Cheaper is not the same as right for your shop.
Acowebs Product Addons is the best value in this category and we are not going to argue with the price: $49 against our $89, with 25 or more field types to our seven. If your shop wants many kinds of simple field cheaply, buy theirs. AddOnBoss is built for the harder half: a size run ordered in one grid, a count held on a single choice, artwork checked before it prints, and a name drawn on your own product photo.
Feature by feature.
Acowebs win the first three rows. Green is there and works well, amber is partial or worth checking for your store.
| Feature | AddOnBoss | Acowebs Product Addons |
|---|---|---|
| Price for one site, per year | –$89. More than Acowebs, and worth being straight about: if price is the deciding factor they win this row. | ✓Around $40 to $50 a year, with a lifetime option. The best value in the category on price alone. |
| Breadth of field types | –Sixteen field types, fourteen of them free. Still fewer than Acowebs, though the gap has closed a good deal. | ✓25+ field types, including a range slider, colour groups, time picker and location selector. |
| Depth of conditional logic | –Single-condition show, hide or reveal, written in plain words. Enough for most shops, less than theirs. | ✓18 condition operators. Genuinely deeper if your configurator has complicated rules. |
| A reusable option-set library, free | ✓Build Colours once and attach it anywhere, in the FREE plugin. Edit it in one place and every product follows. | –Global forms are a Pro feature, so on the free build a form is rebuilt per product. |
| Formula, measurement and look-up pricing | ✓A rate per square metre from typed dimensions, or a width-by-height price table (Pro). | ✓Custom price formulas, measurement-driven pricing and look-up table pricing. Straight parity, and we say so. |
| A whole size run in one grid, priced on the combined total | ✓Every colour by every size in one grid, added as one order, price dropping by band as the WHOLE run grows (Pro). | ✕Not offered. Options are configured per product as form fields. |
| Stock held on a single choice | ✓A count on one option, owned by WooCommerce: one flavour sells out alone, a refund puts it back, nobody oversells (Pro). | –Stock is tracked through product groups, so the count lives on a product rather than on the choice. |
| Live on-image preview | ✓The customer's name or logo drawn on your own product photo as they type, on a print area you set (Pro). | ✕Not part of the plugin. |
| Artwork checked before you print it | ✓An uploaded logo is inspected for resolution and refused or flagged before it reaches your printer (Pro). | –Upload fields collect the file. Inspecting it is not part of it. |
| Shares an engine with a bundles plugin | ✓A set built here is already in BundleBoss. One library, no double render, no double charge with both active. | ✕A standalone options plugin. |
| Track record and review base | ✕New, with few installs and no reviews yet. | ✓Established, widely installed and frequently recommended as the best-value pick. |
Acowebs details from their own product and pricing pages, checked August 2026. They are actively developed and well regarded; prices and feature sets change, so verify anything that matters to you before buying either.
When Acowebs is the better pick.
On price and breadth they beat us, and those are the two things most shops weigh first. At $49 with 25 or more field types and 18 conditional operators, a shop that needs a wide variety of straightforward fields gets more for less by buying theirs, and a range slider, a location selector or a time picker are all things they have and we have not built. Look-up tables, formula pricing and measurement pricing are parity between us, so those are no reason to choose either. AddOnBoss earns its place on the narrower ground: ordering a whole size run in one grid with the price dropping across the combined total, holding stock on an individual choice, checking artwork resolution before it reaches a printer, drawing the customer's name on your own product photo, and having one option library shared with BundleBoss.
Common questions.
Is AddOnBoss a good alternative to Acowebs Product Addons?
It depends on what your shop sells. Acowebs is cheaper and ships far more field types, and for a shop that needs a wide variety of simple fields they are hard to beat on value. AddOnBoss earns its place when the product is priced by a size run, when one choice needs its own stock count, when artwork has to be checked before it reaches a printer, or when you want the customer to see their name on the product photo. Our reusable set library is also in the free build, where theirs is a Pro feature.
Where is Acowebs the better choice?
Price and breadth. At $49 against our $89, with 25 or more field types and 18 conditional operators, they are the stronger buy for a shop that wants many kinds of simple field cheaply. If you need a range slider, a location selector or a time picker, they have those and we do not.
Do you both do look-up table pricing?
Yes, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Formula pricing, measurement-driven pricing and look-up tables are all in both plugins. That whole area is parity, not a reason to pick either one.
What does the free AddOnBoss plugin actually include?
Reusable option sets shown as swatches, buttons or dropdowns, pick-one or pick-several with a least and a most, fourteen field types each optional or required, groups, the ability to refuse individual choices on one product, and every charge joining the cart line through WooCommerce own pricing and tax. Nothing there is held back.
Built for the awkward half.
Size runs, artwork, and stock on a single choice. Free to start, and the set library is free too.