A complete free tier, and sets you build once.
Advanced Product Fields (WAPF) is a solid form builder. AddOnBoss gives you more before you pay and more when you do: priced choices and colour swatches in the free plugin, then artwork upload, a live photo preview, a whole size run in one grid and stock on a single choice, all in one $89 Pro plan.
From $89 a year · 30-day money-back · No card for the trial
Feature by feature.
WAPF is genuinely good, so this is close. Green is there and works well, amber is partial or worth checking for your store.
| Feature | AddOnBoss | Advanced Product Fields |
|---|---|---|
| What you pay for uploads and a live preview | ✓$89 a year. AddOnBoss Pro includes artwork upload, the live photo preview, the size-run grid and stock per choice. | –$118 a year: Pro at $69 has file upload, and the Live Content Preview add-on is $49 more. Their Extended + Addons plan, $149, includes both.Source: studiowombat.com/plugin/live-content-preview-add-on |
| What the free version charges for | ✓Every choice and field can carry a charge, once or for each item, with swatches and reusable option sets, all free. | –Their readme: the free version "only allows you to add an extra flat fee", with no file upload, no swatches, and no fields on separate variations.Source: wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-product-fields-for-woocommerce |
| Conditional logic | ✓Show or hide a question by an earlier answer, free, with no limit on rules. Rules that compare a number, such as is more than, are in Pro. | ✓Conditional logic, one of WAPF’s strengths.Source: wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-product-fields-for-woocommerce |
| Fast product pages (no variation bloat) | ✓Options stay on one simple product; the page stays light. | ✓Also adds fields to one product rather than creating variations.Source: wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-product-fields-for-woocommerce |
| Personalisation pricing (per character, per unit) | ✓Charge a name or engraving once or for each item, free; per character or per unit entered in Pro. | ✓A flat fee in the free version. Quantity-based, percentage, value-based and character-length pricing, plus formulas, in premium.Source: wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-product-fields-for-woocommerce |
| Colour and image swatches | ✓Swatch, button and dropdown types in the free plugin, with a photo per choice in Pro. | –Image, colour and text swatches in premium. None in the free version.Source: studiowombat.com/plugin/advanced-product-fields-for-woocommerce |
| One set of options reused across many products | ✓A set is an object in its own right. Build Colours once, attach it anywhere, edit it in one place and every product follows. | ✓Field groups attach to many products: by product rules in the free version, and by name, variation, category or tag in premium.Source: studiowombat.com/plugin/advanced-product-fields-for-woocommerce |
| A whole size run ordered in one grid | ✓Every colour by every size in one grid, added as one order, with the price dropping by quantity band as the run grows (Pro). | ✕Options are configured per product as form fields, not as a size-run order grid.Source: studiowombat.com/plugin/advanced-product-fields-for-woocommerce |
| Stock held on a single choice | ✓Put a count on one option and WooCommerce owns it: one flavour sells out on its own, a refund puts it back, nobody oversells (Pro). | –Other products can be offered as options, with their stock (premium), so the count lives on a product rather than on the choice.Source: studiowombat.com/plugin/advanced-product-fields-for-woocommerce |
| Artwork checked, and previewed on the product photo | ✓An uploaded logo is checked for print resolution before it reaches your printer, and the customer's name or logo is drawn on your own product photo as they type. Both in AddOnBoss Pro. | –Live Content Preview and Image Upload are add-ons, sold on their own or in the Extended + Addons plan. Image Upload sets a minimum image size and can resize or crop; a print resolution check is not listed.Source: studiowombat.com/advanced-product-fields-addons |
| Shares an engine with a bundles plugin | ✓A set you build works in BundleBoss too. Bundles and options never fight in the cart. | ✕A standalone options plugin. |
| Field types and measured pricing | ✓Sixteen field types, fourteen of them free. In Pro, a size the customer types is priced by your rate, set-up charge and minimum, or from a width-by-height price table you paste from a spreadsheet. | ✓16 field types in Pro and 20 in Extended, with formula and lookup-table pricing.Source: studiowombat.com/plugin/advanced-product-fields-for-woocommerce |
WAPF details from its WordPress.org listing and readme and from Studio Wombat’s own pages, checked 29 October 2026, with the source named on each row. Prices are Studio Wombat's own for one site, yearly, before VAT, checked the same day, in the currency you pick. It is actively developed and well rated; feature sets change, so verify anything that matters to you.
Why shops choose AddOnBoss.
More of the job is done before you pay: every choice can carry a price and show as a colour swatch in the free plugin. When you go Pro, one $89 plan covers artwork upload, a live preview on your own product photo, a whole size run in one grid and stock on a single choice, the things WAPF sells as an add-on or does not offer. If your options are priced, printed or counted, start with AddOnBoss.
Common questions.
Is AddOnBoss a good alternative to Advanced Product Fields (WAPF)?
Yes, especially if your options cost money. AddOnBoss free charges for every choice and shows colour swatches; WAPF free allows a flat fee only and keeps swatches for premium. AddOnBoss Pro then includes artwork upload and a live photo preview at $89 a year, where WAPF Pro with its Live Content Preview add-on is $118, and adds a whole size run in one grid and stock on a single choice.
Which works with variable products?
Both, at a price. AddOnBoss Pro shows options alongside a product's variations. WAPF's free version cannot add fields to separate variations; that is in its premium plans.
Which suits made-to-measure products like signs and blinds?
Both can, in their paid versions, in different ways. AddOnBoss Pro prices by the size a customer types, per square metre or per metre, with a set-up charge and a minimum if you need them. Or it prices from your own width-by-height price table, pasted straight from a spreadsheet. WAPF premium uses formula and lookup-table pricing. Pick the one that matches how you already price.
Can I use AddOnBoss with BundleBoss?
Yes. They share one options engine, so a set you build in AddOnBoss is already there in BundleBoss, and bundles and options never charge twice in the cart.
Build a set once, use it everywhere.
Free to start, correct in the cart, and part of a family that also does bundles and build-a-box on one engine.