AddOnBoss documentation

AddOnBoss puts options, fields, add-ons and personalisation on any WooCommerce product. New here? Start with Install & your first option set, then pick what you need.

AddOnBoss shares its option sets with BundleBoss. A set you build in one is ready in the other. What a customer picks shows in the cart, on the order and in the confirmation email.

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Install & your first option set

From a plain product to one that offers colours, sizes and a personalisation field, in a few steps.

Option sets

Build a list of choices once, with a price per option, and reuse it across every product.

Attach options to a product

Give a simple product colours and sizes shoppers pick like variations, with none of the variation admin.

Colour swatches

Show colour circles instead of text, set once or filled in from the colour name.

Custom fields

A name to print, a message, a number, a tick box, a dropdown, each optional or required, each able to carry a charge.

Date field with rush pricing

A shopper picks the date they need it. Your preparation time and closed days set the free date; days sooner carry a charge.

File & artwork uploads

Collect a logo or a print-ready design on the product page, with a template to download and fill in.

Print areas

Let a customer choose where their design goes, front, back or sleeve, each area priced its own way.

Sell by measured size

Price by the metre or the square metre for anything cut to size: banners, fabric, worktops.

Price from a look-up table

Price a made-to-measure product from the grid you already work from, widths against drops, with your margin on top.

Option photos

A colour chip shows the garment in that colour and swaps the main image. Suggest photos matches them for you.

Conditional options

Show or hide a set or a field depending on an earlier answer, so the page stays short and clear.

Ask a field more than once

A name for each of the six shirts, or an engraving line the shopper adds on demand. Each one priced and listed separately.

How the page looks

Lay the questions out one after another, folded, or one at a time. Add numbers, a review or a photo that stays in view.

Folding sections

A long product page reads as a handful of headings, and a section holding a required question never hides.

Step by step

One section on the screen at a time, with a rail that shows how far there is to go.

Stock on a single choice

Hold a count on one option, so one flavour sells out on its own while the rest stay on sale.

Options on variable products

Keep variations for the choices that need their own SKU and add option sets as priced extras on top.

Rebuild a variable product as options

Turn a variable product into a draft copy with option sets. Check it, then let it take the original's place.

Quantity grid

Order every colour and size in one go by typing into a grid, instead of adding one at a time.

Pricing & fees

How each choice and field adds to the price, once or per item or per letter, and how tax follows your shop settings.

Cart, checkout & orders

Picks and fields land on the cart line, the order and the confirmation email, named the way the customer chose them.

Edit options from the cart

A wrong size or a misspelt name is corrected in place: the product reopens with every choice filled in, ready to update.

Shop filters

Let your shop's Colour and Size filters find products by the colours and sizes they sell through AddOnBoss.

Import & export sets

Move your option sets, or whole product setups, between shops. For staging sites and agency work.

Appearance & colours

Calm defaults that suit any store, your theme's palette where it publishes one, and a Colours screen for the rest.

Troubleshooting

Common questions and quick fixes when something is not behaving.

What AddOnBoss is for

A WooCommerce product is either simple or variable. A simple product has one price and one Add to cart button. A variable product has a fixed set of variations, each made and stocked one by one.

Neither fits a product the customer designs. Think of a shirt in twelve colours and seven sizes, a mug with a name on it, or a banner cut to size.

AddOnBoss fills that gap. You attach choices, fields and uploads to a plain product. The customer picks on the product’s own page, and the price follows each pick. No variations are made. A choice that can run out still holds its own stock count.

Every price is worked out on the server from your saved settings, never from what the browser sends. Every figure follows your shop’s tax display setting.