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Made-to-measure pricing in WooCommerce

The customer types a width and a height, and the price follows. Per square metre, or straight from the price list you already work from. One product, no variations.

Two ways to price by size

A product page offering three ready-made banner sizes with prices, 100 × 50 cm £15.00, 200 × 100 cm £24.00 and 300 × 130 cm £46.80, and a Custom size where 250 × 120 cm has been typed, showing £36.00 for this size.
1 · A rate

So much per metre, per square metre or per cubic metre. Above, 250 × 120 cm is 3 m² at £12: £36.00.

Use it when your price really is a rate, and should be exact at every size.

BannersVinylFabric by the metreWorktopsRope
A roller blind with Width 120 cm and Drop 150 cm picked from rows of size buttons, priced at £64.00.
2 · Your price list

Widths down one side, drops or heights across the other, your price in every box. Above, 120 cm wide by 150 cm drop: £64.00. Try it on the demo

Use it when you price from a sheet, prices step in bands, or a supplier gave you the grid.

BlindsGlassAcrylic and dibond signsFrames

Try the maths

This is the rule AddOnBoss uses for a rate: area times the rate, and never below the minimum. Set here to the banner above, £12 per m² with a £15 minimum.

Area3.00 m²
Price£36.00

3.00 m² × £12

Set up a rate

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  1. Go to BossMage, then Option sets, and press + New set. Under What kind of set?, press Start blank on the Measured size card.

    Or press or use a template to start from a ready-made set.

  2. Name the set, then name what customers measure and pick a unit for each.

    Width and Height price by area. One measurement prices by length, three by volume. Units can be mm, cm, m, in or ft.

  3. Type the smallest and largest size you make.

    A size outside them cannot be ordered, so nobody buys a size you cannot make. Customers can type any whole unit. Press Change to allow only steps, such as steps of 10.

  4. Under Price, choose per m² and type your rate. Then type a minimum price.

    The minimum is a floor, not an extra. Charge set-up or edging too? Press + Add a part. The bar under the parts prices a sample size as you type.

    The measured size editor for a set named Guide banner size. Size has Width and Height in cm, smallest 30, largest 500, and the line Customers can type any whole cm, with Change. Price has one part, Banner, per m², £12, and a minimum price of £15. The bar under it reads 100 × 50 cm £15.00: £6.00 banner, 0.5 m² × £12.00, plus £9.00 to reach your minimum.

  5. Add ready-made sizes for your popular ones, press Save set, then attach the set on the product's Product options tab.

    Each size is priced from your rate unless you type a price of its own. Tick Customers can type their own size, and Custom size sits beside them for everything else.

Or set up your price list

  1. Press + New set, then Start blank on the Price table card. Under Priced by, choose Two things, like width and drop.

  2. Name what goes down the side and across the top, such as Height and Width. Then type your price in each box.

    Add a row or a column for each size you sell. An empty box is a size you do not make. Already have a sheet? Press Paste from a spreadsheet. Customers pick Width first. Press Swap to ask the other one first.

    The price table editor. Under Priced by, Two things, like width and drop is chosen, with Height down the side, Width across the top, and the line Customers pick Width, then Height, with Swap. The grid: 300mm by 400mm costs 18, by 800mm 24; 600mm by 400mm costs 24, by 800mm 40. Under it are + Add a row, + Add a column, Paste from a spreadsheet and a minimum price.

  3. Under Customers, choose how they pick: tap a button, choose from a dropdown, or type a measurement that is matched to your grid.

    With a typed size, you choose what happens between two sizes: round up, round down, go to the nearest, or match exactly.

    The Customers section with three cards: Tap a button, one button per label, best for a short list, which is chosen; Choose from a dropdown, one dropdown for each, shorter on a phone; and Type a measurement, customers type a size, and it is matched to your grid.

  4. Choose whether the table sets the whole price or adds to the product's price. Press Save set, then attach the set to the product.

Before you publish

  • Order your smallest size, your largest and one typical one, and check each price.
  • On a price table, type a size that falls between two rows and check which price it takes.
  • Try a size just under your minimum, and one just outside your limits.
  • Place a test order and read the size on the order, the way your workshop will see it.
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Common questions

Can WooCommerce price a product by its size without a plugin?

Only for a fixed list. Core WooCommerce can give each variation its own price, so Small, Medium and Large can cost different amounts, but it cannot work out a price from a width and height the customer types. That needs a measurement pricing feature.

Can I price per square foot instead of per square metre?

Yes. Measure in feet or inches and the rate is charged per sq ft. You can also price in millimetres and let customers type their size in feet or inches: they pay the same either way, and the order shows the size the way they typed it, such as 8 × 4 ft.

What happens when a customer types a size between two rows of my price table?

You choose for each measurement: round up to the next size, which never prices a piece as smaller than it is, round down, go to the nearest, or match a size exactly. A size bigger than your largest cannot be ordered, so it is never guessed.

Can the second axis be a material instead of a size?

Yes. A table can be panel size by thickness, or size by material, so a 10 mm sheet costs what it really costs at every size instead of carrying one flat surcharge.

Is made-to-measure pricing free?

It is part of AddOnBoss Pro, which has a 14-day free trial with no card needed. The free AddOnBoss on WordPress.org covers fixed choices, extras and personalisation priced by WooCommerce.

Every setting: measured sizing and price tables in the documentation. See more on the acrylic sign, priced by size and thickness. Or start earlier: add product options without variations.