WooCommerce is a great tool, and it allows you to customize your products in a plethora of ways. However, all of that customization still goes in the direction of offering off-the-shelf-products at the end of the day. If you want to enable some client-facing customization or personalization, this is where the trouble starts. There’s nothing built into WooCommerce to handle that. Personalized Product Fields Manager (PPOM) plugin aims to solve this. It lets you insert any of over 30 additional fields for product customization.

This PPOM review takes a deep dive to see what the plugin can do, how to use it and what its main selling points are.

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What PPOM is and why you might need personalized product fields

Under normal circumstances, WooCommerce doesn’t give potential customers much variety when it comes to customizing an upcoming purchase. On the back end, you can add general attributes and variations, and display them. However, you only get the option to use drop-down menus, like this:

What’s more, you can’t personalize the set of product fields any further than this. For extra customization of your product pages, you’ll need something like PPOM.

This plugin lets you display additional custom fields for individual WooCommerce products. In fact, PPOM Pro includes over 30 different field types.

For example, you can add additional variation fields, such as color swatches and palettes, images, extra input fields, radio selectors, checkboxes, and more. This gives your customer a better visual experience and might result in more sales.

In general, PPOM makes a great option for any type of customizable product. For example, if you sell apparel, you can do everything from simply offering better sizing selectors, to going as far as even letting customers customize by adding their own text to be printed on the clothes.

Or, to take it from another angle, with PPOM, WooCommerce becomes a viable platform to use for food ordering. For example, when selling burgers, you can let people select topics, buns, upgrades, and lots more.

Later in this review, we’ll show you how to use 👨‍🔧 the plugin. First though, let’s talk about some of PPOMs standout functionality and how much it costs.

The key features of PPOM

While PPOM is easy to use, it still manages to pack a lot into its feature set. Here’s a quick rundown of the key features of PPOM:

30+ custom field types. With so many field types, you can easily add the customization needed for your product. Some of the 30+ field types include measurement input, color pickers, file uploads, and many more. The free version of the plugin still gives you access to 9 of the most popular fields.

Adjust price based on user inputs. Based on a shopper’s input, you can adjust the price of the product. You can even set up more complex pricing rules, such as generating a price based on the length/width dimensions that a user enters. The simple way to use this would be to add onto the price based on the option selected, like here:

Drag-and-drop form builder. You can use a drag-and-drop interface to set up the custom input form that displays on your product page.
Field rules and validation. You can set min/max conditions and set up other validation rules to make sure customers enter the proper information.
Conditional logic. You get to decide when and where a specific custom field appears on your site. PPOM includes comprehensive conditional logic options within its interface. For example, you can set some fields to appear only if some other fields have been selected beforehand.
Field access conditions. You can make some/all of the custom fields available only to certain users based on their logged in status, user role, or other conditions.
Meta field management. You can also use PPOM to add, import, export, and customize meta fields, too.
Cart editing functionality. PPOM lets customers edit the custom product fields from the cart page also, rather than forcing them to delete and re-add the whole product.
Familiar interface. Last but not least, you’ll use the native WooCommerce interface to add those additional product fields.

How to use PPOM

If you decide to use PPOM Pro, you can get that from the official page here. The free version you can get from the WordPress plugin directory or install it directly from your dashboard.

After you install and activate either version of the plugin, you can go straight to configuring it.

Just go to WooCommerce → PPOM Fields.

Your first task is to create a new meta group. You can do this using the green Add New Group button:

You can pick from a handful of pre-defined group types. They’re quite thought through and categorized to help certain types of businesses out the gate. For example, trying out the Food Customizer is a good idea to get a feel of how this whole thing works. This is what it looks like:

This is what you actually see there:

at the top, there’s the main def section of the group – it’s where you can set the name of the group (useful especially if you have more groups and will be assigning different products to different groups), and set how the final price is going to be calculated for products in the group,
below that, there’s the main section where you get to set fields in the group.

Each field in the group can be one of 30 different types. In most scenarios, the classic set of checkbox, radio, text is still going to be the most useful, though.

When you click to edit any of the fields, you’ll see this:

This is where you get to add all the options you want to have for a product. For this example, since we’re looking at topics for burgers, there’s quite a few.

You’ll also notice that each of those topics has its own price, with two of them being more expensive than others – pepperoni and extra cheese. You basically have complete freedom in how you price each customization option and what impact they will have on the final price.

Also, in case you’re dealing with more serious options that will also have impact on the final weight of the product (which will in turn impact shipping too) then PPOM lets you set how much weight each option adds onto the final thing (you can see the cells for that in the image above).

This level of customization can be great for fine-tuning your offering and making sure that your customers get full freedom in making their purchase fit their needs perfectly while also staying in the boundaries of what’s possible for you as the seller.

Once you save your settings there, you can start using this group when editing products in WooCommerce. For example, when I go to edit my burger, I’ll see this new section:

I can pick my group from there, save the product, and that’s basically it!

From now on, that product will start showing all those options on the product page:

Then, when someone adds it to the cart, they will see all the options they selected in there too:

Overall, I have to admit that the UX is very smooth and everything is super intuitive from the user’s point of view. Nothing to hang yourself on. It’s just a classic WooCommerce interface and buying process.

There’s so much more to PPOM that I can’t cover everything here. However, the documentation provides detail when it comes to the PPOM Repeater, display conditions, and more.

PPOM pricing

As I mentioned before, there is a free version of PPOM available on the WordPress.org plugin directory. This is a great way to get a feel for the plugin and what it can add to your WooCommerce store. And don’t get me wrong, that free version is in no way paywalling the most important functionality of the plugin. You can still get great value out of it and make your store much more customized for your customers.

As for the pro version, you get the following:

Essential, $99 per year, single-site license. Access to all 30+ meta fields. You also get 12 months of updates and support.
Plus, $199 per year, 3-site license. In addition to extra licenses, you’ll also be able to use the meta fields repeater, add in-cart editing functionality, access the Fields Popup option, import/export features to move your config between sites, and create multiple choice purchasing options using the Quantities Pack.
VIP, $399 per year, 50-site license. Alongside all of the goodies in the previous tiers, you can also use the Variation Quantity Matrix and even a Domain Checker.

How to decide whether PPOM is right for you (including pros and cons)

Lots of WooCommerce store owners will see the benefit of using custom fields for products. It’s the only way you can make the experience unique and customizable. As such, consider the answers to the following questions:

Do you offer a wide range of products that have specific requirements: merchandise, for example?
Do the products you want to offer benefit from customization? Custom stickers, clothing, greetings cards, and more all require some form of unique customization.
Is it important that your customers have an interactive visual and user experience that matches the rest of your site?

If you answer “Yes” to the majority of these, PPOM is likely a good fit for you. However, if you’re still on the fence, we have a quick list of pros and cons for you to look at:

Pros 👍

A wide range of valuable and fantastic field options.

Simple implementation within the WordPress dashboard.

You won’t need to code to use any of PPOMs functionality.

You can set up more advanced pricing and display rules if needed.

Cons 👎

Beginners to WooCommerce will need to study the documentation.

On the whole, you’ll need to decide whether any plugin you choose will benefit your site and customers. In this PPOM review, you have all of the information you’ll need to make the best decision for your store.

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Adding extra fields to your WooCommerce products can help to create unique experiences for customers.

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With the Personalized Product Fields Manager Pro plugin, you can insert over 30 fields to create a unique product page that contains pricing sliders, color swatches, repeating fields, forms, and more. Even better, a one-site license is only $99 per year and the free version of the plugin is actually more than functional.

So, if you want to try it out, indeed start with the free version. Then, purchase the premium version to unlock the full flexibility of PPOM, including all 30+ field types.

Do you have any questions about what I covered in this PPOM review? Ask away in the comments section below!