Inputo - Name Your Price for WooCommerce Free documentation

Inputo turns any simple WooCommerce product, or any single variation of a variable product, into a pay what you want product. You decide the lowest amount you accept and the amount you suggest, and your customers type the price they want to pay. It suits digital downloads, donations, courses, artwork, tickets, tips and anything else where a flexible price makes sense.

Every named price product has four amounts: a minimum, a suggested, a generous and an optional maximum amount. You can type them on each product, or let Inputo work them out from the product's regular price using shop wide percentages. On the product page, customers see a price box with optional plus and minus buttons and a price meter. The meter fills as they type and thanks them with messages you write yourself.

The amount is checked in the browser and again on the server: when the product is added, each time the cart is checked and before checkout. It works with classic and block themes, the classic and block cart and checkout, and High Performance Order Storage. The plugin makes no requests to external services.

Inputo is a free plugin from WordPress.org. It needs WooCommerce, so install and activate WooCommerce first.

Go to Inputo > General to decide how much customers can pay and how the price box behaves. These settings apply to your whole shop.

Price guide

When a product has no amounts of its own, Inputo works them out from its regular price using these percentages. For example, a product with a regular price of 20 and a Suggested price of 100 percent suggests 20. With the factory percentages of 50, 100 and 150, that product accepts anything from 10, suggests 20 and calls 30 or more generous.

Amounts typed on a product always win over these percentages.

Price box behaviour

Choose what the price field holds when the page loads, and whether to show plus and minus buttons. When the buttons are on, Button step sets how much each press adds or takes away.

Cart and orders

Turn on Show the chosen price in the cart to add a line under the item in the cart and checkout. The line uses the Cart line label wording from Text and messages.

Advanced

Remove data when deleted removes the plugin's settings and product amounts when you delete the plugin. Orders are never touched.

Live preview and saving

The Live preview on the right shows a sample product. Type a price there to try your settings. Changes show in the preview at once, but they only reach your shop when you click Save changes. The bar at the bottom says You have unsaved changes until you save, then All changes saved.

Go to Inputo > Display to choose how named price products look on the product page and in your shop lists.

Product page

1. Under Price under the title, choose what replaces the usual price near the product title: the suggested price, a "from" price based on the minimum, the regular price, or nothing.
2. Pick a Price box style. Card stands out on the page. Minimal blends in with your theme.
3. Set an Accent colour for the field outline, the meter and the buttons.
4. Optionally type your own Add to cart button text. Leave it empty to keep your theme's wording.
5. Turn the suggested price line, the minimum and maximum line and the price meter on or off.

Shop, category and search pages

A named price product cannot be added to the cart straight from a list, because the customer has not chosen a price yet. Its button always opens the product page. Choose what shows as the price in lists, and the text of that button.

Click Save changes when you are done.

Go to Inputo > Text and messages to change every word your customers see. Use {price}, {min} and {max} where the help text says so. They are replaced with the formatted amount.

Labels

Set the heading above the price field, the suggested price line, the "from" line used in price displays, the minimum and maximum hints under the field, and the label of the chosen price in the cart.

Price meter

The meter has three levels:

• Low runs from the minimum to the suggested price.
• Fair runs from the suggested to the generous price.
• Generous is anything above that.

Give each level a name and a message. Keep the low message warm. Leave it empty to show nothing.

Error messages

These messages appear when the amount is missing, is not a number, is below the minimum or is above the maximum. The product is not added to the cart until the customer fixes the amount.

Go to Inputo > Documentation for a guide inside your admin. It covers getting started, how the price guide works, variable products, what customers see, cart and orders, tax, every setting with its default, changing the look, notes for developers and troubleshooting.

Type in Search the documentation at the top of the side menu to filter the guide. If nothing matches, it says Nothing in the documentation matches that search. Each settings part has an Open these settings link that takes you to that screen.

Each product gets its own Name your price tab in the Product data box. It shows for simple products and variable products.

Simple products

1. Go to Products and edit a simple product, or create one.
2. In the Product data box, open the Name your price tab.
3. Turn on Name your price ("Let customers choose what they pay for this product").
4. Leave any amount empty to work it out from the regular price using your default percentages, or type your own Minimum price, Suggested price, Generous price and Maximum price. The empty fields show a hint with the amount they will use. The Default percentages link opens the General screen.
5. Click Update and view the product.

The regular price may be left empty too. Without one, type the amounts on the product itself. If the minimum is also empty, any amount above zero is accepted.

Letting people pay nothing

Type 0 as the minimum on the product, or set the Minimum price percentage that applies to it to 0. Only a minimum of exactly zero allows a free order line. An empty field never does.

Amounts are tidied

The suggested amount is never below the minimum, the generous amount is never below the suggestion, and nothing is above the maximum. A maximum lower than the minimum is ignored.

In the product list

Under Products, a Named price column shows each named price product's minimum, suggested and maximum amounts (or "Any amount above zero" when there is no minimum). For variable products it shows how many variations take a named price. Hide the column under Screen Options if you do not need it. Use the Any price type filter above the list to show only Named price or Fixed price products.

For a variable product you switch on a named price per variation. On the Name your price tab of a variable product you see the note Set a named price per variation. and a count such as "2 of 4 variations take a named price".

1. Edit the variable product and open the Variations tab.
2. Expand a variation and tick Name your price in its header, next to Enabled and Virtual.
3. Optionally type amounts in the Name your price fields under the pricing fields: Minimum price, Suggested price, Generous price and Maximum price. Leave any amount empty to work it out from this variation's regular price.
4. Click Save changes.

Some variations can have a named price while others keep a fixed price. The price box appears only when the customer picks a named price variation. With a mix, the product keeps the usual price range in lists.

On block themes, the product page uses the Add to Cart with Options block. The price box sits inside it and follows the variation the customer picks there.

The amount the customer chooses becomes the unit price in the cart, so quantity, coupons, tax and shipping work as usual. Two different amounts for the same product become two cart lines.

• Show the chosen price in the cart (on the General screen) adds a line under the item, labelled with your Cart line label.
• Every time the cart is checked, each named price item is checked again against the product's current limits.
• If you switch a named price off, the product goes back to its own price in carts that already hold it.
• Coupons work as usual, so a coupon can take a line below the minimum. Leave named price products out of a coupon if that matters to you.

On the order

Each order line records the amount the customer chose and the suggested price at that moment. On the order screen you see a line under the item: Price named by the customer: the amount, then suggested and the suggested amount. When a customer orders again from their account page, the same amount comes back.

Tax

The amount a customer types is read the way your shop shows prices. If your shop shows prices including tax, the typed amount includes tax too, even when you enter product prices without tax. The cart line then matches what the customer typed. Your minimum, suggested, generous and maximum amounts are entered like any product price.

On a named price product page, shoppers see a price box above the Add to cart button. Depending on your Display settings it holds:

• The Field label heading and a field for the amount with the currency symbol.
• Plus and minus buttons that nudge the amount by your Button step. The arrow keys work too.
• The suggested price line, and the minimum and maximum under the field.
• The price meter, which fills as the amount grows and shows the low, fair or generous message.

Customers can type any number format, for example 12.50, 12,50 or 1.250,00. If the amount is missing, unreadable, too low or too high, the box says so in plain words and the product is not added.

In shop, category, search and related product lists, a named price product shows your chosen price wording and a button (by default Name your price) that opens the product page. In the cart and checkout, the chosen price can show under the item.

The price box is accessible: the field has a real label, messages are announced to screen readers as they change, and animation stops for visitors who prefer reduced motion.