Show it on a product, a category, the whole shop or a page

One configurator can sell on one product, on every product in some categories, on every product in the shop, or on any page, the homepage included, with no product behind it. This page shows each, and which one wins when two apply.

• On one product
• On categories or the whole shop
• Which one wins
• On any page or the homepage
• Several pieces at once

On one product

Open the product, then Product data, General. The Configurator list has three kinds of choice:

• Automatic: the one set for its category or the whole shop, if there is one. This is what every product starts on.
• None: the normal Add to cart, even if a category or shop rule would add a configurator.
• A named configurator: always this one, whatever the categories say.

A configurator still in draft shows in the list as “draft, not shown yet”, so you can set up the product before it goes live.

ConfigKit works on simple products. A variable product keeps its own variations and never gets a configurator, not even from a category or shop rule. The configurator does the job variations do, with any number of choices, so make the product simple and put the choices in the configurator.

On categories or the whole shop

In the builder, click Price and settings, then the Where tab. On products lists the products that chose this configurator themselves. Under On categories, tick the product categories it covers (their sub-categories come with them), or switch on Every product in the shop. Save it live and every product those rules reach gets the configurator, without opening each product.

Which one wins

1. A configurator named on the product itself (or None).
2. Otherwise the rule for the product’s deepest category: a configurator for “Outdoor banners” beats one for its parent “Banners”.
3. Otherwise the one set for every product in the shop.

When two live configurators are set for the same category, or both for the whole shop, the older one wins.

On any page or the homepage

WooCommerce needs a product for every basket line, so the first time a configurator is used on a page, ConfigKit makes a hidden product for it. You never need to touch it: it is hidden from the shop and from search, its own page sends visitors to the shop, it is left out of sitemaps (WordPress, Yoast and Rank Math), and it cannot be added to the basket without the configurator’s choices. Orders show the configurator’s name on the line.

After a good add from a page, the customer goes to the basket, and the basket line links back to the page they came from.

Several pieces at once

In Price and settings, Selling, switch on “Customers can set up several pieces and add them together”. An Add another piece button then shows next to the buy button: the finished piece goes into a list, Pieces ready to add, with Change and Remove, and the form starts again. When the customer adds to the basket, every piece goes in together, each on its own line with its own price. If one piece is not right, none are added, so the basket never holds half an order. Up to 50 pieces at a time.