Smart Add-Ons 1.0 Released: What Actually Shipped

Smart Add-Ons 1.0 shipped in July 2026 as a complete rebuild of what a WooCommerce add-on plugin should do by default: options that price correctly on every screen a shopper sees, checkout support that works with WooCommerce Blocks, and a licensing system that activates in one paste. This is what’s actually in the first release, not a roadmap of what’s coming.

Smart Add-Ons 1.0: the add-on builder

Seven field types cover most of what a customisable product needs: checkbox, radio, dropdown, text, image select, date, and file upload. Each group can target a specific product, a whole category, or the entire store, and groups stack — a product can show a global group, a category group, and its own product-specific group at once, ordered by a display priority you set.

Fields support validation rules — length limits, format checks, custom patterns — and can be marked required, so an order can’t reach your queue with an answer it needs and doesn’t have. See the validation guide for the specifics.

Pricing, with a live preview

Options price as a flat fee, a percentage of the product price, or per quantity, and the total updates on the product page as a shopper chooses — calculated on the server, using the same logic that prices the cart, so the number a shopper sees can’t drift from what they’re actually charged. See the live price preview guide for how that’s kept accurate.

Conditional logic and validation

Fields can be shown or hidden based on an earlier answer, so a group only asks what currently applies — see the conditional logic guide. Cart validation re-checks every rule on the server before an item is added, so what a shopper submits in the browser is confirmed rather than trusted.

Cart, checkout, and WooCommerce Blocks

Add-on selections carry through the classic cart and the newer WooCommerce Cart and Checkout blocks, via the Store API — see the block theme guide for what that means on a block-built product page.

Revenue analytics in Smart Add-Ons 1.0

A dashboard shows views, selections, orders and revenue per add-on field over the last 30 days, counting only paid orders and reversing figures when an order is cancelled or refunded — see the analytics guide.

Licensing

A license activates by pasting an ADDF key under Smart Add-Ons → License. Your add-ons keep running on your storefront independently of license status, so a missed license check never takes them offline.

A/B testing and AI suggestions — Pro and above

Two Pro-plan features round out the release. A/B testing runs two variants of a group against each other and reports views, selections and revenue for each. AI upsell suggestions propose add-on ideas for a specific product, which you review and add — nothing is created automatically.

Checking which version you have

Go to Plugins in your WordPress admin and find Smart Add-Ons in the list — the version number is printed directly under the plugin name. If an update is available, WordPress shows it there too, the same as any other plugin.

Why a 1.0 release, not a string of smaller ones

Smart Add-Ons 1.0 shipped as one coherent release rather than a bare-minimum plugin followed by features bolted on later. Pricing, validation, block checkout support, and licensing were built to work together from the start — a formula-priced field validates the same way a fixed-price one does, and the live preview, the cart, and the analytics dashboard all read from the same stored data rather than three separate implementations that could drift apart. That’s a deliberate trade: fewer releases early on, in exchange for fewer surprises once a store is relying on it for real orders.

Getting started with 1.0

If you’re installing it for the first time, the first week checklist walks through activation, your first group, pricing, styling, and a test order in order. The product page has the full feature list and plan comparison, and WooCommerce’s own order management guide (opens in new tab) covers what happens after an order with add-ons lands in your store.