This is a very common issue for B2B / Wholesale WooCommerce website managers. In these case scenarios, clients usually need to add to cart multiple variations to cart on the same page, without refreshing it each time.
For example, a clothing wholesale client wishes to order 100 Medium, 150 Large and 50 Small t-shirts without having to switch dropdown/swatch choice, click on 3 add to cart buttons and wasting time.
Thankfully, there are WooCommerce plugins for that. And today I give you a few premium choices.
No matter whether each variation is displayed in a table and has its own add to cart button or there is a single add to cart button for all variations – ordering more products at the same is a breeze!
WooCommerce Quantity Discounts, Rules & Swatches
Thereβs a use case where you may want to add multiple variations to the cart via the same page. Imagine giving bulk discounts on your variable products: users can purchase a higher quantity and receive a small discount in return.Β
By default, WooCommerce only allows you to select 1 variation even if you add a higher quantity to the cart. With the WooCommerce Quantity Discounts, Rules & Swatches plugin from Studio Wombat, you can select separate variations if you select a higher quantity!
WooCommerce Product Table
This plugin works perfectly as a bulk add to cart order form, including quantity selectors and product variations. There is a full overview, demo page and tutorial on this here, but the most important features are:
- Products are listed in a customizable table layout, and each item has a tick box.
- You can create a single listing of all your products with multiple add to cart buttons, or you can create tables listing specific products only (e.g. by category).
- You can show product variations as dropdown lists next to the bulk add to cart boxes.
- Alternatively, each variation can have its own row in the product table with a separate add to cart checkbox for each one.
- There are options to add tables anywhere on your site, or to replace the default layouts.
As you can see, this plugin is full of great features. Here’s a full video tutorial:
WooCommerce Variations to Table
Yes, the great news is that you can immediately turn your single variable product page into a table/grid with one add to cart button for each variation.
It has over 2,300 sales and a very decent 4.3 rating, and it seems the developer is very responsive in regard to support and updates. It simply gets the job done.
Its full features can be found on the Codecanyon Plugin page, but the most interesting are:
- You have the option to enable/disable the table/grid on a per product basis
- You can show the stock levels with custom messages
- You can customize the plugin via filters and actions without the need to touch its core code
WooCommerce Bulk Variation Forms
There is also an official plugin from WooCommerce.com, and this time you can allow your users to add multiple variations to cart from a single form.
It seems this plugin does what it says on the tin. Give it a go and let me know your thoughts in the comments.
Hey Rodolfo
The plugin you mentioned in (1) works but I have found support almost non existnat. As the new version of WordPress and WooCommerce come out I have asked about compatibility and have had nothing back from the developer for almost a month.
Although functionality is good, the suppoty lets it down and I would be careful what you recommend on this basis.
Happy New Year
Good to know Andy, thanks a lot for that π
Why not using grouped product ?
Hey Martin, thanks for your comment! Yes, I guess that could work too, but you’d need to create a brand new product π
Woo variation table plugin can do it also. I use it
Nice suggestion! Thanks Cavid π
It is possible to have only one button to add to the cart
that is, not a button for each variation, but a general one at the end?
Hey Sebastian, thanks for your comment! I don’t think this is possible with these plugins, maybe you need a custom coded functionality for that π
Hi Sebastian,
As the author of plugin #2 “Woocommerce Variations to Table – Grid”, I would like to just let you know that the plugin has a “global” add to cart button at the top or end of the table that can bulk add the variations to the cart.
BR,
Spyros
Do you know if this supports the latest versions of WordPress and Woocommerce ?
Hey Lee, thanks so much for your comment! It should, but ask the plugin developers just in case π
Hey
I am trying this plugin and I have found it picks up the variations and does not sort them. Seems to take the order of the variations in the product detail. I ahve asked the developer about getting it alphabetical but waiting to hear
Cool Andy, let me know how that goes π