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Measure and Price for WooCommerce

Sell by the metre, square metre, kilogram or litre. Customers type how much they need and see packs, coverage and price before they add to cart.

Read the five-minute guide

Free, and coming soon to WordPress.org. No account, no upsell banners, nothing sent anywhere.

Made for shops that sell by amount

Flooring and tiles by the square metre. Fabric, rope, cable and timber by the metre. Cheese, coffee and seed by the kilogram. Paint and oil by the litre. Anything where the customer knows how much they need and the shop sells it in packs, cuts or whole units.

What your customer sees

A product page with the amount field and the summary

One field asks how much they need. As they type, one sentence tells them what they will get, how much it covers and what it costs. If the amount rounds up to the next pack, the page says so in plain words before they add it:

As the customer sees it

5 packs, 12.5 m², £312.40.

12.3 m² rounds up to the next pack. Each pack is £62.48.

The basket, with the amount under the product name

The amount follows the product into the basket, through checkout, onto the order and into the emails.

The Product data box with the new Sold by tab

Set up in five minutes

Open a product

There is a new tab in the Product data box called Sold by.

Say what it is sold by

Length, area, weight or volume, the unit your price is for, and the smallest amount you sell, such as 2.5 m² packs or 0.1 m cuts. Every field explains itself.

Enter the price

The price label on the General tab now says what the price is per.

That is the whole setup. The getting-started guide walks through it with pictures.

Everything a shop needs

Metric and imperial

Price in m² and let customers enter square feet, or the other way round. Show the equivalent in the other system next to their amount.

Length and width

For floors, walls and windows, customers can enter two sizes and the plugin multiplies.

Packs, cuts and whole units

Sell in 2.5 m² packs, 10 cm cuts or whole kilograms. Amounts round up to the next step, never down, and the rounding is always explained.

Waste allowance

A tick box, “Add 10% for cuts and waste”, ticked by default. Customers can untick it and see the difference.

Minimum and maximum

Refuse an order below a metre or above a roll, with a message that says why.

Price per pack or per unit

Think in packs? Enter the pack price and the plugin shows the price per m² for you.

Variable products

Each variation’s price is its price per unit.

Weight for shipping

Set the weight per unit and weight-based shipping stays right.

Price per unit in shop lists

“£24.99 / m²” in the shop and on the product page.

Built to stay out of the way

  • Orders always contain a whole number of packs at a normal price. Every payment gateway, shipping method, stock count, refund and report keeps working.
  • Prices are recalculated on the server. Nothing in the browser can lower a price.
  • The field and the summary inherit your theme. No styling to fight.
  • Works with the classic and the block cart and checkout, and with high-performance order storage.
  • No admin notices, no upsell banners, no data sent anywhere.
  • Page builders: the calculator appears through WooCommerce’s own add-to-cart hook. If your template bypasses it, a shortcode and a block put it where you want it.

How the sums work

Each pack has one price, rounded to the penny, and the total is packs times that price. £24.99 per m² in 2.5 m² packs is £62.48 a pack, so five packs are £312.40. The page shows the pack price so the customer can check it, and the order records the amount, the packs and the pack price.

Packs, steps and rounding shows every step of the arithmetic.

Questions

Does it work with my theme?

It has been checked on Storefront, Astra, Kadence, GeneratePress, Twenty Twenty-Five and with Elementor. It uses WooCommerce’s standard hooks, which nearly every theme honours. Page builders and custom templates covers the exceptions.

How is stock counted?

In packs or steps. With 2.5 m² packs, a stock of 40 means 40 packs. The Sold by tab says so next to the fields.

Can a customer change the price by editing the page?

No. The price is worked out again on the server when the product is added and again at checkout.

Does it handle tax?

WooCommerce’s own tax settings apply to the pack price as they would to any product.

Is it really free?

Yes. Everything on this page is free and stays free, with no limits on products or sites. Measure and Price Pro adds made-to-measure pricing, price lists and settings per variation and category; see below.

Measure and Price Pro

Selling made to measure, or in bulk?

Pro is the same plugin with more in it: install it and it takes over from the free version with every setting kept.

One site
£79
Five sites
£149
Twenty-five sites
£249

Prices are a year.

Read about Pro
The Pro guides

In both

Free and Pro comparedFreePro
Sell by length, area, weight or volume
Packs, cuts and whole units
Metric and imperial
Length and width
Waste allowance
Minimum and maximum
Variable products
Price per unit in shop lists

Pro adds

Made to measure
Blinds, glass, rugs, poles cut to length: the customer types a size, two or just one, and the price comes from a grid you type or paste in, with a Try a size box so you see exactly what they will pay. “From £24” in the shop.
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Price lists
Cheaper per metre or square metre from 20 m², cheaper again from 100 m². The page says where prices drop.
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Per variation and per category
A variation can have its own steps, minimum or grid; a category can carry settings for every product in it. Each place says in one line where its settings come from.
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Shared grids and lists
One grid, many products, by name, with nothing edited by accident.
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Cutting fees and minimum charges
Said to the customer before they add.
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Spreadsheets
Every setting travels in WooCommerce’s own product export and import.
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Support

Where to ask
Free: the support forum, answered within one working day. Pro: priority support by email, one working day.

Support

Ask on the plugin’s support forum and we reply within one working day. Say which theme you use and link to the product page; that helps more than anything.

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