Guides
Guides for shops that sell personalized products
How to take a customer’s name, show it on the product and print it, and how the WooCommerce plugins for it compare. Written for shop owners, by the maker of Pomp Product Personalizer.
How to
How to let customers put their own name on a product
The three ways shops do it, what a print-ready file has to be, and four things worth checking before you pick any plugin.
How to add a custom text field to a WooCommerce product
Three ways to put a text box on the product page, from free plugins to twenty lines of code, and what each one leaves you to do by hand.
Custom name on a jersey, a hat or a backpack
What shoppers search for, from jerseys and caps to watches, bottles and onesies, and what each one asks of the shop that sells it.
One design on every product: print placement and warp
Print area, rotation, colour per variation, line by line layout, and a warp grid that bends the preview around a mug or a cap.
Personalized hoodies: print placement and the drawstrings
Where a hoodie can be printed, how big, and how an overlay puts the name under the drawstrings in every preview, as it will be on the real thing.
Selling engraved products in WooCommerce
Cutting boards, tumblers, leather and watches: taking the name, showing it honestly, and getting a file the laser can use without retyping.
WooCommerce product customizer or t-shirt designer: how to choose
Four kinds of plugin sell under the same few words. What each one does, which shops it suits, and what to check before you pay for one.
Comparisons
The best WooCommerce product personalizer plugins
Designers, personalizers, configurators and add-ons, sorted by the shop each one suits rather than ranked on one list, with what each costs.
Pomp vs Zakeke
A hosted 3D designer with monthly plans, a fee per sale and no free plan, against a free, self-hosted personalizer. Why Pomp suits most shops.
Pomp vs Fancy Product Designer
A canvas designer bought on CodeCanyon, against a free personalizer that also takes the customer’s own text and finished artwork. Why Pomp suits most shops.
Pomp vs product add-ons plugins
WooCommerce Product Add-Ons, Advanced Product Fields and PPOM take the name as text. When that is enough, and when the customer needs to see it.
Setting the plugin up? The manual covers every setting, and the demo shop runs it from catalogue to print file.