Let shoppers clear their cart with one click, or save multiple named carts and restore them anytime
We just released WPGenie Save & Clear Cart for WooCommerce, a new free plugin that gives your customers more control over their shopping cart.
With one click, shoppers can empty the entire cart instead of removing products one by one. They can also save their current selection as a named cart, start a new one, and come back to any saved cart later. Both registered customers and guests can save multiple carts, each with all product details, quantities, and attributes.
Clear Cart and Save Cart buttons on the WooCommerce cart page
Use Cases
Repeat orders, such as monthly supplies customers buy regularly
Separate shopping lists, for example office hardware and personal purchases
Planning ahead, like putting together a list of birthday gifts
Starting over without losing the current selection
How It Works
The plugin adds Clear Cart and Save Cart buttons to the WooCommerce cart page. Clear Cart shows a confirmation dialog before emptying the cart, so nothing gets removed by accident.
Save Cart lets customers name their current cart and store it. They can save as many carts as they need and manage each one separately. Saved carts are listed in a new Saved Carts section in My Account and below the cart table, where customers can review the items and restore any cart.
When restoring, the saved cart can replace the active cart or merge with it. You choose whether customers decide each time, or whether the store always replaces or always merges.
Guests can save carts during their browsing session. Once they log in or register, their saved carts move to their account automatically.
Naming a cart before saving it for later
Confirmation dialog before clearing the cart
Multiple saved carts in WooCommerce My Account
Choosing to replace or merge when restoring a saved cart
Customization
Button labels and colors (background, text, and border) are set in WooCommerce > Settings > Save & Clear Cart, without custom CSS. Two shortcodes let you place the buttons or the saved carts table on any page:
[wpgenie_save_clear_cart_buttons] displays the Clear Cart and Save Cart buttons
[wpgenie_saved_carts] displays the customer’s saved carts table
The plugin is lightweight and works with classic themes, block themes, the WooCommerce Cart block, and HPOS.
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By default, WooCommerce uses the same featured image everywhere: on shop and category pages, and as the first image on the product page. With this plugin, you can choose a separate image for the catalog, while the product page keeps its own images.
For example, you can use a branded cover or illustration in the catalog, and show screenshots or product photos once the customer opens the product.
Catalog & gallery images box in the product editor
The plugin adds a Catalog & gallery images box to the product editor sidebar, with two options you can use separately or together:
Catalog image: replaces the product image on shop pages, categories, product shortcodes, related products, and upsells.
Hide featured image in product gallery: removes the featured image from the product page, so the gallery starts with the first gallery image. If there are no other gallery images, the featured image stays visible.
The featured image is still used everywhere else: in the cart, checkout, orders, emails, and when the product is shared on social media. This way, you can use a promotional or branded image in the catalog, while customers see a clean product image throughout the purchase. Your product images are never changed or deleted, and if you deactivate the plugin, everything returns to normal.
Catalog image on the shop page
Product page: gallery without the featured image, catalog images in related products
Cart page shows the featured image, not the catalog image
The plugin works with the classic WooCommerce product editor and standard WooCommerce themes. Block-based product collections and galleries are not supported yet.
Use Cases
Digital products (plugins, e-books, courses): a branded cover in the catalog, screenshots on the product page
A consistent catalog look: all products in the same style and format, with lifestyle or detail photos on the product page
Promotional images: catalog images with labels like “New” or “Sale” that don’t belong on the product page
No duplicate images: keep the featured image in the catalog and cart, but hide it from the product page gallery, without setting a catalog image
If you want different product images for your catalog and product pages, download Catalog Image for WooCommerce for free from WordPress.org.
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You can buy WooCommerce Simple Auctions or its add-ons (Seated Auctions, Buy Bid Credits, and Role Base Bidding) in WPGenie’s Store.
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A great way to attract customers’ attention to your store is through a Dutch auction (or a decreasing-price sale), where buyers wait for the next price drop, knowing that waiting too long may mean losing the item they want.
In 2022 Samsung Electronics Australia ran an excellent Black Friday “Reverse Auction” campaign, which involved starting a product listed at full retail price and letting the price drop until all available items had been sold, or the price reached $1. The campaign generated significant attention: more than 51,600 people registered to participate, and Samsung reported a 270% year-on-year increase in Black Friday revenue.
The real potential of this type of campaign was not simply telling shoppers that “the price will drop.” It was turning the price drop into an event. A limited number of products, automatically decreasing prices, countdowns, real-time updates, and the possibility of securing a premium product at a great price all created urgency and FOMO.
In e-commerce, this tactic is usually called a Dutch auction; Samsung’s “reverse auction” label was catchy, but technically a reverse auction is something quite different (more on that below).
In this article, we’ll explain what a Dutch auction is, how to set it up in your WooCommerce store, and how to use it to gamify the shopping experience, clear inventory faster and attract new customers.
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What is a Dutch auction (or a decreasing-price sale)
A decreasing-price sale is a marketing strategy that creates psychological urgency (FOMO) by lowering product price at set intervals.
What makes this tactic particularly effective is that the decreasing price itself becomes part of the urgency mechanism. Buyers face a classic trade-off: wait longer for a lower price, or buy now before someone else buys it.
In e-commerce, a decreasing-price sale is commonly called a Dutch auction. While they aren’t exactly the same thing, a traditional Dutch auction and a decreasing-price sale share the same core mechanic: the price systematically drops until a buyer makes a purchase.
Note: Although Samsung called its 2022 Black Friday campaign a “reverse auction,” it was actually a Dutch auction. A reverse auction is a format in which one buyer posts a project, service or product they need, and multiple sellers compete by lowering their prices to win the contract.
The top benefits of running a Dutch auction in WooCommerce
When used as a sales tactic, a Dutch auction serves as a powerful promotional strategy:
Benefit
How It Helps Your Store
Creates urgency
The price drops at regular intervals (e.g., every hour or every day), and buyers know that if they wait too long, someone else will buy the item first
Gamifies the shopping experience
It turns buying into a game: buyers must constantly balance their desire for a lower price against the risk of the product selling out entirely
Helps inventory clearance
Sellers use this tactic as a promotional event to clear out seasonal overstock, end-of-line electronics, or clearance items
Generates high engagement
Because prices change dynamically, buyers repeatedly return to your website to check the current price, significantly driving up traffic and brand engagement during the promotional period
How to add a Dutch auction to your WooCommerce store
You can add a Dutch auction to your WooCommerce store with Drop Prices for WooCommerce, a free WooCommerce price drop plugin by WPGenie.
In this type of auction there is no traditional bidding process; instead, the price of the product is gradually reduced until a buyer accepts the currently displayed price.
Drop Prices for WooCommerce plugin integrates seamlessly with the standard WooCommerce Product Data metabox, enabling per-product configuration. This means you can choose any simple or variable product from your store, and offer it to your customers through a Dutch auction.
Once you’ve set up the price drop settings, the plugin will drop the product price automatically at the interval you set, with live countdown and an automatic price update on single product page and at checkout whenever a new price drop happens.
Single product page with a live price drop countdown. Offering premium products through a Dutch auction is a great marketing strategy.
Drop Prices for WooCommerce plugin
When editing a product, you’ll find several new fields under the General tab:
Price Change (Amount & Type): Define exactly how much the price drops using either a fixed amount or a percentage.
Intervals & Limits: Set a minimum price so you never sell below cost, and specify how often the price changes with the “Change price every n minutes” interval.
Automation & Schedule: Enable a live countdown timer on the product page and in the cart to create FOMO, and use the calendar picker to schedule the campaign’s exact timeframe.
Auto-Reset Options: Automatically reset the price and countdown timer and start from beginning after an order has been made, or after minimum price has been reached.
WooCommerce Simple Product data with price drop settings
A Dutch auction is a great way to clear inventory and give slow-moving products one more chance to sell.
Cart page with a live countdown to the next price drop. When the price drops, the cart updates automatically.
With Drop Prices for WooCommerce, you can run a Dutch-style auction for any product from your store: whether it’s a slow-moving product you want to give one more chance, or a best-selling product you know will attract the most attention.
Here are the top use cases for implementing this strategy in a WooCommerce store:
When launching exclusive items (e.g., limited-edition merchandise, rare collectibles, event tickets, or artisan goods), setting up a decreasing price builds immense psychological pressure.
2. Inventory Clearance
Instead of running a standard static clearance sale (e.g., “Everything 30% Off”), a descending price mechanism clears non-moving inventory much faster while preserving higher margins.
3. Gamified Promotional Campaigns (Flash Sales)
Use a decreasing-price auction as a high-engagement marketing tactic during major shopping holidays (Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Anniversary Sales). If a high-value item price drops in price, it will definitely drive high user engagement, and keep visitors on your site longer
4. Price Discovery for Unique or Custom Products
When introducing a completely new product where you aren’t sure how much customers are willing to pay, setting a high starting price and letting it drop helps establish true market value.
Conclusion
Whether you want to clear slow-moving stock, find out what customers are willing to pay for a new product, or create buzz around your Black Friday campaign, a Dutch auction works for almost any product in your store.
With WPGenie’s Drop Prices for WooCommerce, you can set up a Dutch auction for any product in your store in just a few minutes.
Can I set up a Dutch auction in WooCommerce for free?
Yes. Drop Prices for WooCommerce is a free plugin available on WordPress.org. It lets you configure price drops for each product individually.
Does the plugin work with variable products?
Yes. Drop Prices for WooCommerce works with both simple and variable products.
How often should the price drop?
It depends on the length of your campaign. For a sale that runs a few days, hourly or daily drops work well. For a short, event-style sale, you can drop the price every few minutes to keep shoppers watching.
Will shoppers always see the current price?
Yes. The price updates live on the product page and in the cart, so shoppers always see the current price without refreshing the page.
What happens after someone buys the product?
If you’re selling a single item, the sale ends when it’s sold. If you have more units in stock, the price keeps dropping for the remaining units. Or you can enable auto-reset so the price and timer return to the starting price for the next buyer.
Do I need to set up anything on my server?
Yes. To make sure prices drop exactly on time, you need to set up a 1-minute cron job in your hosting control panel. If your host doesn’t support 1-minute intervals, you can use an external service like EasyCron. See our documentation for step-by-step instructions.
Is a decreasing-price sale a good idea for Black Friday?
Yes. Black Friday shoppers are already hunting for deals, and a falling price with a countdown adds urgency that a standard discount doesn’t. It works especially well for limited-stock or premium products.
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WooCommerce Group Buy and Deals is not available on CodeCanyon anymore, our old clients can contact us to create account and and get most recent update.
WooCommerce Group Buy and Deals is a powerful, affordable, and easy-to-set-up group buying solution for WordPress and WooCommerce.
This WooCommerce addon allows you to create a professional deals website similar to Groupon in minutes. Set up group buy deals where products become available only when enough buyers commit, with automatic deal tracking, progress bars, countdown timers, and full refund management for failed deals.
WPGenie released Drop Prices for WooCommerce version 2.1, and it has some great upgrades.
We’ve added an option to reset the price and countdown automatically once your set minimum or maximum price is reached, so product sale campaigns can start from the beginning.
Also, a live countdown now displays on the cart page and during checkout, and if the price changes before the order is finished, it recalculates dynamically.
Drop Prices for WooCommerce
Drop Prices for WooCommerce is a free plugin that automatically lowers, or raises, an individual product’s price at intervals the seller chooses. On a single product page, customers can see a countdown timer showing how much time is left until the next price change.
Inspired by Dutch auction style selling, this plugin adds gamification to shopping: customers must decide when a product’s cheap enough to buy. If they hesitate too long, however, they risk losing the item to another buyer. This creates high-converting, urgency-led flash sales or clearance campaigns for an individual product.
The plugin also offers the option to automatically raise a product’s price at set time intervals, which is a great option for pre-orders, product launches, and early-bird offers, where sellers want to reward customers who buy early.
We have released Pick Number Update on 14th Sep 2026 which brings important security fix along with new feature multi select for instant wins and instant winners table for easier management of instant wins. Please update it as soon as possible. Full change log is here.
If you open ticket we can do update for you for free.
We’ve released a new, free plugin on the WordPress.org repository: WPGenie Product Subscriptions for WooCommerce.
This lightweight plugin adds a subscription engine to WooCommerce products. With it, you can turn any simple product into a subscription with custom billing plans — each with its own interval, period (day, week, month, year), and price per plan.
On the single product page, you can display these plans as a dropdown or radio buttons.
Customers can also view, manage, and manually renew their subscriptions from the “Subscriptions” page in My Account.
When a customer subscribes, the plugin creates a subscription record with start date, expiry date, status, customer details, and the original order, all manageable from the admin dashboard.
The important thing is that there’s no charging cards automatically: it sends customers automatic email reminders before their subscription ends, and renewals are made manually — either by the customer from their account, or from the admin dashboard. This means the plugin works with any payment gateway.
There’s also an option to restrict content to subscribers (with shortcode), and an option for admins to manually create a new subscription for a customer.
Use Cases
This plugin is ideal for small stores that want a simple way to sell subscriptions without a heavy billing system. It suits sellers who prefer manual renewals — like memberships, online courses, digital content, recurring services (maintenance, support, consulting), and box subscriptions. It’s also a good fit for stores that bill without automatic card charges.
New versions are out for several WPGenie plugins, each with security fixes and code cleanup
Behind the scenes over the summer, we rolled out updates across our plugin catalog. Every release came with security fixes and code cleanup, along with a few targeted improvements and bug fixes.
Here’s what changed.
Simple Auctions v3.0.10
Fixed an autocharge bug that occurred when the winner was different from the auction publisher
Relist handling improved: paid orders now stay intact and only unpaid orders fail on relist
Past orders are now saved on relist and displayed in the admin auction metabox
You can buy WooCommerce Simple Auctions, WooCommerce Lottery and WooCommerce Group Buy & Deals in WPGenie’s Store.
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Due to recent policy updates on CodeCanyon requiring all authors to be non-exclusive, we have adjusted our pricing on their platformand launched our own store
Due to recent policy updates on CodeCanyon requiring all authors to operate on a non-exclusive basis, we have updated the pricing of our plugins on the marketplace.
While the plugins remain exactly the same in functionality, updates, and quality, this change has allowed us to launch our own store and sell plugins directly at wpgenie.org.
All existing CodeCanyon customers will continue to receive full support and regular updates as usual, with no changes to their current licenses or access.
Same Plugins Now Available Directly from WPGenie
In addition to CodeCanyon, our plugins are now also available directly from our official store. Customers can now access the same plugins at a lower price compared to the marketplace, along with direct access to our support ticket system.
What This Means for Customers
The plugins available on WPGenie.org are the same plugins previously sold on CodeCanyon
Existing CodeCanyon customers will continue receiving updates and support
New customers can choose between CodeCanyon or direct purchase from WPGenie
Direct purchases include original lower pricing, with automatic access to our support ticket system
