Eren Labs – Smart Categories For WooCommerce Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download
Plugin Description
WooCommerce categories are manual: you add each product by hand and re-check them every time a price, stock level or attribute changes. Smart Categories for WooCommerce makes a category define itself — you describe the products with rules, and matching items are added automatically and kept in sync forever.
- Unlimited nested rules. Combine AND, OR and NOT in nested groups — e.g. (Colour is Black OR Red) AND price < 50 AND on sale.
- 35+ fields to match on. Title, SKU, price, sale price, discount %, stock status/quantity, attributes, tags, brand, product type, ratings, all-time sales, dates, custom fields, dimensions and more.
- Live preview. As you build the rules you see exactly which products match, and how many, before you save.
- Always up to date. Membership refreshes automatically when a product, price or stock level changes, and on a daily sweep — no cron babysitting.
- Manual assignments are respected. Products you added to a category by hand are never removed by the engine.
- Categories or tags. Point a rule set at a product category or a product tag.
- Storefront sorting & stock. Order a smart category’s shop page by best-selling, newest, price or rating, and push out-of-stock products to the end (or hide them).
- Gutenberg block + shortcode. Drop a smart category’s products anywhere with the “Smart Category Products” block or
[scwc_products id="12" limit="12" columns="4"].
Works with WooCommerce global product attributes and is HPOS-compatible.
Read the full documentation — getting started, the rule reference (every field and operator), nested AND/OR/NOT groups, storefront sorting, the block and shortcode, performance on large catalogs, the Pro subcategory generator and troubleshooting.
How it works
- Create a category. Pick a ready-made template (On Sale, New Arrivals, Low Stock…) or write your own rules. The live preview shows exactly which products match, and how many, before you save.
- Products flow in. Matching products are assigned immediately when you create the category.
- It stays current. Membership refreshes when a product, price or stock level changes, plus a daily sweep — a product that stops matching leaves on its own.
- Your manual picks are safe. The plugin only ever removes memberships it created itself.
Free vs Pro
The complete rule engine above is free, with no limits on the number of categories or rules. Smart Categories Pro (a separate download, distributed through Freemius) adds an automatic subcategory generator:
Feature
Free
Pro
Unlimited nested AND/OR/NOT rule engine
Yes
Yes
35+ match fields, live preview, daily auto-refresh
Yes
Yes
Category and tag rule sets
Yes
Yes
Storefront sorting & out-of-stock handling
Yes
Yes
Products block + shortcode
Yes
Yes
Auto-generate a subcategory per attribute value (Colour, Size, Brand…)
Yes
Combine two attributes into a cross-product of subcategories
Yes
Editable name templates (e.g. {value1} {value2} {parent})
Yes
New attribute values grow new subcategories on their own (daily)
Yes
Sales-intelligence fields: units sold 7/30/90 days, revenue, velocity, days since last sale
Yes
Trending & stale-product auto-collection templates
Yes
Category Tree overview page
Yes
Full feature comparison and pricing: erenlabs.net/smart-categories-for-woocommerce
External services
This plugin can connect to Freemius (freemius.com) to power the optional Pro upgrade: licence activation, automatic updates for the paid version, and the checkout/upgrade screens. Nothing is sent unless you opt in. If you click “Allow & Continue” during the optional opt-in, non-sensitive environment data (site URL, WordPress and PHP versions, active theme/plugins and your admin email) is sent to Freemius to enable licensing and updates; if you skip it, no data is transmitted. Freemius is only contacted for these upgrade/licensing actions.
- Freemius Terms of Use: https://freemius.com/terms/
- Freemius Privacy Policy: https://freemius.com/privacy/
Screenshots
Start in one click — ready-made collections built from your own catalog, each showing how many products are waiting.
Describe products with rules: combine AND, OR and NOT in unlimited nested groups, with a live preview of what matches.
Created and populated — matching products are assigned immediately, then kept in sync automatically.
Every smart category at a glance, with live product counts and one-click refresh.
Turn any existing product category into a smart one; products you assigned by hand are never removed.
A full Help & FAQ inside the admin: matching, performance, storefront and troubleshooting.
Free forever, Pro when you grow — the complete comparison and pricing.
