---
title: WooCommerce Variable-Price Product Research
type: article
created: '2026-01-29'
updated: '2026-01-29'
source_docs:
- raw/2026-01-29-team-stand-up-118147644.md
tags:
- woocommerce
- doodla-farms
- plugins
- research
- ecommerce
layer: 2
client_source: FinWellU
industry_context: b2b-services
transferable: false
---

# WooCommerce Variable-Price Product Research

## Overview

This task was assigned to Ishak during the 2026-01-29 team stand-up. The goal is to investigate whether WooCommerce can support a variable or open-amount price field on a product, as a replacement for the donation plugin currently conflicting with WooCommerce on the [[wiki/clients/current/doodla-farms/index|Doodla Farms]] site.

## Background

The Doodla Farms site has a donation plugin that conflicts with WooCommerce, causing instability. The plugin was deactivated as a temporary fix. A WooCommerce product for donations already exists on the site, but standard WooCommerce products do not natively allow the customer to enter an arbitrary dollar amount — which is the core feature the donation plugin provided.

Mark's guidance from the stand-up:

> "I think there's a way to create a product with a variable price in WooCommerce. We need to research that."

## Research Questions

- Does WooCommerce core support open/custom pricing on a product natively?
- Which plugins (if any) enable variable customer-defined pricing, and how do they perform?
- Are there lightweight, paid-only options that won't introduce the same instability as the donation plugin?
- Can this be achieved without a plugin via custom code or a theme hook?

## Fallback Option

If a clean variable-price solution cannot be found, Mark and Karly agreed that **fixed donation tiers** are an acceptable alternative:

> "What we could do, Karly, is just create some standard donation amounts, $100, $500, something like that. And then people don't need to have that level of granularity."

Karly confirmed: *"I think just having set amounts is fine for the amount of work that that would be."*

Fixed amounts would be implemented as WooCommerce product variations — no additional plugin required.

## Constraints

- Any plugin solution must be a **paid version only** (per new plugin protocol)
- Must be approved by Mark before installation
- Should not conflict with existing WooCommerce setup on Doodla Farms
- Preference is to avoid a plugin entirely if a native or code-based solution exists

## Action Items

| Owner | Task |
|-------|------|
| Ishak | Research variable-price WooCommerce product options and report findings |
| Karly | Present chosen approach (variable price or fixed tiers) to Lucy for approval |

## Related

- [[wiki/operations/protocols/plugin-management-protocol|Plugin Management Protocol]]
- [[wiki/clients/current/doodla-farms/index|Doodla Farms]]
- [[wiki/meetings/2026-01-29-team-stand-up|Team Stand-Up 2026-01-29]]