Group Buying for WooCommerce

Group Buying for WooCommerce enables you to offer group-buy deals on specific products and entice your customers to purchase in large quantities as a group to get discounts. Make your customers your brand ambassadors as they share your product to complete the group and qualify for a discount.

Group Buying is a must have extension for merchants dealing in products that can only be sold in groups, e.g., group classes, safari and tour tickets, and more.

Allow your customers to create public or private groups or join any existing group to get a product at a discounted price. This extension helps in achieving 3 major benefits, i.e., community building, increased sales volume, and increased word of mouth as customers intend to share with others to complete a group target.

For easy management, the extension offers flexible discount settings, participant limits, group deadlines and payment options to choose from. The Group Buy button and labels can be fully customized, maximizing its appeal to boost conversions.

Why offer group buying in your store?

• Efficiently sell group items that can’t be purchased individually like tours, group classes and more
• Increase store sales and boost engagement by offering discounts when purchased in groups
• Boost brand awareness through social sharing as your customers intends to complete group
• Beat the competition by offering an attractive group-buying facility
• Expand customer base by attracting new customers using your existing customers
• Reduce marketing costs through referrals, which are relatively inexpensive

Features List: 

• Add group buying option to any product
• Create global rules to enable group buy for multiple products and categories
• Set sales target for each group to qualify for discount
• Add group buy discount in fixed or percentage amount
• Add a deadline to force customers to complete group within a specific time
• Show countdown timer and group sales progress
• Allow customers to join existing or create a group
• Enable customers to create a private or public group
• Limit the number of public and private groups that can be created on a single product
• Quick links to let customers share group via Email, Facebook, Twitter, and more
• Apply group buying discounts on regular or sale prices
• Manage created groups from store admin panel
  • View group sales progress
  • Mark group as qualified or disqualified
• Display created, invited, and joined groups on my account page
• Show all or specific payment methods for group buy purchases
• Add default order status for group buy orders
• Restrict group buy option for specific user roles
• Email notifications for admin and customers about group updates
• Customize group descriptions, button labels, colors, and more

Enable group buy for specific products & categories:

Add group buying to selective products and categories using global rules or product-level settings.

Global rules:

When adding global rules, you can enable group buying on multiple products and categories at once without having to set up options from individual product pages. When creating new rules, you can control group buy discounts, member limits, and all other options required to create tailored group buy campaigns.

Product level settings:

Looking to enable group buying only on specific products? Using the product-level settings, you can set up group buy right from the product edit sheet. Each product can have different group buy discounts and other settings as per the product requirements.

Allow customers to create public or private groups:

With Group Buying for WooCommerce, you can allow your customers to join or create either a public or private group.

Public group:
Public groups are available for all customers in your store. Other customers can participate in the group by purchasing products at a discounted group rate.

Private group:
The private group is visible to selected users only. While creating a private group, your customer can add the email addresses of multiple people and send them an invitation to join his group by purchasing products at a discount rate.

Add groups creation limit:

Control the maximum number of public and private groups your customers can create in your store. Once the threshold exceeds, your customers will only be able to join an existing group instead of creating a new one.

Define group targets:

You can set a group target in terms of sales or the number of members who must join to complete the sales target.

• Sales target: If you have set a target of 5, as soon as the five quantities are purchased, the group target will be completed. Even one customer can purchase five quantities to complete the group target.
• Limit purchase quantity: To complete the sales target, the group must have five members, where each member can only purchase a single quantity.

Offer group buy discount in fixed or percentage:

Offer attractive discount deals on group buying to entice customers to purchase products in groups. You can add a discount in a fixed or percentage amount and apply it to the regular or sale price of the product.

Set group deadline:

You can set a deadline for all groups to complete within a specific number of days. Display a countdown timer to notify customers about the time left before the group expires. You can choose to display either a text or digital countdown timer.

Groups management for admin:

As store admin, you can view and manage groups that have been created on your store.

Clicking on any group will show the basic group details, group expiry date, sales/members target, and current progress, group status and more.

You can manually change the group status and view the orders linked to this group. If the group disqualifies, you can manually refund these orders or fulfill them even when the group has failed to qualify.

Groups management for customer:

Customers can view and manage their group from My Account page. The extension lists created, invited and joined groups along with the important group information like group name, product, discount, target, current status and order linked to each group.

Control payment methods for group buying:

Limit payment methods that can be used to place group buying orders, offering merchants a better control to display payment methods that are best suited for group buying.

Set default status for group buy orders:

Set the default order status that should be assigned to group buy orders. The extension will list any custom order status that you might have created.

Note: You can also add custom statuses using our Custom Order Status extension to easily add and assign custom status to group buying orders.

Customize options:

Group buy label and descriptions:

You can customize group buy labels, descriptions and other content as per your business needs. Add product specific description and discount content to conveniently communicate required information with your customers.

Button, colors, heading and other details:

You can customize the group buy button label, color scheme, heading and other details as per your store layout. See documentation for more details.

Email notifications:

Group Buy for WooCommerce sends the following email notifications to customers and admin. You can customize these emails from WooCommerce  > Settings Emails.