KILB Product Designer for WooCommerce

Let your customers design it — and let AI do the first draft

Product Designer for WooCommerce by KILB turns any product into a canvas. Your customers add text, images and QR codes to shirts, posters, banners, cups, mugs and much more — live in the browser, on a real-time canvas that feels instant. When they are done, you get a print-ready file and a shop that sells something nobody else is selling.

Personalization used to start with a blank canvas, and a blank canvas is where good ideas — and sales — quietly stall. So we taught the designer to help.

→ New: AI design & image generation

Your customers describe what they want in plain words, and the designer starts the work for them:

• AI design generation — “a birthday card with a balloon in the top-right corner and ‘Happy Birthday’ at the bottom” comes back as a finished layout, with text, images and QR code placed on the canvas and ready to fine-tune.
• AI image generation — type a prompt, get an image, and it lands straight on the product.
• Your models, your budget — powered by OpenRouter, so a single API key unlocks Google Gemini, OpenAI GPT and Anthropic Claude models. Pick one model per feature, or let OpenRouter route automatically. A built-in rate limiter (set per visitor, by you) slows heavy usage instead of rejecting it, so AI costs stay predictable.
• Off until you say otherwise — AI is enabled per configuration, and only after you write the privacy disclaimer your customers see before they use it.

Everything your customers can do

→ Text on anything

Any font you install, any size, curved or straight, with full control over spacing and colour. Customers style their own type live on the product — and see exactly what they will get.

→ Images & clip art

Customers upload their own images — JPG, PNG, WEBP, GIF and SVG all work — choose from the libraries you curate in your Media library, or search Pixabay stock art using your own API key. Background images work the same way.

→ QR codes, built in

Generate scannable QR codes directly on the product — link a website, a video, a voucher. No extra plugin, no extra cost.

→ Snapping & grid tools

A configurable grid and smart snapping make clean, professional layouts effortless — for the customer who has never opened a design tool in their life.

→ Real design areas, per product

Front and back of a shirt? Two design areas, one product. Unlimited products, unlimited configurations — and you can pre-load an initial design so customers start from your artwork instead of an empty canvas.

→ Multilingual out of the box

The designer ships with English and German, detects your shop’s language automatically, and you can add any language with a simple JSON file.

Everything you need to fulfil the order

→ Export in every format your printer asks for

Vectorized PDF, PNG, JPG, WEBP, SVG and raw JSON for further processing. There is no artificial limit on resolution, quality or file size — you set the rendering factor, and if your machine can render it, you can sell it.

→ Get paid for personalization

Personalization is worth more, so charge for it: add a flat surcharge whenever a product is personalized, or price per image, per predefined image, or per text character.

→ Every ordered design, in your backend

Customers see a preview in the cart and in their order confirmation. You get a searchable list of every design ordered, with previews and one-click export — inside your own WordPress admin, no external dashboard. Compatible with HPOS.

→ Set it up once, reuse it everywhere

Export your configurations as CSV, import them on another shop or product, and roll out a proven setup in minutes instead of rebuilding it.

See this video to understand how to set up the designer and get a first idea how it will work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT61VoMICb8

Your customers’ designs. Your database. Always.

Most SaaS-style configurators quietly ship every design your customers create off to a third-party cloud. KILB Product Designer does not. Configurations, uploads and finished designs are written straight into your shop’s own WordPress database — the same one that already holds your customers and orders.

• No silent export of customer data to a vendor’s cloud — and no second system to keep in sync.
• GDPR-friendly by default — data residency follows your own hosting, not ours.
• Works even if we don’t — the plugin renders designs without calling us, so there is no runtime dependency on an external API. Nothing stops working because someone else’s service went down.
• AI is the one opt-in exception — only the prompts your customers type reach the AI provider you configure, behind the disclaimer you write. Leave AI off and no design data ever leaves your server.

Built the way a shop needs it

→ Performance

A fast, modern JavaScript frontend, shipped minimized and loaded quietly in the background. By the time a customer clicks to design, everything is already there.

→ Native, not an iframe

Because it is a native plugin rather than a bolted-on iframe widget, it feels like part of WooCommerce: same authentication, same database, same admin you already know. It hooks into WooCommerce only where necessary, which is why it is unlikely to conflict with your other plugins.

→ Predictable pricing — no revenue share

Plenty of configurator add-ons look cheap until you read the fine print: a cut of every sale, forever. This one is licensed like software should be — a flat subscription per shop. Sell one design or one million; the price does not move.

→ Responsive

Phones, tablets, notebooks and desktops all get the same touch-friendly designer. No separate mobile experience to maintain, nothing to configure.

→ Extendable

Add your own CSS and JavaScript to change how the designer looks and behaves, without rebuilding or redeploying anything. Full documentation: https://product-designer.io/docs

How it works

1. Configure — choose the product, set the printable area, the fonts and colours you allow, the images you offer, and your prices.

2. Let customers design — they start from a blank canvas, from your initial design, or from an AI first draft they describe in a sentence.

3. Export and print — every order arrives in your backend with a preview, ready to export as PDF, PNG, JPG, WEBP, SVG or JSON.

Why personalization pays off

Personalization is one of the most reliable levers in eCommerce. Customers want purchases that feel made for them, and a product they designed themselves is exactly that — which makes it worth more to them, and easier to justify at a higher price.

It also keeps people on your site. Designing is an interactive, playful experience: customers experiment with colours, fonts and layouts, spend real time with your brand, and come back to it. That engagement turns into loyalty and repeat business.

And it converts. People who have invested effort into a product are attached to it — and far less likely to abandon a cart they have already put themselves into. Offering a designer also sets you apart from the many stores that sell personalized products without letting anyone actually design them.

In short: more engagement, higher conversion, higher order values, and a store that stands out. Personalization pays for itself.

Questions before you buy? Have a look at the documentation at https://product-designer.io/docs — and if you need anything, we are here for you.