Try Before You buy for WooCommerce

Online shopping comes with uncertainty because customers feel fear to place an order without trying, which leads to cart abandonment and reduces sales. Turn this fear into a confident buyer with our powerful WooCommerce Try Before You Buy solution.
This extension allows you to offer product trials directly from your store, giving customers the opportunity to test items before making a final purchase decision. You can restrict trials to specific products, categories, brands, or user roles and set custom trial periods based on product type or quantity. It also lets you apply a trial fee, manage returns through a structured process, and enable trial options across your entire store. All trial activity can be tracked and managed from a detailed dashboard.
A complete solution to make your store similar to popular brands that offer try-before-you-buy experiences.

How does Try Before You Buy Work?

Once activated, customers will be able to see a “Try Before You Buy” button on eligible products. When a customer starts a trial, their payment details are collected, and a trial fee is charged, if applicable. Customers can choose to keep or return the product. If they decide to keep it, the remaining balance is automatically charged; otherwise, they can return it by following your store’s return process.

Allow customers to try products before they buy

Try Before You Buy for WooCommerce allows customers to try the product before making a purchase, which makes your store more engaging, reduces customer hesitation, builds their trust, and can increase your store’s sales. It can also allow you to restrict trials by user, country, or shipping zone, apply fees, and track activity easily.

Option for customers to either return or keep products

This feature provides flexibility to customers to return or keep a product after the completion of the trial period. Once the trial period ends, if the product meets their expectations, they can choose to keep it and pay the remaining balance; otherwise, they can return it by submitting a return request with an attached file and a default or custom reason to ensure a smooth and risk-free experience.

Set a custom trial and purchase limits for customers

With this extension, you can easily control trial duration, product quantity, and monthly purchase limits. It allows you to define how many days a product can be used on trial and how many items a customer can try within a month, which can manage your store inventory effectively while maintaining full control over product trials.

Charge additional fees for trial products

You can set additional fees for trial products to protect your store margins by using the WooCommerce Try Before You Buy feature. It allows you to configure the trial fees globally or for specific products and easily manage trial priorities and order statuses. This gives store owners the flexibility to offer trial products without affecting overall profitability.

View detailed trial dashboard and logs

You can monitor all trial activity from a centralized dashboard by using the WooCommerce try-before-you-buy. It allows you to easily track a record of tried products, review customer activity logs, and check the status of every trial order in real time. This gives you full visibility to manage your store inventory efficiently and makes it easier to follow up with customers who are testing products in your store.

Offer trials for specific products, categories, and brands

With WooCommerce’s try-before-you-buy feature, you can easily create customized trial rules based on specific products, categories, or brands, which gives you complete control over exactly where the trial option will appear. It can build smart, targeted campaigns for those products that benefit most.

 

Restrict trial products by user roles, shipping zones, and countries

You can control the trial access to specific products, categories, and user roles, such as wholesale or retail customers. It also allows you to control availability based on shipping zones or countries. After restricting, only eligible customers can use or access the trial products. This gives you full control over who qualifies for a trial and helps protect your business from misuse.

Customize “try before you buy” button and templates

With this extension, customize button text, colors, icons, and templates to match your theme and branding. You can choose whether the option appears inline or in a pop-up and add custom headings or instructions to guide customers clearly. This is ideal for try-before-you-buy clothing sites and other niche stores that rely on user experience to build trust and increase purchase confidence.

Customizable email notification to customers and admins

Keep customers and store admins informed at every stage with automated email notifications. Send confirmation emails when a trial starts, reminder emails before the trial expires, and notifications when the trial period ends. This improves communication, reduces manual follow-ups, and ensures a smooth trial experience for everyone.

More Features

• Allow customers to easily try products before purchase
• Track trial & purchase performance from the smart dashboard with detailed analytics:
  • Count of active and completed trials
  • Count of these trials that end this week
  • Total count of these products that were kept by customers
  • Total amount of kept products
  • Total count of Shipping cost
  • Total returned products
  • Average product return rate
  • Interactive graph view for easy analysis
• Create and manage trial rules with:
  • Add a custom title for each rule
  • View details of all existing rules
  • Set the trial period to a defined number of days
  • Enable monthly quantity and purchase limits
  • Set monthly trial limits per product
  • Set a total purchase limit per customer
  • Apply rules to specific:

• Products
• Categories
• Brands
• Entire collections
• Restrict trials by:
  • User role
  • Country
  • Shipping zone

• Add a custom heading and instructions for the “Try Now” templates
• Apply trial settings globally across the store by:
  • Setting the trial priority to manage the multiple rules simultaneously
  • Define the order status to start the trial period:
    • Pending payment
    • Processing
    • Trial period
    • On hold
    • Complete
  • Apply additional fees to trial samples as needed.

• Notify the customer via customized email notification:
  • Send a trial confirmation email after the trial starts
  • Send reminder emails before the trial expires
  • Send notification emails when the trial expires
• Offer flexible product return options by:
  • Allowing customers to upload file attachments as evidence for returns
    • Set the specific file formats such as .jpg, .png, and .pdf
  • Allowing customers to add a default or customized return reason
    • Manage return reasons with complete backend control by:
      • Add any reason name
      • Add and manage return reasons that appear in the customer dropdown
      • Easily activate or deactivate any default return reason at any time
      • Remove return reasons without affecting the frontend flow
      • Only active/enabled reasons are shown to customers in the dropdown during the return request

• Customize button appearance by
  • Enable custom button styling:
    • Background color
    • Text color
  • Choose button display position:
    • Page
    • Popup
  • Add a custom icon for the “Try Now” button
• Maintain trial activity logs