Thomas Lloancy

<p>Simple Role Based Pricing is a lightweight and flexible WooCommerce plugin that allows you to set custom prices or discounts for products based on user roles. Configure global pricing rules, restrict discounts to specific product categories, apply bulk actions, or set role-specific prices per product with Quick Edit support. The plugin ensures robust pricing logic with category-based restrictions and detailed debug logging for troubleshooting.</p>
<h3>Key Features</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Role-Based Pricing</strong>: Set fixed prices, percentage discounts, or fixed-amount discounts for specific user roles.</li>
<li><strong>Category Restrictions</strong>: Apply discounts only to products in selected categories (e.g., “storage”).</li>
<li><strong>Global Rules</strong>: Define pricing rules for all products or specific categories in WooCommerce Settings.</li>
<li><strong>Bulk Editing</strong>: Adjust prices for multiple products at once.</li>
<li><strong>Quick Edit Support</strong>: Set role-based prices directly from the product list.</li>
<li><strong>Flexible Compatibility</strong>: Works with simple and variable WooCommerce products.</li>
<li><strong>Debug Logging</strong>: Detailed logs for troubleshooting pricing issues, including category matching.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Use Cases</h3>
<ul>
<li>Offer exclusive discounts to VIP customers or wholesalers.</li>
<li>Restrict discounts to specific product categories for certain roles.</li>
<li>Create role-specific pricing for B2B or B2C customers.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Compatibility</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>WooCommerce</strong>: Required (version 4.0 or higher recommended).</li>
<li><strong>User Role Editor</strong>: Optional, for managing custom user roles.</li>
<li><strong>Other Role Management Plugins</strong>: Compatible with plugins that add custom roles to WordPress.</li>
<li><strong>Themes</strong>: Tested with popular themes like Twenty Twenty-Five and Astra.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Configuration</h3>
<ol>
<li><strong>Global Rules</strong>:
<ul>
<li>Navigate to <strong>WooCommerce > Settings > Role Based Pricing</strong>.</li>
<li>Select a user role (e.g., Administrator, Customer).</li>
<li>Choose whether to apply pricing to <strong>All Products</strong> or <strong>Specific Categories</strong>.</li>
<li>Set the discount type (Percentage, Fixed Amount, or Fixed Price) and value.</li>
<li>Save changes to apply the rules site-wide.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Category Restrictions</strong>:
<ul>
<li>Select <strong>Specific Categories</strong> and choose the desired product categories (e.g., “storage”).</li>
<li>Only products in these categories will receive the discount for the specified role.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Per-Product Pricing</strong>:
<ul>
<li>Edit a product and use the <strong>Quick Edit</strong> option to set role-specific prices.</li>
<li>Alternatively, configure prices in the product’s <strong>Role Based Pricing</strong> settings.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<h3>Debugging</h3>
<ul>
<li>The plugin includes detailed debug logging to troubleshoot pricing issues.</li>
<li>Logs are stored in <code>/wp-content/uploads/simple-role-based-pricing/simproba-debug.log</code>.</li>
<li>To view logs:<br />
  <code>bash<br />
tail -n 200 /var/www/html/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/simple-role-based-pricing/simproba-debug.log</code></li>
</ul>


Simple Role Based Pricing

A lightweight WooCommerce plugin to set custom prices or discounts for products based on user roles.

Nitesh Das

Chadni Talukder

wpulse

<p><strong>Wholesale & Tiered Pricing for WooCommerce</strong> is the most flexible <strong>wholesale pricing plugin</strong> for WooCommerce stores. Designed for <strong>B2B shops, wholesale distributors, and bulk sellers</strong>, it lets you define custom prices, tiered volume discounts, and quantity purchase rules for any user role — including custom roles created by membership or access-control plugins.</p>
<p>Show eye-catching <strong>tiered pricing tables</strong> on your product pages, let customers see exactly how much they save as they buy more, and automate bulk discount logic without writing a single line of code.</p>
<p>🎥 <strong>Watch the Plugin Overview Video:</strong></p>
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<p>👉 <em>See how to set up wholesale pricing rules in under a minute!</em></p>
<p>Whether you run a <strong>wholesale WooCommerce store</strong>, sell to <strong>B2B customers</strong>, or simply want to reward bulk buyers with <strong>volume discounts</strong>, this plugin covers every scenario:</p>
<ul>
<li>Charge different prices per user role (wholesale, retailer, VIP, distributor, etc.)</li>
<li>Offer quantity-based tiered discounts (buy 5 save 10%, buy 10 save 20%)</li>
<li>Set minimum, maximum, and step purchase quantities per role</li>
<li>Display professional pricing tables directly on the product page</li>
<li>Schedule flash sales and time-limited pricing rules with start and end dates</li>
<li>Show a live savings calculator so customers see their discount in real time</li>
</ul>
<h3>Key Features</h3>
<h4>Role-Based Wholesale Pricing</h4>
<ul>
<li>Assign <strong>different product prices per user role</strong> — wholesale, retailer, B2B customer, VIP, vendor, or any custom role.</li>
<li>Full backward compatibility with both single-role and multi-role rule formats.</li>
<li><strong>Global pricing rules</strong> act as a wildcard and apply to all logged-in users or guest users.</li>
<li>Works with any custom role created by plugins like WooCommerce Memberships, Ultimate Member, or User Role Editor.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Tiered / Volume Discount Pricing</h4>
<ul>
<li>Create <strong>quantity-based pricing tiers</strong>: the more a customer buys, the lower the price per unit.</li>
<li>Set tiers as a <strong>fixed discount</strong> (e.g., $5 off per item) or a <strong>percentage discount</strong> (e.g., 15% off).</li>
<li>Apply tiers to all variations or target a specific variation of a variable product.</li>
<li>Multiple tier levels per rule — unlimited pricing bands.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Scheduled & Flash Pricing</h4>
<ul>
<li>Set an <strong>Active From</strong> and <strong>Active Until</strong> date on any pricing rule.</li>
<li>Rules outside their date window are automatically excluded from pricing, tables, cart validation, and discount messages — no manual toggling needed.</li>
<li>Perfect for <strong>flash sales</strong>, seasonal wholesale pricing, and time-limited B2B promotions.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Quantity Rules per Role</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Minimum quantity</strong> — require wholesale buyers to purchase at least N units.</li>
<li><strong>Maximum quantity</strong> — limit retail customers to a maximum order size.</li>
<li><strong>Step/increment quantity</strong> — force orders in multiples of 2, 5, 10, etc.</li>
<li>Quantity enforcement applies on the product page, in the cart, and at checkout.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Beautiful Pricing Table Templates</h4>
<ul>
<li>Six ready-made table layouts: <strong>Table</strong>, <strong>Options</strong>, <strong>Minimal Table</strong>, <strong>Compact List</strong>, <strong>Plain Text</strong>, <strong>Horizontal</strong>.</li>
<li>Choose the default template globally and override it per product.</li>
<li>Control which columns appear: Quantity, Price, Discount.</li>
<li>Set a custom table title and active-tier highlight color.</li>
<li>Responsive layout option for mobile shoppers.</li>
<li>Choose where the table appears: above/below add-to-cart, before/after product meta, or after product summary.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Live Savings Calculator</h4>
<ul>
<li>Displays a <strong>real-time savings widget</strong> on the product page.</li>
<li>Updates automatically as the customer changes the quantity input.</li>
<li>Shows regular price, discounted price, total savings amount, and discount percentage.</li>
<li>Can be enabled or disabled from Template Options settings.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Discount Badges in Cart, Checkout & Orders</h4>
<ul>
<li>Applied wholesale tier is shown beside each line item in the <strong>cart</strong>, <strong>checkout</strong>, <strong>customer order details</strong>, and <strong>admin order screen</strong>.</li>
<li>Customers see exactly which discount tier was applied and how much they saved.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Variable Product Support</h4>
<ul>
<li>Full support for <strong>WooCommerce variable products</strong> — rules and tiers can target all variations or a specific variation.</li>
<li>Pricing tables update dynamically when the customer switches between variations.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Performance & Security</h4>
<ul>
<li>Transient caching on the wholesale reports page (5-minute TTL).</li>
<li>Pre-warmed post meta cache to eliminate N+1 database queries.</li>
<li>Capped product and category queries (limit: 200) to prevent timeouts on large stores.</li>
<li>All AJAX handlers protected with nonce verification and capability checks.</li>
<li>Admin-only handlers are never registered as publicly accessible.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Wholesale Registration Form</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add the shortcode <code>[whtprole_registration_form]</code> to any page to let customers <strong>apply for wholesale access</strong>.</li>
<li>Collects company name, business type, VAT/tax number, phone, and a free-text message.</li>
<li>Guest applicants get a WooCommerce customer account created automatically — no extra step required.</li>
<li>Logged-in users who already submitted see their <strong>application status</strong> (pending / approved / rejected) instead of the form.</li>
<li>Admin receives an <strong>email notification</strong> for every new application.</li>
<li>Approved and rejected applicants are notified by email with WooCommerce-branded messages.</li>
<li>Manage all applications from <strong>Wholesale <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Applications</strong> in the WordPress admin.</li>
<li>One-click Approve (assigns the configured role) or Reject (with optional reason).</li>
<li>Configurable: choose which WordPress role is assigned on approval, set the notification email, and optionally require users to be logged in before applying.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Wholesale Reports</h4>
<ul>
<li>Dedicated <strong>Wholesale Reports</strong> page inside WooCommerce showing revenue, order counts, and top wholesale buyers.</li>
</ul>


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