<p>Offer customers free or paid samples with the <strong>Free Product Sample</strong> extension for WooCommerce and take the pressure off their purchase decisions.</p>
<p>Providing free or paid samples gives customers the opportunity to try out your products before making larger purchases. Customers appreciate this option, and it shows you believe in the quality of your products.</p>
<p>Free samples are ideal for home improvement shops that sell items like tiles, carpet, upholstery fabrics, wallpaper, and paints. Customers can use samples to be sure they like how these products look in their homes.</p>
<p>In addition, to help home-improvement shoppers, our developers made sure that <strong>Free Product Sample</strong> is compatible with <strong>WooCommerce Measurement Price Calculator</strong> — another great extension designed to help customers buy products sold by a unit of measurement.</p>
<p>Samples are also attractive to shoppers in many other categories including grocery, beauty, makeup, and fragrances. Customers may also enjoy the option to buy multiple small samples and create an additional revenue stream for your store.</p>
<h2>Features</h2>
<h3>Easily offer free or paid samples</h3>
<p>The design of <strong>Free Product Sample</strong> creates an uncomplicated way for customers to try out your products. It also makes it easy for you to install the extension and start filling orders with samples.</p>
<h3>Purchase samples and regular stock together</h3>
<p>Customers can purchase samples and full-size products in the same order.</p>
<h3>Manage custom stock</h3>
<p>To avoid any complications with tracking your inventory, you can create a custom stock category for samples. Create an inventory of samples and list them under their own categories where you can assign prices, shipping, and tax classes separate from those of your standard products.</p>
<p>Placing samples in their own category also allows you to easily track your inventory of samples.</p>
<p>Delight your customers when you provide samples with <strong>Free Product Sample</strong>.</p>

Free Product Sample

<p>Increase trust by offering customers free samples.</p>

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<li>Create multiple chained product bundles by linking different products together</li>
<li>Force add linked products to cart along with main product</li>
<li>Offer linked products at discount, at the same price or for free</li>
<li>Add a fixed linked-product quantity or tie it the main product quantity</li>
<li>Create chained products using global rules or from product detail page</li>
<li>Compatible with variable products & option to force with every order</li>
<li>Customize chained block labels, out-of-stock options and position on product page</li>
</ul>
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<p>Offering product bundles or complementary gifts is a simple way to increase your store’s average order value. Linked Products for WooCommerce offers a simple way to create custom product bundles, combo offers, giveaway deals, and more without having merchants to go through extensive options.</p>
<p>Automatically add linked products to the cart and force multiple products to be sold together. Offer your customers a unique value and ultimately improve customer experience and store revenues.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734004241135" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Linked-Product-Example-1.png" alt="" width="980" height="540" /></p>
<h2>How does it work:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Create a bundle by linking a single or multiple products to another product, which can be called the main product.</li>
<li>Offer linked products at the same or discount price, or for free.</li>
<li>Specify the quantity of the linked product that must be added with the main product.</li>
<li>Force linked products to automatically add to the cart when a customer purchases the main product.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Use cases:</h2>
<p><b>Offer Giveaways:</b><br />
Giveaways are a common way to boost sales of any online store. By offering complimentary products along with the main product, you can entice your customers to place an order. For example, By offering a free laptop bag along with a laptop can help in increasing the sales of the laptops.</p>
<p><b>Connect/Chained Products:</b><br />
Linked Products for WooCommerce enables you to sell products that must be bought in pairs of 2 or more. For example, If you are selling a gym training plan that requires a particular diet plan for maximum results, you can combine them together and force your customers purchase them as a package deal.</p>
<p><b>Bundle Offers:</b><br />
With this extension, you can combine multiple products to create different bundles. Offer discounts on linked products and let your customer see the value of purchasing a bundle, hence helping you to increase your overall store’s revenue. Suitable for selling shaving kits, makeup boxes, related product bundles, and more.</p>
<h2>Create chained products using product level settings:</h2>
<p>Linked Products for WooCommerce enable merchants to link product(s) to any selected product right from the product edit sheet. You can link single or multiple items to the product and control their prices and quantities. You can also choose to force add linked products to cart for once or every time a customer hits the add to cart button.<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734004241033" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Link-products-from-product-page-1.png" alt="" width="980" height="506" /></p>
<h2>Create chained products using global rules:</h2>
<p>With a rule-based method, you can attach linked-product(s) to the entire store catalog or selected products and categories. You can also restrict chained products to selected user roles.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734004241011" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Linked-Product-Global-rule.png" alt="" width="980" height="732" /></p>
<h2>Adjust linked-product prices:</h2>
<p>You can adjust the price of the linked product as per your business needs. The extension offers 4 price adjustment types,</p>
<ul>
<li><b>Free</b> – the linked-product will be added to cart with zero price</li>
<li><b>Same</b> – the linked-product will have same price at set in store</li>
<li><b>Percentage discount </b> – offer linked product at a percentage discount of its current price</li>
<li><b>Fixed discount</b> – you can also offer linked product at a fixed discount of its current price</li>
</ul>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734004241121" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Linked-Product-discount-example.png" alt="" width="980" height="251" /></p>
<h2>Control linked-products quantity:</h2>
<p>You can choose to set linked products quantity as “Fixed” or “Linked”. In case of Fixed, the linked product quantity that will be added to cart will remain fixed irrespective of main product quantity whereas in case of Linked, the linked-product quantity will be the same as main product product quantity. See documentation for more details.</p>

Linked Products

<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Chain products together and offer them as a bundle. Automatically add associated items to the cart along with the main product at a discounted price, the same price, or for free. Suitable to create custom bundles, giveaways, product kits, combo offers, BOGO and more. </span></p>

Free Product Sample vs Linked Products