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<h2><strong>Highlights</strong></h2>
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<li style="color: #000"><strong>Try the product before purchasing.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Flexible keep or return option. </strong></li>
<li><strong>Set the trial duration and purchase limit</strong></li>
<li><strong>Maintain and track the trail logs. </strong></li>
<li><strong>Automated email notifications for trial updates. </strong></li>
<li><strong>Maintain and track the trail logs. </strong></li>
<li><strong>Restrict trials by product, category, user role, or shipping zone.</strong></li>
<li><a href="#more-features"><strong>View Detailed Features List Here</strong></a></li>
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<p>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.<br />
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.<br />
A complete solution to make your store similar to popular brands that offer try-before-you-buy experiences.</p>
<h2>How does Try Before You Buy Work?</h2>
<p>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.</p>
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<h2>Allow customers to try products before they buy</h2>
<p>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.</p>
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<h2>Option for customers to either return or keep products</h2>
<p>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.</p>
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<h2>Set a custom trial and purchase limits for customers</h2>
<p>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.</p>
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<div class="twocol-one last"><img src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Detail-rule-settings.png" alt="Set a custom trial and purchase limits" /></div>
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<h2>Charge additional fees for trial products</h2>
<p>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.</p>
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<h2>View detailed trial dashboard and logs</h2>
<p>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.</p>
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<div class="twocol-one"><img src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Detail-rule-setting.png" alt="Offer trials for specific products, categories, and brands" /></div>
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<h2>Offer trials for specific products, categories, and brands</h2>
<p>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.</p>
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<h2>Restrict trial products by user roles, shipping zones, and countries</h2>
<p>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.</p>
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<h2>Customize “try before you buy” button and templates</h2>
<p>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.</p>
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<h2>Customizable email notification to customers and admins</h2>
<p>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.</p>
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<h2 id="more-features">More Features</h2>
<ul>
<li>Allow customers to easily try products before purchase</li>
<li>Track trial & purchase performance from the smart dashboard with detailed analytics:
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<li>Count of active and completed trials</li>
<li>Count of these trials that end this week</li>
<li>Total count of these products that were kept by customers</li>
<li>Total amount of kept products</li>
<li>Total count of Shipping cost</li>
<li>Total returned products</li>
<li>Average product return rate</li>
<li>Interactive graph view for easy analysis</li>
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<li>Create and manage trial rules with:
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<li>Add a custom title for each rule</li>
<li>View details of all existing rules</li>
<li>Set the trial period to a defined number of days</li>
<li>Enable monthly quantity and purchase limits</li>
<li>Set monthly trial limits per product</li>
<li>Set a total purchase limit per customer</li>
<li>Apply rules to specific:</li>
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<li>Products</li>
<li>Categories</li>
<li>Brands</li>
<li>Entire collections</li>
<li>Restrict trials by:
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<li>User role</li>
<li>Country</li>
<li>Shipping zone</li>
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<li>Add a custom heading and instructions for the “Try Now” templates</li>
<li>Apply trial settings globally across the store by:
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<li>Setting the trial priority to manage the multiple rules simultaneously</li>
<li>Define the order status to start the trial period:
<ul>
<li>Pending payment</li>
<li>Processing</li>
<li>Trial period</li>
<li>On hold</li>
<li>Complete</li>
</ul>
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<li>Apply additional fees to trial samples as needed.</li>
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<li>Notify the customer via customized email notification:
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<li>Send a trial confirmation email after the trial starts</li>
<li>Send reminder emails before the trial expires</li>
<li>Send notification emails when the trial expires</li>
</ul>
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<li>Offer flexible product return options by:
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<li>Allowing customers to upload file attachments as evidence for returns
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<li>Set the specific file formats such as .jpg, .png, and .pdf</li>
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<li>Allowing customers to add a default or customized return reason
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<li>Manage return reasons with complete backend control by:
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<li>Add any reason name</li>
<li>Add and manage return reasons that appear in the customer dropdown</li>
<li>Easily activate or deactivate any default return reason at any time</li>
<li>Remove return reasons without affecting the frontend flow</li>
<li>Only active/enabled reasons are shown to customers in the dropdown during the return request</li>
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<li>Customize button appearance by
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<li>Enable custom button styling:
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<li>Background color</li>
<li>Text color</li>
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<li>Choose button display position:
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<li>Page</li>
<li>Popup</li>
</ul>
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<li>Add a custom icon for the “Try Now” button</li>
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<li>Maintain trial activity logs</li>
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Try Before You buy

<p data-start="216" data-end="388">Let customers try products at home before purchasing. Charge a try-on fee, set return windows, and allow easy returns or retention.</p>
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<p>Note: <strong>AutomateWoo Refer A Friend</strong> requires <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/automatewoo/">AutomateWoo</a> to be installed and active on your store.</p>
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<h2><strong>Boost your organic sales by adding a customer referral program to your WooCommerce store.</strong></h2>
<p>Adding a referral program to your WooCommerce store is a great way to increase your word-of-mouth sales and numerous studies show that people trust recommendations from people they know.</p>
<p>With AutomateWoo Refer A Friend you can quickly set up a referral program that is customized for your store.</p>
<p>Run a ‘coupon based’ campaign where advocates can share a unique coupon, giving the friend a discount and the advocate store credit for each successful referral. If you don’t wish to offer coupon discounts you can run purely ‘link based’ campaigns where advocates can refer their friends by sharing a unique link to your store.</p>
<h2>Why Use Refer A Friend?</h2>
<h3>Effortless Referral Management</h3>
<p>Easily create and manage a WooCommerce customer referral program all from your WordPress admin area. You can choose between either an automatic or manual referral approval process. Selecting automatic approval means that any referral that does not appear to be fraudulent will be automatically approved once its corresponding order is marked as complete.</p>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/referrals-listing.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4874122 aligncenter" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/referrals-listing.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="382" /></a></p>
<h3>Intuitive Referral Process</h3>
<p>The customer referral process is easy and flexible for advocates, allowing sharing via Email, Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp.</p>
<p>For the advocate’s friend the process is just as simple, all they need to do it use a coupon to gain their referral discount.</p>
<figure id="attachment_4917272" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-4917272" style="width: 620px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-4917272 size-medium" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/automatewoo-refer-a-friend-page.png?w=620" alt="WooCommerce customer referral page" width="620" height="443" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-4917272" class="wp-caption-text">Full Share Page – Screenshot taken using the Storefront theme</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_4874132" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-4874132" style="width: 620px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/referral-email.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4874132" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/referral-email.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="578" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-4874132" class="wp-caption-text">Share Email Default Template</figcaption></figure>
<h3>Post-Purchase Widgets</h3>
<p>Encourage referral sharing by including the post-purchase share widget on the order confirmation page and by creating order follow-up emails using the email version of the widget.</p>
<figure id="attachment_4874126" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-4874126" style="width: 620px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/widget.png"><img class="wp-image-4874126 size-medium" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/widget.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="247" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-4874126" class="wp-caption-text">Order Confirmation Widget – Screenshot taken using the Storefront theme</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_4874128" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-4874128" style="width: 543px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/email-widget.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4874128" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/email-widget.png?w=543" alt="" width="543" height="368" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-4874128" class="wp-caption-text">Email Share Widget</figcaption></figure>
<h3>Fraud Prevention</h3>
<p>It’s important for your customer referral program to include fraud prevention methods. Our WooCommerce Refer A Friend add-on has a few fraud rules out of the box:</p>
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<li><strong>Advocate IP address matches that of the customer</strong> – The referral will be marked as potentially fraudulent and will be blocked from auto-approval. Matching IP addresses don’t always mean that the referral is fraudulent as your store could be shared among co-workers who use the same IP address.</li>
<li><strong>Matching cookies</strong> – A cookie is placed in the advocates browser and if present they will not be able to use a referral coupon. If there is a match the coupon cannot be used.</li>
<li><strong>Matching emails</strong> – When attempting to use a referral coupon the billing email is checked against any previous orders. If there is a match the coupon cannot be used.</li>
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<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/referrals-detail.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4874135 aligncenter" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/referrals-detail.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="395" /></a></p>
<h3>Reporting</h3>
<p>Evaluate the success of your customer referral program by using reports that show the number of referral orders placed.</p>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/report.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4874137 aligncenter" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/report.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="453" /></a></p>
<h3>Advocates Accounts Tab</h3>
<p>Advocates can view their successful referrals from their account area.</p>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/accounts-page.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4874138 aligncenter" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/accounts-page.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="361" /></a></p>
<h3>Workflows Integration</h3>
<p>The Refer A Friend add-on integrates with AutomateWoo workflows adding new triggers and variables. This lets you set up automation for your customer referral program and also gives you complete control over any email notifications that you want to be sent to admins or advocates.</p>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/workflow.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4874139 aligncenter" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/workflow.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="471" /></a></p>

AutomateWoo – Refer A Friend add-on

<p>Boost your organic sales by adding a customer referral program to your WooCommerce store.</p>

Try Before You buy vs AutomateWoo – Refer A Friend add-on