Eren Labs – Smart Categories for WooCommerce
WooCommerce categories are manual: you add each product by hand and re-check them every time a price, stock level or attribute changes. Smart Categories for WooCommerce makes a category define itself — you describe the products with rules, and matching items are added automatically and kept in sync forever.
- Unlimited nested rules. Combine AND, OR and NOT in nested groups — e.g. (Colour is Black OR Red) AND price < 50 AND on sale.
- 35+ fields to match on. Title, SKU, price, sale price, discount %, stock status/quantity, attributes, tags, brand, product type, ratings, all-time sales, dates, custom fields, dimensions and more.
- Live preview. As you build the rules you see exactly which products match, and how many, before you save.
- Always up to date. Membership refreshes automatically when a product, price or stock level changes, and on a daily sweep — no cron babysitting.
- Manual assignments are respected. Products you added to a category by hand are never removed by the engine.
- Categories or tags. Point a rule set at a product category or a product tag.
- Storefront sorting & stock. Order a smart category’s shop page by best-selling, newest, price or rating, and push out-of-stock products to the end (or hide them).
- Gutenberg block + shortcode. Drop a smart category’s products anywhere with the «Smart Category Products» block or
[scwc_products id="12" limit="12" columns="4"].
Works with WooCommerce global product attributes and is HPOS-compatible.
Read the full documentation — getting started, the rule reference (every field and operator), nested AND/OR/NOT groups, storefront sorting, the block and shortcode, performance on large catalogs, the Pro subcategory generator and troubleshooting.
How it works
- Create a category. Pick a ready-made template (On Sale, New Arrivals, Low Stock…) or write your own rules. The live preview shows exactly which products match, and how many, before you save.
- Products flow in. Matching products are assigned immediately when you create the category.
- It stays current. Membership refreshes when a product, price or stock level changes, plus a daily sweep — a product that stops matching leaves on its own.
- Your manual picks are safe. The plugin only ever removes memberships it created itself.
Free vs Pro
The complete rule engine is free, with no limits on the number of categories, rules or products.
Free — everything you need to organise a catalog
- Unlimited nested AND / OR / NOT rule engine
- 35+ match fields, live preview and daily auto-refresh
- Category and tag rule sets
- Storefront sorting and out-of-stock handling
- Products block +
[scwc_products]shortcode - Ready-made templates and in-admin Help & FAQ
Pro — automation for growing stores
- Auto-generate a subcategory per attribute value (Colour, Size, Brand…)
- Combine two attributes into a cross-product of subcategories
- Editable name templates, e.g.
{value1} {value2} {parent} - New attribute values grow new subcategories on their own, daily
- Sales-intelligence fields: units sold 7 / 30 / 90 days, revenue, velocity, days since last sale
- Trending and stale-product auto-collection templates
- Category Tree overview page
- Priority support
Smart Categories Pro is a separate download distributed through Freemius. Full comparison and pricing: erenlabs.net/smart-categories-for-woocommerce
External services
This plugin can connect to Freemius (freemius.com) to power the optional Pro upgrade: licence activation, automatic updates for the paid version, and the checkout/upgrade screens. Nothing is sent unless you opt in. If you click «Allow & Continue» during the optional opt-in, non-sensitive environment data (site URL, WordPress and PHP versions, active theme/plugins and your admin email) is sent to Freemius to enable licensing and updates; if you skip it, no data is transmitted. Freemius is only contacted for these upgrade/licensing actions.
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