POM Composite products
Build configurable WooCommerce products from server-priced chapters while keeping selection, tax, stock, shipping, cart, order, and accessibility behavior consistent.
Why choose POM Composite products
The official WooCommerce Composite Products extension is a mature choice for conventional kits whose components each select one product. Choose the POM module when the configurator needs more freedom for customers, designers, or catalog managers:
- Native multiple selection: let customers choose several distinct products and quantities inside one chapter without introducing a hidden bundle product or another extension.
- Exact variation choices: offer a specific purchasable variation directly instead of requiring the customer to begin with its variable parent.
- Pack and capacity rules: define exact, minimum, and maximum units; distinct-product limits; per-option quantities; and quantity steps at chapter and complete-configuration level.
- More visual control: choose Stacked, Accordion, Stepped, Componentized, or Slot builder layouts; set responsive columns per chapter; and place an inline, sticky, or drawer summary independently from the builder.
- Richer decision rules: react to selections or chapter quantities, show or hide chapters, make them required or optional, and express exact product or variation relationships with Requires and Excludes rules.
- Earlier design validation: preview scenarios and detect circular, contradictory, or unreachable configurations before customers encounter them.
- Linked reusable chapters: maintain a shared chapter in one library, propagate approved updates to linked products, or detach an independent copy when a product needs to diverge.
- Portable configurations: export a complete configuration and import it only after products, variations, categories, images, and reusable relationships pass preflight on the destination site.
- Flexible commercial models: combine component-derived or fixed pricing with targeted adjustments, management fees, regional fixed amounts, partial shipping, and virtual service chapters.
- Shareable sales journeys: synchronize suitable chapter selections with the product URL and combine them with presets or customer-owned saved configurations when the related module is enabled.
These advantages are especially useful for build-your-own boxes, configurable services, exact-variation kits, sales-assisted configurations, and products that need several selections within one step. Review the supported component types before choosing either implementation, because ecosystem integrations and eligible product types differ.
Chapter contents
- Create your first Composite product
- Design chapters and choose a layout
- Price and ship Composite products
- Control choices with scenarios and compatibility
- Reuse and transfer Composite chapters
- Share Composite configurations
- Manage Composite carts and orders
- Composite product use cases
- Troubleshoot Composite products
- Migrate classic POM Composite products
- Composite Products developer reference
- Let customers save and share complete configurations
Start with the first guide, then use the task guide that matches the product you are building. The use-case library includes 12 concrete tutorials for bundles, kits, configurable services, regional catalogs, and shareable sales configurations.