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Does anyone know of a woocommerce plug-in that can return a random product after purchasing?

I'm creating an MVP where users can pledge an amount, any amount. Once they have paid, the site then selects a random product and assigns that transaction to that product.

Ideally, I'm looking for a Wordpress plug-in that can handle this.

Daniel Meade
@danielmeade

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Rob Wood
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There are a bunch that do upsells. Not sure about randomising it, but you might get better results from tailoring the upsell product anyway.

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Daniel Meade
@danielmeade

Thanks Rob, I'm not sure that this will suit my use case though - I've expanded on the question to provide more detail (I was unable to do this via the bot).

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Rob Wood
@robwood

Ahh makes sense. I don't know of a plugin, but shouldn't cost more than a few hundred bucks to get one developed (if you're not a dev). Doesn't seem too onerous.

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wordpress.org/plugins/receipt… - this looks the stuff. founded by one of the founders of woothemes.

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scratch that - that will not work for a secret product.

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If I understand it right, you want to have customers pay for a product and then afterwards decide what product they will get (Randomised)? This should be done by having a standalone product which people buy. And then later on, fulfilment of a randomised product is done with some logic on order status reaching complete status. Downloadables can be granted access + Physical product needs to be plugged into your shipping logic (this can get complicated if you are already using a plugin to do fulfilment, easier to plug the logic in your own fulfilment processing code).

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Daniel Meade
@danielmeade

Not quite. Really, this is what I’m after...

  • user purchases a product, but doesn’t know what the product is yet.
  • after the payment is processed, the site reveals what the user just purchased (along with transaction email)

I can spend a bit of time writing the logic for all this without woocommerce myself, I was just wanting to throw together a very quick MVP as a proof of concept - hence the want for a plug-in or similar.

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What I said could be one approach to implement it.

Otherwise you add a product randomly based on a certain action and then hide the product details on cart and checkout page & let them buy it. Afterwards, its revealed on its own?

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