Decision: Investigate next. Price hypothesis: $150 one-time. Estimated pilot: 5–10 working days.
Problem
Service opportunity for configuration and regression checks of wholesale quantities. A product gap is not confirmed.
Buyer
WooCommerce beverage, greeting-card and bulk-weight shops; maintenance agencies.
Competition and substitutes
Official Min/Max already covers categories, multiples and variations; free plugins exist.
Monetization hypothesis
Test a $150 one-time audit/setup service. A $49/year licence is only a later hypothesis if the same unmet task repeats.
Acquisition hypothesis
Hypothesis: WooCommerce agencies and packaging-specific solution pages. No outreach performed.
Risk
Woo Min/Max at $49/year and free substitutes cover basics; compatibility support may consume margin.
Next test
Test twelve mixed bottles, ten cards plus one print, 10 kg increments, and catalogue/cart/Blocks paths; compare existing plugins.
When to stop
Keep only a setup service if the official plugin covers typical cases; abandon a standalone clone.
Scope and uncertainty
Working days for one experienced full-stack developer building a narrow pilot for one store/theme. Excludes marketplace review, legal documents, universal compatibility, marketing and ongoing support. Assumption, not a delivery commitment.
Sources and limitations
EC08: WooCommerce Multiple Purchase Quantity
Open primary source — user report. Retrieved 2026-10-13; opened page.
Needs a per-kilogram price and purchases in 10 kg increments without manually creating variations. Objects to paid plugin suggestions.
Limitation: Exact date unavailable; relative timestamp only. Explicit counterevidence to willingness to pay.
EC09: Priduct Quantity Step not showing for all products
Open primary source — user report. Retrieved 2026-10-13; opened page.
An apple juice shop mixes flavours into cases of 12; a quantity-plugin problem makes some products fail.
Limitation: Older discussion around 2024; issue may be fixed. Pro use is self-reported, not purchase-verified.
EC10: Minimum order amount per category
Open primary source — user report. Retrieved 2026-10-13; opened page.
Wants a minimum of ten greeting cards while allowing purchase of a single expensive print.
Limitation: Support says the Pro version already supports this. Relative timestamp only.
EC11: Customers are able to add quantity less than the minimum set quantity to cart
Open primary source — user report. Retrieved 2026-10-13; opened page.
A category-page button allows adding less than the configured minimum.
Limitation: Old bug in a particular plugin; not proof that all solutions fail.
EC12: Getting 404 error when I Add min qty 2
Open primary source — user report. Retrieved 2026-10-13; opened page.
Setting min=2 creates a malformed Select Options URL and a 404, while the product page still opens.
Limitation: Search index and relative page timestamps differ. Do not call the bug current without reproducing it.
EC13: Min/Max Quantities for WooCommerce
Open primary source — vendor. Retrieved 2026-10-13; opened page.
Official extension costs $49/year: minimums, maximums and multiples at product, variation, category and order level; Woo Blocks and HPOS support advertised.
Limitation: Price observed on an opened page October 13. Older reviews can describe older versions. Existing features substantially overlap this idea.
EC14: Maximum, Minimum and Multiple Quantity for WooCommerce Shops
Open primary source — substitute. Retrieved 2026-10-13; opened page.
A free open-source quantity-control extension exists.
Limitation: Not tested on a live store; availability does not guarantee complex mixed-case coverage.