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WooCommerce · Free plugin · Document previews
Let buyers turn a few pages before they pay.
A preview button on the product page for PDFs, eBooks, and Office files.
Buyers of eBooks, templates, and reports want to see a few pages before committing. Document Preview adds a preview button to WooCommerce product pages so shoppers can read a sample PDF, Word file, spreadsheet or presentation in a popup. The sample is its own upload, separate from the file they get at checkout, so you decide how much of the document sells the rest.
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How it works
Three steps between a file and a sold document.
The whole plugin is one field on the product screen and one button on the product page. Everything else is the popup doing its job.
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Attach a document to the product
Open the product in the WordPress editor and fill the Preview Documents box. Upload the sample to the media library, or point at a document already living on Google Drive, OneDrive, SharePoint or Dropbox. More than one file can hang off a single product.
No template edits. No shortcode to place.
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A preview button appears on the product page
The button renders on the single product page as soon as a file is attached, directly after the add to cart button, carrying the document name you typed. There is no settings screen to visit first, because the free plugin has no options to set.
Works on any WooCommerce store.
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The buyer reads it in a popup
Clicking the button opens a 900 by 700 pixel popup over the product page, with the document rendered inside it by the Google document viewer. The buyer scrolls the sample and decides without losing their place in the catalogue.
Fixed size popup, no second tab.
What it previews
Eight file types uploaded, or linked straight from the cloud.
Documents
Uploaded to the media library
- DOC
- DOCX
- TXT
Spreadsheets and slides
The same preview button, the same popup
- XLS
- XLSX
- PPT
- PPTX
Linked, not uploaded
No duplicate copy in WordPress
- Google Docs
- Google Sheets
- Google Slides
- OneDrive
- SharePoint
- Dropbox
More than one file per product
Attach several documents to a single listing when one sample is not enough to show what the buyer is getting.
Still works on localhost
A public viewer cannot reach a document sitting on your laptop, so on a local, .test or .dev host the plugin switches to its own built-in viewers instead. Previews keep rendering while you are still building the store.
Access
A sample sells the file. You decide how much of it is the sample.
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The popup is the whole surface
The document opens in a popup over the product page. No second tab, no separate viewer page, no scroll back to find the add to cart button.
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No template edits to get there
Attach a file on the product edit screen and the button renders itself. There is nothing to place, register, or style before it works.
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The sample is its own upload
The preview document is a separate file from the one WooCommerce delivers at checkout. Attach the opening chapter, the sample worksheet, the first ten slides, and the product file stays exactly as it was.
Pricing
Free previews the file. Pro hands the field to your vendors.
The free plugin adds preview buttons on any WooCommerce store, on as many sites as you like. Pro replaces it with a version that carries vendor dashboard uploads for Dokan, WCFM, and WC Vendors, button position and colour control, and category control. Pro switches the free plugin off when you activate it. Read the refund policy.
Document Preview for WooCommerce
Free forever
Free
Unlimited sites, no licence key
- Use on unlimited sites
- Preview button on every product page
- PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, and TXT
- Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides links
- OneDrive, SharePoint, and Dropbox document links
- Multiple documents per product
- Community support
Woo Document Preview Pro
Personal
$19/year
or $119 once · lifetime
1 site
- Use on 1 site
- Replaces the free plugin, which it switches off on activation
- Preview upload from the vendor dashboard
- Dokan, WCFM, and WC Vendors support
- Button position before or after add to cart
- Button and text colour control, including hover states
- Allowed Categories and Allowed File Types controls
- 1 year of updates and support
- Email support
Most popular
Woo Document Preview Pro
Professional
$39/year
or $129 once · lifetime
5 sites
- Use on 5 sites
- The complete Pro feature set, same as Personal
- 1 year of updates and support
- Email support
Woo Document Preview Pro
Agency
$59/year
or $199 once · lifetime
Unlimited sites
- Use on unlimited sites
- The complete Pro feature set, same as Personal
- 1 year of updates and support
- Email support
Before you install
Questions store owners ask about document previews.
What does the plugin actually add?
A preview button on WooCommerce single product pages. Shoppers click it and read the attached PDF, Word file, spreadsheet, or presentation in a popup before they buy.
Which file types are supported?
PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, and TXT, plus documents linked from Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Dropbox.
Do I need to write any code?
No. Attach a document on the product edit screen and the preview button appears on the product page on its own. There is no shortcode to place and no template to edit.
Which file does a shopper actually see?
The one you upload into the Preview Documents box, which is a separate file from the download WooCommerce delivers after checkout. Attach an excerpt if you would rather the whole document was not readable before purchase, because the preview is a public sample and not an access-controlled one.
How big is the popup?
It opens at 900 by 700 pixels over the product page and the document renders inside it through Google's document viewer. On a local, .test or .dev host the plugin falls back to its own built-in viewers instead, since a public viewer cannot reach a file on your machine.
Is it really free?
Yes, on unlimited sites, with community support. Woo Document Preview Pro is the paid edition for marketplaces, and it replaces this plugin rather than sitting alongside it.
Does it work on a multi-vendor marketplace?
The free plugin works on any WooCommerce store, including one running a marketplace plugin, but the preview field stays on the WordPress product screen. Woo Document Preview Pro is what moves it onto the Dokan, WCFM, and WC Vendors product forms.
Add a preview to your first document today.
Install the free plugin, attach a sample PDF or Office file to a product, and the preview button appears on the product page.
Free forever · Unlimited sites · No licence key