Plugin Description

Most WooCommerce wishlist plugins are designed around one goal: collecting email addresses while locking the most useful features behind a paid subscription. We wanted something different. The Confluent Forms WooCommerce Wishlist Plugin was built from the ground up to help businesses better understand customer interest, recover lost sales opportunities, and create a significantly better shopping experience—all without recurring fees, licensing restrictions, or artificial limitations.

Customers can quickly save products to their personal wishlist, manage their saved items from their WooCommerce account, and organize each item according to its importance. Every wishlist entry supports customizable purchase priorities, expected purchasing timelines, private notes, and optional notifications when similar products become available. These simple additions transform a traditional wishlist into a powerful planning tool that encourages customers to return and complete purchases over time.

For store owners, the plugin becomes an invaluable source of customer intelligence. Detailed administrative reports show exactly which products are generating interest, who is interested in them, and how customers intend to purchase them. Instead of simply knowing that someone liked a product, you’ll understand whether they’re hoping to purchase it next week, saving for it over the coming months, or waiting for a similar item to become available. This information can directly influence purchasing decisions, inventory planning, marketing campaigns, and customer outreach.

One of the plugin’s most powerful capabilities is its intelligent similarity engine. Rather than relying on hard-coded product types, it evaluates categories, WooCommerce attributes, product tags, and pricing to determine when newly added products closely match items already sitting in customer wishlists. Because it uses the data already present in your WooCommerce catalog, the exact same plugin works equally well for vintage saxophones, Japanese woodblock prints, rare maps, clothing, electronics, collectibles, home décor, or virtually any other WooCommerce store. Simply configure how important categories, attributes, tags, and pricing are for your business, and the plugin does the rest.

Like every Confluent Forms plugin, the WooCommerce Wishlist Plugin is completely free to download and use. There are no activation servers, no usage tracking, no “Pro” upgrade required to unlock core functionality, and no branding injected into your storefront. It’s simply a thoughtfully engineered WooCommerce wishlist system designed to provide commercial-quality functionality while remaining lightweight, efficient, and easy to maintain.

Full Feature Set

Customer Experience

  • Save any WooCommerce product to a personal wishlist.
  • Dedicated My Wishlist page integrated directly into WooCommerce My Account.
  • Live wishlist counter.
  • Automatic wishlist value calculation.
  • View current pricing and availability directly from the wishlist.
  • Relative “Added” dates (e.g. Added 2 weeks ago).
  • Quickly remove products from the wishlist.
  • View products directly from the wishlist.

Wishlist Organization

  • Set a purchase priority for every saved item.
  • Choose an expected purchase timeline.
  • Add private notes for future reference.
  • Enable notifications for similar products.
  • Automatic saving of wishlist details.
  • Manual save option for immediate updates.

Intelligent Similar Product Matching

  • Configurable similarity engine.
  • Matches products using:
    • WooCommerce categories
    • Product attributes
    • Product tags
    • Price similarity
  • Adjustable matching threshold.
  • Works with virtually any WooCommerce product catalog.
  • No hard-coded product types.

Customer Notifications

  • Price drop notifications.
  • Back-in-stock notifications.
  • Similar product notifications.
  • WooCommerce HTML email templates.
  • Branded customer email communications.

Administrative Reports

  • Wishlists by Customer report.
  • Product Interest report.
  • Customer filtering.
  • CSV export.
  • Wishlist totals.
  • Last updated timestamps.
  • View complete customer wishlist details.
  • Review customer priorities, purchase timelines, notes, and notification preferences.

Product Intelligence

  • Identify products generating the greatest customer interest.
  • See how many customers have wishlisted any product.
  • Understand customer purchasing intent.
  • Identify high-value future sales opportunities.
  • Improve inventory planning.
  • Assist purchasing decisions using real customer demand.

Store Configuration

  • Dedicated top-level Wishlists administration menu.
  • Configurable similarity weighting.
  • Adjustable similarity threshold.
  • Lightweight settings.
  • Works alongside standard WooCommerce functionality.
  • Compatible with virtually any WooCommerce theme.

User Interface

  • Clean WooCommerce-native design.
  • Responsive customer interface.
  • SVG action icons.
  • Availability indicators.
  • Organized wishlist layout.
  • Modern administration screens.
  • Integrated About page.

Performance

  • Lightweight database structure.
  • Efficient wishlist queries.
  • Minimal front-end assets.
  • No external dependencies.
  • No remote API calls.
  • No activation servers.
  • No telemetry or phone-home tracking.

Confluent Forms Philosophy

  • Completely free.
  • No subscriptions.
  • No licensing checks.
  • No feature gating.
  • No forced branding.
  • No recurring fees.
  • Built for real businesses solving real-world problems.
  • Commercial-quality functionality with a lightweight footprint.

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License and Usage

These plugins are licensed under GPL-3.0. You are free to use, modify, and redistribute them under the terms of that license. The Confluent Forms name, logo, branding, and documentation remain the intellectual property of Confluent Forms LLC and may not be used to imply endorsement or affiliation.

Plugin version: 2.2.0

Last updated: 2026-09-04

At Confluent Forms, we believe great software shouldn’t require subscriptions, artificial limitations, or constant upselling just to become useful. Every plugin we release is available as a free download because we built it to solve real-world business problems that we encountered ourselves. There are no activation servers, no licensing checks, no “Pro” version hiding the features you actually need, and no unnecessary branding injected into your website. Install it, use it, and make it your own.

Our philosophy is simple: build plugins that provide exceptional value while staying as lightweight and efficient as possible. We focus on solving problems elegantly rather than adding unnecessary complexity. Every feature has a purpose, every setting exists for a reason, and every line of code is written with performance, maintainability, and compatibility in mind. Whether you’re managing a small business or a large WooCommerce store, our goal is to give you commercial-quality functionality without the commercial baggage.

We hope these plugins save you time, improve your business, and perhaps even inspire you to build something of your own. If they do, we’d love to hear about it—but that’s entirely your choice. There are no mandatory accounts, no phone-home tracking, no nag screens, and no pressure. Just thoughtfully engineered WordPress plugins, released freely because we believe good software should earn its reputation through quality rather than restrictions.

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