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Bartosz Gajewski

WooCommerce Catering and Food Ordering Plugin

Updated: March 07, 2023 / Plugin Tutorials

WooCommerce is very flexible. You can use this e-commerce platform not only for selling standard, physical products. How about food delivery in WooCommerce? It's possible too! Start selling food, set up catering, and the food ordering in WooCommerce with a free plugin!

Are you looking for a WooCommerce plugin to make online food ordering possible? Do you wonder if you can use WooCommerce to sell configurable products (food) with delivery options?

Learn how to create a catering business & sell food online using WooCommerce. Let's use our free plugin as a WooCommerce Catering Plugin alternative!

Table of contents

  • WooCommerce Catering Plugin Alternative
  • Sell food in WooCommerce with product custom fields
  • WooCommerce Food Ordering Plugin - Example
  • Summary & more about the plugin

WooCommerce Catering Plugin Alternative - How to get ready

👉🏼  I want to show you a simple and easy-to-implement method based on the extra product fields. The solution will make use of standard WooCommerce products. There will be no need to implement overcomplicated plugins and systems.

1️⃣ First, you need the lightweight Flexible Product Add-Ons plugin.

Flexible Product Fields WooCommerce

A simple yet complete WooCommerce food delivery plugin. Try it out and decide whether it's your next WooCommerce catering plugin.

Download for free or Go to WordPress.org
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10,000+ Active Installations
Last Updated: 2023-03-13
Works with WooCommerce 7.1 - 7.5.x

You can download it for free from WordPress.org or install it right from your store's plugins section searching for flexible product fields:

Flexible Product Fields installation
Flexible Product Fields is your WooCommerce catering plugin

Also, see the quick overview of the plugin features:

💡 In this tutorial we will be using the extra pricing option, which is available in the PRO version.

2️⃣ Once you have the plugin installed and activated, let's configure it.

Choose Products → Product Fields in your WordPress menu.

Then you need to add a new field group:

WooCommerce food ordering plugin - Add new fields group Flexible Product Fields
Add new fields - Product Fields

You need to specify the WooCommerce product(s) in which a customer will be shown the extra product fields for food ordering. Of course, you can select all products in the store.

WooCommerce food ordering plugin installation
Select products in your WooCommerce catering plugin (Flexible Product Fields)
💡 In the free version of the Flexible Product Fields, you have to specify products one by one while in the PRO version, you can select either all products from a category or all products in the store.

Sell food in WooCommerce with product custom fields

Below the Settings section, you will see the Fields section.

✅ I have configured it this way:

Flexible Product Fields food delivery fields
WooCommerce Catering Plugin - Configured Fields

✅ I wanted to let customers

  • select when catering starts (the date field),
  • decide if the catering should be lactose-free and/ or gluten-free and/ or vegan (a checkbox field),
  • and how long the subscription should last (a radio field to select 1, 2, 3, or 4 weeks).

✅ You can see an example configuration of the Subscription plan field below:

Extra pricing - Flexible Product Fields PRO
WooCommerce Catering Plugin - Subscription plan configuration

✅ Of course, you may use any WooCommerce shipping methods to sell food in your store. Read more about setting shipping methods →

✅ If you need any help with the configuration of fields check out the plugin documentation →

💡 You need the PRO version if you want to charge customers for the selected fields.

WooCommerce Food Ordering Plugin - Example

3️⃣ This is how it looks like in the shop - on the product page:

WooCommerce food plugin configured
Extra product fields added with Flexible Product Fields

After you add the product to the cart, you will see the product on the list that looks like this:

Sell online with Woo Commerce and product custom fields

💡  Check out the Catering box product on our demo store or create your demo store with the plugin and the product preinstalled.

Summary & more about the plugin

Are you ready to promote a healthy lifestyle in your store?

As you've seen, Flexible Product Fields is a multipurpose plugin. You've learned how to use it to sell food, offer catering, and set up food ordering in WooCommerce.

Flexible Product Fields PRO WooCommerce £59

A simple yet complete WooCommerce food delivery plugin. Try it out and decide whether it's your next WooCommerce catering plugin.

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10,000+ Active Installations
Last Updated: 2023-03-15
Works with WooCommerce 7.1 - 7.5.x

Let me know in the comments if you like this solution. I'm looking forward to your feedback.

💡 Also, check out our WooCommerce Extra Product Options Guide if you want to learn more use cases for the Flexible Product Fields plugin.

Related to WooCommerce food ordering

  • Adding a date picker with Flexible Product Fields

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    WooCommerce date picker. In this article we will teach you how to add the delivery time picker field.

  • WooCommerce extra product options guide

    woocommerce extra product options
    Extra product options. Everything you need to know about extra product options in WooCommerce.

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Bartosz Gajewski

Content Specialist in WP Desk. He tries to increase the number of plugin users with useful content. Privately an enthusiast of mountains and European cinema.

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