Misleading plugin description. Lacks free features.

  • As a plugin developer I cringe when I see this happen. A big beautiful plugin readme file full of features, but none of them actually work in the plugin unless you pay.

    I’m left with clients emailing me saying “this plugin says it can do X, but when I try to turn it on, it tells me I need to pay”.

    For anyone reading, the following features of this plugin are locked behind a paywall:

    1. Increase the number of products that will be approved in Google’s Merchant Center: This option will fix WooCommerce’s (JSON-LD) structured data bug and add extra structured data elements to your pages.
    2. Exclude TAX from structured data prices
    3. Add GTIN, MPN, UPC, EAN, Product condition, Optimised title, Installment, Unit measure and Brand attributes to your store
    4. Enable Product data manipulation feature
    5. Enable WPML support
    6. Enable Aelia Currency Switcher support

    In many cases your product feed won’t be valid without some of the above features, rendering the free version of this plugin useless.

    To the author: You may be in violation of WordPress plugin guidelines by doing this, you might want to edit your readme file and make it clear what features are paid vs free.

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  • Hi Michael,

    Thanks for your review and constructive feedback, appreciated. The readme file does mention which features can only be used with the Elite version of our plugin, see: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ufex46vxqyt13vr/paid-version.png?dl=0

    We do however agree with you that it is too far down in the readme file and could stand our more, we definitely want to be clear about this so we’ll move it up in the next release of this plugin.

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