Documentation for Product Notes for WooCommerce Plugin

Settings

Product Notes for WooCommerce plugin lets you add private or public notes to WooCommerce products.

• Add multiple notes per product.
• Make notes public or private.
• Notes will be visible on product edit page.
• Display the notes in new product tab on frontend (“private” notes will be visible to admin and shop manager only).
• Display the notes in admin products list column.
• Make the notes searchable by admin (in backend).
• Export and import the notes.
• Add the notes to admin orders.
• Add the notes to admin emails.
• Edit the notes via bulk and quick edit.
• And more…

Product Notes Options

Plugin settings are located in “WooCommerce > Settings > Product Notes”.

• Frontend Options
• Backend Options
• Advanced Options

There are two very similar option pages: one for the private notes (in “WooCommerce > Settings > Product Notes > Private notes”):

and another for the public notes (in “WooCommerce > Settings > Product Notes > Public notes”):

Private/Public notes

Enables/disables private/public product notes.

Default: yes

Frontend Options

Private notes on frontend will be visible to admin and shop manager only. Public product notes will be visible to everyone.

Product tab

Show product notes in tab on frontend.

Default: yes

Product tab: Tab title

Sets product tab title.

Default: Private notes (private) or Notes (public)

Product tab: Tab title per product

If enabled, you will be able to set tab title for each product separately.

Default: no

Product tab: Tab priority (i.e. position)

Sets tab position. For example, to display it between the standard WooCommerce “Description” and “Reviews” tabs, set the priority to 15.

Default: 100 (private) or 101 (public)

Product meta

Show product notes in product meta on frontend.

Default: no

Backend Options

Textarea style

Styling for the textarea input on product’s admin edit page.

Default: width:100%;height:150px;

Admin products list column

Show product notes in admin products list column.

Default: no

Admin orders

Show product notes in admin orders.

Default: no

Admin emails

Show product notes in admin emails.

Default: no

Admin search

Make product notes searchable by admin.

Default: no

JSON Search

This will also make products notes searchable in admin JSON, e.g. when searching for “Linked Products”. “Admin search” option above must be enabled.

Default: no

Export

Make product notes exportable in “Products > Export”.

Default: no

Import

Make product notes importable in “Products > Import”.

Default: no

Quick edit

Make product notes editable in “Quick Edit”.

Default: no

Bulk edit

Make product notes editable in “Bulk Actions > Edit”.

Default: no

Advanced Options

Delete notes

Deletes all notes for all products. Check the box and save changes to delete notes. Please note that there is no undo for this action.

Default: no

Adding/Editing Notes

To add or edit a note, open product edit page:

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Frontend Product Tab

And if you have enabled Product tab option in plugin settings, you will see new “Internal note” tab added on frontend (visible to admin and shop manager only):

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[hide]Developers: Let’s say you need to add saved internal product notes to all admin emails. The easiest way would be to modify email-order-items.php template from WooCommerce (ideally by copying it from woocommerce/templates/emails/ to your child theme’s WooCommerce templates folder). Choose a place where you want notes to appear (e.g. after SKU) and add this PHP snippet to the template:

if ( $sent_to_admin && is_object( $product ) ) {
    $_product_id = ( 0 != ( $_product_id = $product->get_parent_id() ) ? $_product_id : $product->get_id() );
    echo alg_wc_get_internal_product_note( $_product_id );
}

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