Description
CertaCart is the bulk GPSR product-information workflow for WooCommerce. It scans published products for supported manufacturer, EU responsible-person, product identifier, and safety-information fields, turns gaps into ranked tasks, and helps merchants publish configured information on product pages.
Scans run locally inside WordPress in resumable browser batches. Start with the highest-impact task, open the affected products at the relevant CertaCart fields, and verify the plugin’s configured storefront output. A no-score review path runs every supported field check while showing the score as N/A until the merchant chooses an EU sales scope.
Catalog processing remains local to WordPress. The plugin includes the Freemius SDK for optional installation analytics, account, licensing, and paid-update services; analytics is not enabled unless an administrator explicitly opts in.
Free
- Structured manufacturer, EU responsible-person, product identifier, safety-information, product-level EU scope, and storefront-display fields.
- Resumable scans of published products in browser batches (default 1,000; configurable from 50 to 2,000). Reopening the report resumes an active Free scan.
- A no-score review path that runs every supported field check and reports the score as N/A.
- Task-first Home, ranked tasks, detection confidence, direct product-edit links, and de-duplicated affected-product counts.
- Automatic output in three WooCommerce positions, plus a dynamic block and
[certacart_product_information]shortcode for manual placement. - Searchable and filterable product reports, scan history, and CSV export.
- Optional placement helper for a merchant-supplied, locally hosted harmonised legal-guarantee notice image.
- WP-CLI scan and status commands.
- Configurable report retention and explicit uninstall cleanup.
CertaCart Pro
- Reusable manufacturer and EU responsible-person profiles, including single-product profile application.
- Exact preview before applying a profile to up to 5,000 unique Product IDs or SKUs, with an operation log, 100-product pre-change snapshot chunks, and conflict-safe field-level Undo while the snapshot is retained. Undo applies only to profile bulk changes; newer product edits are preserved.
- CSV uploads up to 5 MB, with dry-run preview for up to 10,000 rows and apply requests of up to 1,000 rows. Blank cells leave existing values unchanged unless explicit clearing is enabled. CSV apply has no Undo.
- Daily or weekly scheduled scans with completion and failure email summaries. Action Scheduler is preferred, with WP-Cron as a fallback.
Founding customer pricing: Solo €9/year for 1 active site, Business €39/year for 5 active sites, and Agency €79/year for 25 active sites. Taxes may be added based on customer location.
CertaCart website | Free and Pro pricing | Privacy | Support forum
Important scope and boundary
CertaCart checks supported fields stored by the plugin and its own storefront-output configuration. It does not inspect the final theme or page-builder DOM, independently scan product variations, determine whether a law applies to a specific product or offer, validate merchant-supplied data or translations, assess product safety, provide legal advice, or certify compliance. Variations inherit their parent product’s CertaCart information rather than being scanned independently. Merchants remain responsible for applicability, product safety, language requirements, the accuracy of supplied information, and final storefront placement.
The guarantee-notice helper does not bundle or alter official artwork. Select the correct unmodified official language asset obtained from the European Commission and verify its use with qualified counsel where needed.
Privacy
The plugin stores product metadata, settings, and scan reports in the merchant’s WordPress database. It does not transmit catalog or customer records to CertaCart or Freemius. Freemius analytics remains disabled unless an administrator chooses Allow & Continue on the disclosed opt-in screen. See the CertaCart privacy policy.
External services
This plugin uses the Freemius service for optional installation analytics and, when applicable, account management, licensing, checkout, and paid-plugin updates. On activation an administrator can allow or skip the analytics connection. If allowed, Freemius may receive the administrator’s first name, last name, and email; site URL and title; WordPress, PHP, plugin, and SDK versions; site language; plugin activation/deactivation or uninstall status; and installed plugin/theme names, slugs, versions, and active status. Product catalog content, customer records, orders, and CertaCart scan reports are not sent.
Freemius is provided by Freemius, Inc. Review its terms at https://freemius.com/terms/ and privacy policy at https://freemius.com/privacy/ before opting in or using paid services.
Screenshots
Blocks
This plugin provides 1 block.
- CertaCart Product Information Displays the configured manufacturer, EU responsible person, product identifier, and safety information for a WooCommerce product.
Installation
- Install and activate WooCommerce.
- Upload the plugin ZIP or install it from the WordPress plugin directory.
- Open WooCommerce > CertaCart.
- Choose whether EU customers can buy the published catalog, then click Scan my store. Choose the no-score path if you are not sure yet.
- Start the highest-impact task and complete the highlighted product fields.
- Use CertaCart > Settings only when you need to change the smart defaults.
FAQ
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Does this make my store legally compliant?
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No. It checks supported CertaCart fields and the plugin’s own output configuration. It does not inspect the final theme or page-builder DOM, determine legal applicability, assess product safety, or certify compliance.
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Does the plugin upload my catalog?
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No. The plugin processes product data inside your WordPress installation and does not upload catalog or customer records to CertaCart or Freemius.
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Why is an EU responsible person requested?
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The scanner requests responsible-person information when a product is marked as having a manufacturer outside the EU. The merchant must determine the correct economic operator and legal applicability.
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Does it include official guarantee-notice artwork?
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No. The merchant selects a locally hosted official asset for the appropriate language. This avoids silently modifying, translating, or remotely loading official artwork.
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Can I scan a large catalog?
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Yes. The browser starts small REST batches. The batch size is configurable from 50 to 2,000 products to suit the hosting environment. Keep the report page open while the free scan runs; if the page is closed, reopening it resumes the active scan.
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Can I place the information with a page builder?
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Yes. Choose Manual placement in settings, then use the CertaCart dynamic block or
[certacart_product_information]shortcode. Manual mode prevents duplicate automatic output. -
How are products outside the selected EU scope handled?
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They remain visible in the report as outside scope but are excluded from the aggregate product information readiness score and finding totals.
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What happens if a Pro license expires?
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Premium capabilities are disabled and premium jobs do not run. CertaCart does not delete product information, reusable profiles, scan results, or scan history. Free fields and storefront output continue to work.
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What happens when I delete the plugin?
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Data is retained by default. Enable the explicit delete-on-uninstall option before deleting the plugin to remove settings, scan tables, and CertaCart product metadata.
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Contributors & Developers
“CertaCart GPSR & EU Product Readiness for WooCommerce” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.0.3
- Makes Freemius-generated Premium activation hand off the active plugin basename, automatically deactivate the Free package, and avoid duplicate runtime constants.
1.0.2
- Makes no-score review scans run every supported field check and produce ranked tasks while showing the score as N/A.
- Keeps first-scan scope choices local to that scan instead of silently changing the store default.
- Makes bulk Undo conflict-safe by restoring only fields that still equal the value applied by CertaCart.
- Splits large Undo snapshots into bounded, non-autoloaded chunks and reports restored, skipped, and missing items.
- Forces deterministic UTF-8 LF translation catalogs on Windows and Linux builds.
- Completes the unified Freemius architecture: Premium code is isolated for Deployment stripping and inactive licenses stop paid jobs without deleting merchant data.
1.0.1
- Keeps one CertaCart entry in the WooCommerce menu and uses a focused in-app navigation shell on CertaCart screens.
- Requires an explicit EU sales scope before the first scan and supports a no-score review scan without changing the saved scope.
- Rewords scores and completion states as supported product-information checks instead of legal-readiness claims.
- Replaces field-gap totals on Home with actionable task, unique-product, and confidence counts.
- Compacts first use, adds a CertaCart SVG illustration, and standardizes scan-batch documentation at 50 to 2,000 products.
- Makes the Complete source bundle self-testable and adds hash-bound raw external-tool evidence recording.
1.0.0
- Rebuilds the admin experience around Home, ranked Tasks, History, and smart-default Settings.
- Groups related field findings into clear tasks with de-duplicated affected-product counts.
- Shows one best next action after each scan and opens the relevant product fields directly.
- Adds distinct first-use, scanning, completed, no-scope, empty-catalog, stopped, and failed states.
- Adds task-aware product filtering, 20-row pagination, completed-task caching, and batched post-cache priming.
- Keeps scans read-only, removes repeated confirmation friction, and exposes Pro restore actions in History.
0.9.1
- Adds a one-click recommended setup and scan flow.
- Shows the most common catalog issues directly on the dashboard.
- Speeds up scans with larger batches and one database write per batch.
- Makes bulk profile application numeric-SKU safe, previewable, logged, and undoable.
- Reports invalid CSV fields and handles Product ID / SKU fallback and conflicts explicitly.
- Improves multisite deactivation, repeated storefront rendering, and Freemius uninstall handling.
0.9.0
- Initial release.
- Added local product metadata and storefront renderer.
- Added batched scanner, resumable reports, in-scope scoring, filters, and CSV export.
- Added automatic or manual block/shortcode placement, privacy text, cleanup, and WP-CLI commands.
- Added validated electronic-contact handling, scan concurrency locks, and safe uninstall controls.