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ShapedRecommend vs Recommendation Engine

Both learn from your store’s orders. ShapedRecommend adds rules, more placements and coordination — so shoppers see the right offer, not every offer.

Feature by feature

ShapedRecommend Pro and Recommendation Engine compared
FeaturesShapedRecommend ProGet ProRecommendation Engineby Element Stark · $79 per year

Pricing & requirements

Free versionFree core plugin
Starting priceFree$79 per year
RequiresWordPress 6.6+, WooCommerceWordPress 6.5+, WooCommerce 9.0+

What gets recommended

Frequently bought together, mined from your orders
Others also bought (across a customer’s orders)
Products viewed together
Recently viewed products
Store-wide picks: best sellers, trending, new, featured, on sale
Picks you set with rules
Pinned products, always shown first
Reuse your WooCommerce up-sells & cross-sells first
Ready-made setups9 one-click templates3 automatic modules
On a store with few ordersRules work from day one; Statistics falls back to category & popularityStays sparse until history builds up

Filters

Category, tag, attribute & price
On sale, stock status & featured
Brand & minimum rating
Price relative to the viewed product
Exclude cart items & past purchases

Ranking

Bought together, popularity, priceBought or viewed together
Rating, freshness, conversion rate
Blend several ranking rules

Displays

Editable headingRename each module
Products to show1–20 per blockSet per widget
Grid columns per device
Matches your theme’s product cards
List layout
Bundle with one “Add bundle to cart”
Single offer: “Yes, add it” / “No thanks”
Popup with exit-intent, add-to-cart & cart-value triggers
CarouselComing soon

Placement

Product pageBefore tabs, after tabs, after meta, after add to cartFixed spot; reorder the modules
Cart pageBefore table, after totals, empty cart
Category & shop archives
Checkout: before form, after Place order
Thank-you page: before & after order details
Sidebar widgets
Shortcode
Gutenberg block
Hide WooCommerce’s native Related, Up-sells & Cross-sellsRelated products only

Visibility conditions

Cart total
Visitor: guest, returning or logged in
Schedule: weekdays, weekends or custom dates
Viewed category
Device

Recommendation Manager

No duplicate products across blocks
Limit blocks per page & offers per session
Order competing recommendationsStore-wide drag-and-drop priorityModule order on the product page
Choose the winner: priority, highest value or highest converting
Kill switch & suppression log

Analytics

Views of each recommendationTimes shown, per product
Clicks, add-to-cart & conversions
Gross & net revenue, orders, items sold
Conversion funnel
Revenue by source & by order
Attribution on the order page

Built for WooCommerce

Runs on your server, no outside service
Keeps data freshAuto-updates every 1–168 hoursScheduled & one-click background rebuilds
Cart & Checkout blocks
WP-CLI
Config import & export, revisions

Recommendation Engine details come from its WooCommerce Marketplace listing (version 4.0.1) and documentation, checked October 14, 2026. Anything not stated there is marked as not included.