Automatic Product Categories for WooCommerce

Save hours of manual work by automating how your WooCommerce products are categorized.

Automatic Product Categories helps you keep your store structured, searchable, and up-to-date – whether you’re managing 30 or 3,000 products.

Define flexible rules to assign product categories and tags based on product data, events, or schedules – no coding required.

Build rules with many condition types (including stock status, whether stock is managed, attribute values, attribute term names, and category lists with is/is not matching), reorder conditions as needed, and use inline help where selections work as multiselects.

Example use cases

• After imports or migrations – bring large catalogs in line by assigning categories and tags from product data as you standardize.
• Parent and child categories – e.g. when a product is in a child category, automatically add a parent category too.
• Stock or sales-based merchandising – organize or highlight products using stock status, stock quantity, total sales, or sale state.
• “New” or “recently updated” collections – use days since created or modified to keep time-based categories or tags accurate.
• Seasonal or promotional groups – move products in or out of promo categories using titles, tags, attributes, or scheduled runs.

More context and ideas on the BerryPress blog.

Features

✅ Rule-based automation for WooCommerce products
✅ Automatically assign (add or remove) categories and tags based on product data
✅ Broad set of rule conditions – see the Available conditions section
✅ Reorder conditions in the rule editor
✅ Support for custom fields (product meta)
✅ Event triggers (on product creation or update)
✅ Scheduled rule execution (run daily)
✅ Works with variable, grouped, and simple products

Available conditions

These conditions are included in the free plugin (match types vary by condition – text, numeric, exact list, is/is not, and taxonomy-style rules where noted):

• Title – product title
• Description – product description
• Price – product price
• Total sales – lifetime sales amount
• Type – product type (simple, variable, etc.)
• Days since created / days since modified – time since product dates
• Status – post status (published, draft, etc.)
• Stock status – WooCommerce stock status (including products without manage stock)
• Manage stock enabled – yes/no
• Stock quantity – numeric quantity when stock is managed
• Is on sale – yes/no
• Attribute value – pick an attribute and match term(s); supports is/is not style matching
• Attribute term name – text comparison against attribute term names across all product attributes
• Meta field – value of a chosen product meta key
• Category value – pick categories from a list; match whether the product is / is not in those categories
• Category names – text matching against assigned category names (several match modes)
• Tag names – text matching against assigned tag names (several match modes)

Pro adds more conditions, extra match types for list-based conditions, custom-taxonomy actions, and the workflow features below. Details: Automatic Product Categories Pro.

🚀 Pro Features

Automatic Product Categories PRO extends the free plugin with stronger rule management, richer conditions, and safer testing.

Rule management & workflow

Read the full description on the official page →