Plugins built for real shops
We run our own WooCommerce stores. These started life fixing our problems.
Every plugin here runs in production on our own retail stores, processing real orders every day. When an off-the-shelf plugin let us down, we built the replacement properly. Now you can have them too, and if your store needs something that does not exist yet, we build to order at a fixed price.
Ready-made plugins
Tested on our own stores first. Ask us for any of these and we will set you up.
Penguin Custom Order Numbers
Sequential order numbers that can never clash.
Prefix, suffix and leading zeros on your WooCommerce order numbers, with race-safe atomic numbering so two orders placed at the same moment can never share a number. We built it after a popular order-number plugin handed our own store duplicate numbers during busy spells. It keeps your existing numbers, and it ships with a tool that finds and fixes duplicates left behind by whatever you used before.
- Drop-in replacement, keeps existing order numbers
- Prefix, suffix and zero-padding options
- Finds and repairs duplicate numbers from old plugins
FP Order Search
Instant admin order search across your whole history.
Type a name, postcode, phone number or product and matching orders appear as you type, however many years of orders you have. It is a drop-in replacement for the Algolia-powered order search plugin, without the third-party search subscription. We run it across three stores of our own with the full back catalogue indexed.
- Results as you type, across full order history
- Searches names, emails, phones, postcodes and items
- Replaces the Algolia search plugin and its fees
BulkGate SMS Order Notes
Every customer text logged on the order timeline.
If you text customers through BulkGate, this logs every message, automated or sent by hand, straight onto the WooCommerce order notes. Anyone on the team can open an order and see exactly what the customer was told and when.
- Automated and manual texts both captured
- Full message text on the order timeline
- No more "did anyone tell the customer?"
FlyingPenguin Chat Widget
Your AI chatbot on the store, with sensible manners.
Puts our AI chatbot on your WooCommerce store with one setting, and gives you tick-boxes to keep it off the basket, checkout and order confirmation pages so it never gets between a customer and a sale.
- One-setting install for our chatbot customers
- Keeps the widget off basket and checkout
- Works with any of our store chatbots
Bespoke plugin builds
When a store needs something no plugin does, we build it. Two examples running live right now.
GSM Order Manager
Built for a three-store motorsport retail group
An operations console inside WooCommerce: supplier order forms emailed as PDFs straight from the order screen, item summaries in the admin order list, and customer messaging by email and SMS without leaving the order. Built feature by feature around how the warehouse actually works.
Brick Club Dispatch
Runs a LEGO Technic rental subscription end to end
A rental business inside WordPress: customer subscriptions, a dispatch portal for picking and packing, returns handling and shipping labels. The plugin is the business; the team runs their whole day from it.
Need a plugin your store is missing?
Tell us what is slowing your shop down and we will tell you honestly whether an existing plugin already does it, one of ours fits, or it is worth building. Fixed quotes, no surprises.
Author on every plugin: FlyingPenguin.ai. Clean code, no phoning home, updates included.