Description
IDS Areamiq helps customers buy flooring and other coverage-based products by area. Customers enter the area they need, or length × width, and the calculator converts it to the required number of whole packs or units. Products can also allow direct whole-unit purchases.
Calculator features
- Area-based calculation with an optional waste allowance.
- Direct whole-unit purchasing, area-only purchasing, or both methods on one product.
- Pack, bucket, liter, bag and roll coverage modes with configurable singular and plural unit labels.
- Thickness-aware calculation for bagged products such as screeds and self-levelling compounds.
- Configurable coverage per unit, minimum quantity and unit-content text.
- Pack/unit pricing or price-per-m² configuration for supported simple products.
- Live calculation and price presentation on the product page.
- Server-side purchase validation and quantity calculation.
- Calculator details in the WooCommerce cart and order line-item metadata.
- HPOS compatibility through WooCommerce order APIs.
Store and administration tools
[ids_floorcalc id="123"]shortcode for placing a product calculator in a page or post.- Optional iframe Embed utility with domain restrictions and rate limiting. Off by default; enable Embed widget under Settings > Features. Configure allowed domains in Embed Widget; an empty list allows any site once enabled.
- Setup Wizard for applying initial calculator settings to products.
- Per-product calculator settings and global Free defaults.
- Free CSV import/export for calculator product configuration.
- Product-list bulk actions for enabling, disabling and configuring calculator fields.
- Free System Status diagnostics.
- Optional shop-loop coverage badge, result sharing controls and live price display.
- Bulgarian translation included.
- Theme template override at
your-theme/ids-floorcalc/calculator.php.
Screenshots
Installation
- Upload the
ids-areamiqfolder to/wp-content/plugins/, or upload the plugin ZIP through Plugins Add New Upload Plugin. - Activate IDS Areamiq.
- Complete the Setup Wizard or open IDS Areamiq Settings to configure Free defaults and features.
- Edit a WooCommerce product, open the IDS Areamiq product-data tab, enable the calculator and configure its coverage settings.
FAQ
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How does area purchasing work?
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The customer enters an area or length × width. IDS Areamiq applies the configured waste allowance, divides the adjusted area by the effective coverage per unit, rounds up to whole units and respects the configured minimum quantity.
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Can customers buy a direct number of packs or units?
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Yes. Each product can use area-only purchasing, direct whole-unit purchasing, or allow the customer to choose either method.
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How are screeds and other thickness-dependent products handled?
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Bag mode uses the configured reference thickness. Effective coverage scales inversely when the customer chooses a different layer thickness.
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Does it work with variable products?
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The calculator supports simple and variable product pages, with calculator configuration stored on the parent product. Automatic price-per-m² conversion is limited to supported simple products; variations continue to use their normal WooCommerce prices.
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Can I override the calculator template?
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Yes. Copy
templates/calculator.phptoyour-theme/ids-floorcalc/calculator.phpand customize the copy. -
How do I place a calculator in a page or post?
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Use
[ids_floorcalc id="123"], replacing123with the WooCommerce product ID. -
Can other websites embed the calculator?
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Yes. Enable the Free Embed feature and use IDS Areamiq Embed to generate an iframe snippet. Embed settings can restrict which domains may frame the calculator.
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Contributors & Developers
“IDS Areamiq — Coverage Calculator for WooCommerce” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.1.0
- Use WooCommerce General Regular/Sale prices as the sole pricing authority: per m² in sqm mode, per purchasable unit in pack mode.
- Derive purchase-unit and equivalent per-m² prices from the selected basis without rewriting General values.
- Keep calculator cart quantities editable above their minimum; preserve explicit-unit lines on below-minimum updates.
- Preserve native WooCommerce variation pricing, including products with retained per-m² metadata.
- Correct tax-aware price display, disabled-calculator presentation and repeated price-filter handling.
- Align frontend and server calculations and avoid extra units at exact coverage boundaries.
- Improve CSV configuration and formula-safe round trips; prevent CSV export deprecations on PHP 8.4/8.5.
- Clarify pack, bucket, bag, roll and container pricing labels and read-only admin previews.
- Refine shop-loop price hierarchy and respect the badge setting without hiding per-m² pricing.
- Reject malformed admin nonce inputs before verification and prevent calculator purchases with invalid calculation snapshots.
- Default Embed to off for new configurations while preserving saved preferences.
- Skip Setup Wizard redirects after bulk or network activation.
- Refresh Bulgarian translations and bundled translation catalogs.
1.0.0
- Initial public release.
- Area and direct-unit purchasing for packs, buckets, liters, bags and rolls.
- Waste, minimum quantity and thickness-aware coverage calculations.
- WooCommerce cart integration and order line-item metadata.
- Shortcode, Embed, Setup Wizard, Free CSV tools, bulk actions and System Status.