FAQ

Does Pair require WooCommerce?

Yes. Pair works with WooCommerce products. If WooCommerce is inactive, Pair shows an admin notice and does not register storefront hooks.

How are recommendations chosen?

Each block has a strategy. Pair can recommend products from the same categories, products sharing tags, best sellers, newest products or products the shopper recently viewed.

If there are not enough matches, Pair fills the block with recent products.

How does recently viewed work?

When a shopper opens a product, Pair stores that product ID in a first-party cookie on the shopper’s device. It stores product IDs only and does not send data to an external service.

Does Pair replace WooCommerce upsells and cross-sells?

No. Native WooCommerce upsells and cross-sells stay untouched. Pair adds an automatic recommendation block for stores that do not want to curate suggestions product by product.

Can I hide out-of-stock products?

Yes. Enable Only recommend products that are in stock under WooCommerce → Pair recommendations.

Does it load JavaScript on the storefront?

No. Pair renders server-side through WooCommerce product templates and adds only a small stylesheet. There is no custom frontend JavaScript.

Can I place recommendations manually?

Yes. Use [pair_recommendations]. On product pages it uses the current product; elsewhere it uses the cart. Use [pair_recently_viewed] for a dedicated recently viewed block.

Can I choose the strategy in a shortcode?

Yes. Use the strategy attribute, for example [pair_recommendations strategy="bestsellers" count="4"].

Does it create custom database tables?

No. Pair stores settings in WordPress options and uses WooCommerce products, categories and sales data.

What happens on uninstall?

The uninstall routine removes the pair_settings and pair_db_version options.