MultiAddons vs MetriPrice: Which WooCommerce Pricing Plugin Do You Need?

Who This Comparison Is For

Both of these are WooCommerce plugins that replace WooCommerce's default "one fixed price per SKU" model with something more flexible — but they solve almost entirely different problems, and picking the wrong one means you'll be back in the plugin repository within a week. This comparison is for store owners trying to figure out whether they need rule-based discounting (MultiAddons) or dimension-based price calculation (MetriPrice), since it's entirely possible a store could eventually want both.

Pricing Compared

Both plugins share an unusually generous free-tier posture, which is worth calling out since it's rare in the WooCommerce plugin space. MultiAddons is free on WordPress.org with no paywall on its core feature set — unlimited discount rules, tiered quantity pricing, role-based wholesale pricing, and scheduled promotions are all included with no account creation or license key required. MetriPrice takes the same approach from a different angle: its WordPress.org listing is free and fully functional with no feature lockout, meaning tiered pricing, waste percentage calculations, rounding rules, and width×height matrices are all available for free. Both have a paid ceiling somewhere — MultiAddons is compared against competitors like WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing ($79/year) and Pricify/Advanced Dynamic Pricing, which cap free rules or gate role-based pricing behind Pro; MetriPrice has a separate MetriPrice Pro product sold directly on metriprice.com, though specific Pro pricing and feature differences aren't published yet. In both cases, the practical advice is the same: install the free version first, since it may cover everything you need.

Feature Comparison

The core difference is what each plugin is actually calculating. MultiAddons is a discounting engine — it takes an existing product price and reduces it based on rules: buy-more-save-more quantity tiers, role-based wholesale discounts, scheduled date-based promotions, and cart-level spend thresholds, all configured through a no-code rule builder in the WordPress admin. MetriPrice, by contrast, isn't discounting anything — it's calculating a price that doesn't exist yet, based on customer-entered dimensions or quantities, using formulas like waste percentage add-ons, rounding rules, and width×height pricing matrices for products where price doesn't scale linearly (like glass or mirror cutting). MultiAddons assumes your product already has a sensible base price and you want to adjust it by volume, role, or timing. MetriPrice assumes your product's price is fundamentally a function of measurement and there's no sensible single "price" until the customer specifies dimensions. MetriPrice also calculates server-side, so the live price a shopper sees updating on the product page is the actual charged price — a specific accuracy guarantee that isn't part of what MultiAddons is built to solve, since MultiAddons isn't dealing with customer-entered measurements at all.

Side-by-Side

	MultiAddons Bulk Product & Cart Discount	MetriPrice
Price	Free, no paid tier mentioned	Free with full features; separate Pro product exists but pricing/details unpublished
Best for	Stores wanting quantity discounts, wholesale role pricing, or scheduled sales	Stores selling by square foot, linear measurement, or custom dimension (wallpaper, flooring, fabric, glass, signage)
Standout feature	Unlimited free discount rules with role-based wholesale pricing and no account required	Server-side dimension-based pricing with live on-page price calculation as shoppers type
Platform	WooCommerce (WordPress.org listed)	WooCommerce (WordPress.org listed)
Maturity	Established plugin category with several direct competitors (WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing, Pricify, Advanced Dynamic Pricing)	New plugin, no long changelog history or large install base yet

Which One Should You Install?

If your products already have a fixed, sensible price and you want to encourage bigger orders, reward wholesale accounts, or run a scheduled sale without touching prices manually, MultiAddons is the right tool — it's mature territory with direct competitors, and MultiAddons' pitch is that it does the essentials for free where those competitors charge or cap you.

If your problem is the opposite — you don't have a fixed price at all because the real cost depends on width, height, or quantity ordered, like a flooring, fabric, wallpaper, or glass business — MultiAddons won't help you, because it discounts existing prices rather than calculating new ones. MetriPrice is purpose-built for exactly that gap, and its free tier is unusually complete for a newer plugin.

A store could plausibly run both at once: MetriPrice to calculate the correct dimension-based price for a custom-cut product, and MultiAddons layered on top to give wholesale accounts a role-based discount on that calculated price. Since neither plugin requires an account or license key to test, evaluating both against your actual catalog costs nothing but setup time — expect roughly 15-30 minutes to get a first MultiAddons rule set working, and budget more testing time for MetriPrice given it's newer and calculates real charged prices server-side, so formula errors show up as real pricing mistakes rather than display glitches.