Miscellaneous Admin Utilities
The Admin Utilities feature in the Toolkit for SureCart addon provides essential tools to streamline admin workflows, improve product pages, enhance the customer dashboard, manage order badges and retries, customize login and logout redirects, rename dashboard menus, and simplify site management with shortcuts and sync tools.
⚡Quick Highlights
- Improve product pages with flexible pricing, external product options, and descriptive labels
Enhance the customer dashboard with customizable menus, redirects, and reordering tools
Streamline admin workflows with helpful badges, actions, and efficiency-focused tools
Streamline Admin And Customer Workflows With With SureCart Admin Utilities
Hello, I’m Nelson Miller, the owner of SurelyWP and the creator of this addon for SureCart. I enjoy developing tools that help you succeed, and I hope you find this one beneficial! If you have any questions, please feel free to send me a message.
Admin Utilities
Use Cases
Explore these popular ways store owners and admins are using admin utilities.
Simplify Product Management
Make product pages easier to manage and more informative for customers.
Enhance Customer Experience
Provide a more intuitive dashboard and smoother navigation.
Boost Admin Efficiency
Quickly identify important orders and take action faster.
Consistent Site Setup
Apply preferred admin utilities across multiple sites with import/export.
Simplify Daily Admin Tasks
Speed up your workflow with quick-access tools and admin bar shortcuts.
What To Expect From SurelyWP And Toolkit/Admin Utilities
Seamless Integration
Every SurelyWP addon is carefully designed to fit naturally within the SureCart workflow and interface, making it intuitive and easy to use.
Dedicated Expertise
Our development team works exclusively on SureCart addons, combining deep knowledge of its codebase with a love for the platform.
Friendly Support
We provide personal support whenever needed, helping customers get the most out of their addons and solving any technical problems quickly.
Trusted Quality
Our addons are built to the highest standards, delivering reliable performance that customers count on for their ecommerce stores.
Customer Focused
Most of our features and addons are inspired by conversations with customers, using your feedback to decide what we work on next.
Admin Utilities Settings
Explore all the settings to configure and customize the Admin Utilities feature!
NOTE: We display all settings, options, and interface screenshots directly on this product page rather than hiding them in separate documentation. This ensures complete transparency so you can see exactly what the plugin offers before purchasing. You can refer back here anytime while configuring and using the plugin, or after we release updates, to always find the latest information.
Product Page & Pricing Display Enhancements
Pricing is one of the most important conversion elements in your store. Toolkit for SureCart gives you deeper control over how prices are presented, explained, and visually emphasized on your product pages. These enhancements help reduce confusion, improve clarity, and increase buyer confidence by making pricing more transparent and visually intuitive.
External/Affiliate Products
Easily sell external or affiliate products directly from your SureCart store. This feature integrates directly into the SureCart product settings, allowing you to link a product to any external URL while preserving the overall shopping experience and layout of your store.
- Custom Product URL: Direct customers to any external or affiliate product page.
- Customizable Button Text: Change the call-to-action on each product as needed.
- New Tab Option: Choose whether links open in the same tab or a new one.
This is perfect for affiliate marketers, dropshippers, or anyone who wants to showcase products from other websites without handling fulfillment. Simply enable the option and start selling external products today! 🚀
Write And Display Descriptions for Each SureCart Price Option
This feature allows you to write custom descriptions for each individual price option inside a SureCart product. These descriptions appear directly on the frontend alongside the pricing choices, giving customers additional context about what each plan or pricing tier includes.
You can control how descriptions are displayed using a dedicated setting. Choose to show all price descriptions at once for full comparison visibility, or display only the description for the currently selected price to keep the layout clean and focused. This is especially useful for membership tiers, service packages, software plans, and any product with multiple pricing structures.
Selected Price Highlighting & Radio Button Indicators
Improve pricing clarity by visually emphasizing the selected price option. When enabled, the chosen price can be highlighted using your site’s accent color, making it immediately clear which option is active.
You can also display a radio-style selection indicator within each price option to reinforce the selection state. These visual enhancements help customers confidently understand their choice, reduce hesitation, and create a more modern, polished pricing interface.
Price-Based Downloads
Assign downloadable files to specific price options within a product. Instead of attaching the same files to every price, you can choose exactly which downloads belong to each pricing tier.
This is particularly useful when offering tiered digital products, bundled content, or upgraded versions of a download. Customers will only receive access to the files associated with the specific price they purchase, giving you precise control over digital fulfillment.
You can even assign multiple download files to each individual product price instead of being limited to a single file. Customers only receive access to the files associated with the specific price they purchased, making this ideal for tiered digital products, memberships, premium downloads, and bundled content.
Price & Stock Display in Variant Option Cards
Enhance the variant selection experience by displaying pricing and stock availability directly within each variant option card. Instead of simple text-based option pills, customers see richer option blocks that clearly show the associated price and availability status before making a selection.
Unavailable options can be visually indicated, helping prevent confusion and improving overall product clarity. This is especially valuable for products with multiple variations where pricing or stock levels differ between options.
Already Purchased Notice
Display a contextual notice directly on SureCart product pages when a logged-in customer has already purchased the product. This feature helps prevent duplicate purchases by clearly showing relevant purchase details, including previous orders, selected variations, active subscriptions, and available downloads. It also provides quick access to actions such as viewing orders, managing subscriptions, or downloading files, giving customers immediate clarity without having to navigate away from the product page.
Product Brands Taxonomy
Organize your products using a dedicated Brand taxonomy. This allows you to assign brands to products for better filtering, structured catalog organization, and improved frontend display options.
Brand organization is useful for multi-brand stores, vendor-style marketplaces, or curated product catalogs. It enables brand-based filtering, structured browsing, and enhanced product grouping across your store.
Customer Dashboard & Account Experience Enhancements
Managing the customer experience doesn’t stop at checkout. Toolkit for SureCart enhances the customer dashboard, order management interface, and login behavior to give you more control over how customers interact with their accounts.
These settings help streamline account actions, improve clarity, and guide customers through the post-purchase experience more effectively.
Custom Login And Logout Redirects
Enhance the customer experience with personalized login and logout redirects for your SureCart store. This feature gives you complete control over where customers are taken after signing in or out of their accounts, ensuring a smoother and more predefined journey.
- Custom Login Redirect URL – Define a specific page for customers to land on after logging into the SureCart Customer Dashboard, such as a personalized welcome page or a special offers section.
- Custom Logout Redirect URL – Redirect customers to a designated page, like your homepage or a thank-you page, after they log out.
- Role-Based Login Redirects NEW– Set different login destinations based on user roles, ensuring vendors, affiliates, or other specific groups land on the most relevant page.
This flexible and powerful feature ensures every step of the customer journey aligns with your store’s goals and provides a smooth user experience.
Prevent Subscription Downgrades
Protect your revenue by preventing customers from downgrading to lower subscription tiers directly from their account dashboard.
When enabled, customers attempting to downgrade will see a clear message explaining that downgrades are not permitted. This is particularly useful for membership sites, software subscriptions, or tiered access products where reducing plan levels could disrupt access rules or create billing complications.
You retain full control over upgrade flexibility while preventing unintended revenue loss from self-service downgrades.
Link Product Names To Product Pages
One thing I always found a little confusing in the SureCart Customer Dashboard is that product names look clickable on the order details page, but they aren’t. Toolkit fixes this by allowing product names to become clickable links whenever a public product page exists.
This makes it much easier for customers to revisit products, purchase again, or review product information without manually searching your store. Products without a public product page continue to display as plain text.
Order Again Button
Allow customers to quickly reorder a previously purchased product directly from their dashboard.
The “Order Again” button appears within the customer’s order history, providing a fast way to repeat purchases without navigating back through product listings. This is especially helpful for consumables, repeat services, digital renewals, or commonly repurchased items.
Reducing friction for repeat buyers can significantly improve lifetime value and customer convenience.
Custom Redirect For “Back Home” Button In The Customer Dashboard
We’ve added a setting to customize where customers go when clicking the “Back Home” button in the SureCart Customer Dashboard. Instead of always returning to the homepage, you can now set a custom URL that better fits your store’s navigation, such as going to the main Customer Dashboard, which is probably what users expect when clicking that button.
Change Customer Dashboard Menu Text When Logged Out
This feature dynamically updates the navigation menu text for a better user experience. When users are not logged in, the menu item labeled “Customer Dashboard” automatically changes to “Login” (or any custom text you specify).
You can easily customize this text through an input field and target specific menus by assigning them the surelywp-rename-menu CSS class. This ensures seamless and intuitive navigation for both logged-in and logged-out users.
Display Specific Price And Variant Prices Anywhere With Shortcodes
SureCart doesn’t natively provide a way to display the price of a specific pricing option or variant, so we built this feature for you! With our shortcodes, you can effortlessly display any product’s price by copying its Price ID or Variant Price ID directly from the product page and pasting it into the shortcode.
This feature is perfect for use cases like adding pricing details alongside Add to Cart or Buy Now buttons on any page of your site, regardless of the page builder you use. It’s also ideal for creating pricing tables to showcase multiple options with clear and accurate pricing information.
What makes this even better is the ability to display sale prices with style. You can show the original price crossed out alongside the sale price, complete with a customizable sale badge label. This flexibility ensures your pricing details look professional and engaging, no matter where they appear on your site.
Admin Experience & Productivity Enhancements
This set of features improves workflow, visibility, and efficiency in the SureCart admin. Each tool is designed to save time, reduce errors, and give you more control over your store—without changing the core SureCart behavior. Below are all the key enhancements you can leverage:
Order Logs
Toolkit includes a built-in logging system that records important events related to SureCart orders and subscriptions. This makes troubleshooting significantly easier by providing visibility into actions that normally happen behind the scenes.
Whether you’re diagnosing payment issues, tracking automated processes, or helping a customer understand what happened with an order, logs provide valuable context without requiring external debugging tools.
Dedicated Installments Management Screen
Toolkit adds a dedicated Installments submenu beneath the SureCart Subscriptions menu, making it much easier to manage installment payment plans without sorting through your entire subscriptions list. This provides a focused view of installment subscriptions while keeping the standard SureCart workflow intact.
The Installments screen includes powerful filtering and search capabilities, allowing you to quickly narrow results by subscription status or billing interval. Whether you’re reviewing active installment plans, checking past due payments, or managing monthly or yearly installments, everything is organized into a dedicated interface designed to save time and improve day-to-day subscription management.
Limit Product Purchase Quantities
Some products should only be purchased a limited number of times, whether you’re selling licenses, event registrations, exclusive products, or digital downloads. Toolkit allows you to configure purchase quantity limits on a per-product basis while giving you complete control over the customer experience.
Set the maximum quantity allowed, customize the message shown when the limit is reached, and let Toolkit intelligently enforce the restriction across the product page, cart, and checkout. If customers attempt to exceed the limit, only the remaining allowed quantity is added automatically, creating a smooth purchasing experience instead of unexpected errors.
SureCart Shortcut Links In Admin Bar
Easily access all your SureCart-related tools directly from the WordPress admin bar. This feature organizes and displays links to essential SureCart pages at the top of your site for quick navigation. Additionally, an optional link is included to open the SureCart app, allowing seamless management of your connected account.
Restore Product Page Click-to-Edit
This feature re-enables the click-to-edit shortcut directly from the WordPress admin bar, letting you jump straight into the product editor from the product page view, like you could in the past before SureCart added the dropdown. I can’t tell you how many times I clicked here expecting the product editor to load, so this feature was created out of necessity!
Disable the SureCart Chat Window
For stores that don’t need the built-in chat window, Toolkit includes a simple setting to disable it entirely. This may sound simple since they have their own setting for this, but think of this in terms of importing and exporting our Toolkit settings on new sites, and it makes sense to have it in the plugin.
Hide SureCart Learn Menu And Badge
If you don’t use SureCart’s Learn area, Toolkit lets you clean up the WordPress admin menu by hiding it completely or simply removing the unfinished task badge.
These small interface improvements help reduce distractions and keep the admin sidebar focused on the areas your team actually uses every day.
Affiliate Request Notification Badge
Never miss an affiliate request. This feature adds a notification badge in the SureCart admin menu whenever a new affiliate request is pending, making it easy to act promptly and maintain engagement with your affiliates.
Helpful Product Edit Screen Notices
When editing a product, it’s easy to lose track of its visibility status. This feature displays a clear admin notice when a product is set to Draft or marked as Unavailable for Purchase. You’ll always know if a product is visible to customers, preventing accidental mistakes on your storefront.
Show “Recovered” Badge for Recovered Orders
The new “Recovered” Badge setting offers clear visibility into orders that have been successfully recovered from the abandoned checkout system. When enabled, this badge will appear on the order details page for any order that has been recovered, making it easier for admins to identify those purchases that were reactivated after being abandoned.
This simple yet effective feature helps store owners track the success of their abandoned cart recovery efforts and provides additional clarity in managing orders.
Retry Payment Option for Failed Orders (Admin)
By default, if you need to manually retry a payment in SureCart, there is no option to do it from the actual failed order. You would need to navigate to the associated subscription and then click the 3 dots menu, and retry the payment from there, which is not ideal.
With Toolkit For SureCart 1.2, we’ve introduced a “Retry Payment” option directly in the Actions menu for any order with a failed payment. This allows admins to manually retry the payment without leaving the order screen.
Show Payment Processing Fees And Net Payout On Orders
Toolkit can now display the actual payment processing fees charged by Stripe and PayPal directly on the SureCart order details page. This gives store owners immediate insight into transaction costs and net payout without opening up Stripe or PayPal in a new window. This is especially useful if your store has a policy of deducting payment processing fees from refunds.
Block Specific Customers From Purchasing
Prevent unwanted or problematic transactions with ease. You can block purchases from individual customers using their email address or IP address. Optionally, display a custom message to explain why the purchase cannot be completed, keeping the interaction professional and clear. This feature gives you direct control over edge cases without affecting your regular workflow.
