NextXen Designer – Product Customizer for WooCommerce

NextXen Designer gives your WooCommerce store a fully interactive product customization canvas powered by Fabric.js. Customers add text, upload photos, place shapes, and browse clipart directly on a product mockup — then add their personalized design straight to the cart.

No external services. No monthly SaaS fees. Everything runs on your own server.

Free Features

Canvas & Tools

• Canvas designer — Fabric.js-powered design canvas with a live product mockup background
• Text tool — add text with font family, size, color, bold, italic, and alignment controls
• Image upload — customers upload their own JPG, PNG, GIF, or WebP images (configurable max size)
• Shapes — 10 shape types: rectangle, square, circle, ellipse, triangle, star, heart, pentagon, arrow, and line — each with fill, stroke, and opacity controls
• Clipart browser — browse and insert clipart from the admin-uploaded library
• Template browser — start from a pre-built design template
• Canvas toolbar — undo / redo (40-step history), delete, duplicate, bring forward / send backward, and align (left, center, right)
• Clear all — reset the canvas with a single click

Asset Libraries (Admin)

• Font library — upload TTF, OTF, WOFF, or WOFF2 custom fonts; they become available to customers in the text tool
• Clipart & SVG library — upload and manage SVG / PNG clipart; customers search and insert in one click
• Design templates — create pre-built designs that customers can load and customise

Product & Store Integration

• Per-product settings — enable the designer, set a mockup image, and configure canvas dimensions per product
• Design required — optionally force customers to add at least one element before adding to cart
• Cart integration — design thumbnail displayed in the cart alongside the product
• Checkout & order confirmation — thumbnail shown in checkout and order details pages
• Email integration — design thumbnail included in WooCommerce order confirmation emails
• Order management — view and download (PNG) customer design snapshots directly from the WooCommerce order screen
• Order design archive — browse all captured design snapshots with order links in NX Designer → Order Designs
• HPOS compatible — fully supports WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage (custom order tables)
• Google Fonts — configure a list of Google Fonts available to customers in the text tool
• Translation ready — ships with a complete .pot file; text domain nextxen-designer

Pro Features

Upgrade to NextXen Designer Pro for the full production workflow:

Design Canvas

• Multiple design surfaces — Front, Back, Sleeve, or any custom surface per product, each with its own mockup image and canvas size
• Advanced typography — letter spacing, line height, text shadow, and text outline controls
• QR code tool — customers generate a scannable QR code from any URL and place it on the canvas

Print & Fulfillment

• Print-ready PDF export — download a high-resolution, print-ready PDF of any order’s design from the order page
• Auto-email print files — automatically email print file download links to the store admin when an order is placed
• Configurable PDF settings — choose paper size (A4, A3, Letter, Legal) and bleed margin

Customer Experience

• Saved design library — logged-in customers save named designs to My Account → My Designs and resume or re-order them any time
• Design sharing — generate a shareable link so customers can send their design to others
• Price modifiers — charge extra per text element, per image element, or as a base design fee

Developer & Agency

• REST API — full CRUD REST API under nextxen-designer/v1 for headless or third-party integrations
• White label — replace all “NextXen Designer” branding in the WordPress admin with a neutral “Product Designer” label

Upgrade to Pro →

Built for Reliability

• All output is properly escaped; all database queries use $wpdb->prepare()
• Nonces on every AJAX request and form submission
• Capability checks on all admin-only endpoints
• File uploads handled entirely by WordPress’s own media_handle_upload()
• No external CDN dependencies — Fabric.js is bundled inside the plugin
• Design data snapshots are immutable — order records are never affected if a customer later edits or deletes their design

External Services

This plugin uses Freemius to handle license management, account registration, upgrade flows, and usage analytics. When a user opts in (consent is required before any data is sent), the following information is transmitted to Freemius servers (https://wp.freemius.com):

• WordPress admin email address, site URL, and WordPress/PHP versions (for license and account management)
• Plugin activation and deactivation events
• Anonymous aggregate usage data (only when the user explicitly opts in)

No data is sent to Freemius without the user’s explicit consent. You can review and manage connected sites from your Freemius account dashboard.

• Freemius Terms of Service: https://freemius.com/terms/
• Freemius Privacy Policy: https://freemius.com/privacy/