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Chit bridges your physical sales and your WooCommerce digital downloads. Print a code on a card, sticker, leaflet, or receipt; the customer enters the code on your site to receive access to the product’s downloadable files. Picture this for selling in person at a market – you’re selling your books but normally through webstore orders people get a PDF download too. This squares the circle.
It plugs into WooCommerce’s existing download system rather than reinventing it. When a code is redeemed, Chit creates a real (zero-total) WooCommerce order for the customer, marks it complete, and WooCommerce grants the download permissions exactly as it would for a paid order. The redemption appears in the customer’s My Account Downloads page and in WooCommerce Orders with a note explaining its origin.
What you get
- Batch generation — generate any number of codes for a product in one go, with optional batch notes (e.g. “Christmas flyer 2025” or “Games day 2026”) so you can find them later.
- Configurable code format — set your own prefix (or none) and the code body (e.g. 2 groups of 4, 3 groups of 4, 2 groups of 6) under Chit Settings, with a live preview. Defaults to
CHIT-XXXX-XXXX. - Crockford-base32 characters — no ambiguous characters (no 0/O, 1/I/L, or U/V confusion) so codes are easy to read off prints.
- Admin code browser — list table with status, batch, and product filters; sortable columns; per-row Revoke action; pagination.
- Customer-facing redemption page — auto-created on activation with the
[chit_redeem]shortcode. Requires login (codes are tied to user accounts so customers can re-download anytime). - CSV import — migrate codes you issued elsewhere, including their redemption state, under Chit Import. Streams the file in background batches, so six-figure row counts are fine; a dry run validates everything before a single row is written.
- CSV export — three-column export (code, product name, redeem URL) suitable for mail merges or label printing.
- PDF-ready print sheet — 2×5 grid of cards per A4 page, each card showing product name, SKU, code, and the redeem URL. Uses the browser’s native “Save as PDF” so quality is excellent and there are no third-party dependencies.
- Reports — at-a-glance counts (unused / activated / revoked) plus a top-products breakdown with activation rates.
How it integrates with WooCommerce
Chit does not maintain its own download permissions. On activation it creates a WooCommerce order on the customer’s account with the redeemed product as a line item and a $0 total, then sets the order status to completed. WooCommerce’s existing download-permission machinery takes care of the rest: the customer sees the order in their account, the download file appears in My Account Downloads, the download counter and any expiry rules you have configured all behave normally.
Орнотуу
- Upload the
chitfolder towp-content/plugins/(or install via the Plugins screen). - Activate Chit through the Plugins screen.
- A “Redeem Chit Code” page is created automatically and assigned the
[chit_redeem]shortcode. You can find it under Pages, rename it, or move it under another menu as you like. - Go to Chit Settings to set your code format (prefix, length, grouping) — or keep the default.
- Generate your first batch under Chit Generate.
Requirements
- WordPress 6.0 or newer
- WooCommerce 5.0 or newer
- PHP 7.4 or newer
- At least one downloadable WooCommerce product (a product with the “Downloadable” checkbox enabled and one or more files attached)
FAQ.KG
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Where does the customer enter their code?
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On the auto-created Redeem Chit Code page (slug
/redeem-chit-code/by default). The page contains the[chit_redeem]shortcode, which renders the redemption form. You can move the shortcode to any other page or post and link to it from your menus. -
Does the customer need an account?
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Yes. Codes grant download permission to a specific WooCommerce account so the customer can re-download the file later. Guests who try to redeem are sent to the login page first.
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Can I change what the codes look like?
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Yes. Chit Settings lets you set the prefix (including removing it entirely) and the shape of the code body — how many groups of how many characters, e.g. 2 groups of 6. Changing the format only affects newly generated codes — everything you’ve already issued keeps working exactly as printed, because redemption matches the stored code, not the current format.
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I already have codes from another system. Can I bring them in?
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Yes — Chit Import accepts a CSV with the columns
code,sku,status,activated_at,activated_email(a sample file is downloadable on that page). Codes keep their status, so already-used codes stay used. The import runs in the background via WooCommerce’s scheduler, handles hundreds of thousands of rows, skips duplicates, and every import can be deleted again in one click. -
Can the same code be redeemed twice?
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No. Codes are single-use. Once redeemed, the status flips to
activatedpermanently. If you need multi-use license-key behaviour, that’s a different use case and not currently supported. -
I generated 50 codes for the wrong product. Can I cancel them?
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Yes. Visit Chit View Codes, filter by the batch number, and click Revoke on each (or use the batch dropdown to scope the list). Revoked codes can’t be redeemed.
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How are PDFs generated?
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The Print PDF action opens a standalone HTML page laid out for A4 print; you then use your browser’s Print Save as PDF option.
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The customer gets a “your order is complete” email after redeeming. Is that intentional?
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It’s WooCommerce’s default behaviour for any order moving to completed status. The email is useful as it contains the download link.
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What about uninstalling?
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Deactivating leaves your data intact. Deleting the plugin from the Plugins screen runs the uninstall script, which drops the
chit_codesandchit_batchestables and clears the related options. The auto-created redemption page is not deleted — you can remove it manually from Pages Trash. -
What capability is required for admin actions?
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manage_woocommerce — the same capability WooCommerce uses for its own back-office screens. Shop managers can use Chit; regular subscribers cannot.
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1.1
- New: configurable code format — prefix (or none) and code body shape, with live preview, under Chit Settings.
- New: CSV import (Chit Import) for codes issued elsewhere, including their redemption state. Dry-run validation, background processing via Action Scheduler, resumable, with one-click rollback per import.
- Fix: fatal error on PHP 7.4.
- Fix: redemption orders are now genuinely zero-total by default; previously they always booked the product’s catalog price. A new setting under Chit Settings Redemption orders (or the
chit_redemption_zero_totalfilter) restores the old behaviour. - Database: the codes table now accepts codes up to 64 characters (imported codes); generated codes are unchanged.
1.0
- Initial release.