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# Welcome to ProductReels

Turn product videos into shoppable reels for WooCommerce and WordPress. Every feature is free.

ProductReels lets you show short vertical videos on your store and connect them to the products in them. A shopper taps a reel, watches it full screen, sees the product card and adds the product to their cart without leaving the video.

You can use it for product demos, customer videos (UGC), tutorials, unboxings, reviews and launch teasers.

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**ProductReels is completely free.** There is no Pro version, no licence key and no locked features.
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## A quick example

Luma Skincare is a small WooCommerce store that sells a vitamin C serum. The owner films a 20-second clip of a customer applying the serum and uploads it to ProductReels as a **reel**. They tag the serum product, so a product card with an **Add to cart** button sits under the video.

Next they create a **widget**, which is a carousel holding that reel and five others. They paste the shortcode `[productreels id="3"]` into the homepage. Visitors now see a row of vertical videos, and each one leads to a product they can buy.

The rest of this guide shows you how to do the same.

## What you can build

| You want to…                                   | Use this                                                                 |
| ---------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Show a row of videos on your homepage          | [Homepage reel slider](/product-reels/recipes/homepage-reel-slider.md)   |
| Add product videos under the product photos    | [Product page carousel](/product-reels/recipes/product-page-carousel.md) |
| Show round "stories" for your categories       | [Story-style category reels](/product-reels/recipes/category-stories.md) |
| Show a small video in the corner of the screen | [Floating popup reel](/product-reels/recipes/floating-popup.md)          |
| Fill a landing page with customer videos       | [Grid layout](/product-reels/widgets/layouts.md#grid)                    |

## How this guide is organised

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Getting started</strong></td><td>Install the plugin and publish your first reel in about ten minutes.</td><td><a href="/product-reels/getting-started/quick-start.md">Quick start: your first reel</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Reels</strong></td><td>Add videos, choose covers, tag products and add buttons.</td><td><a href="/product-reels/reels/add-a-reel.md">Add a reel</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Widgets</strong></td><td>Group reels and style how they look on the page.</td><td><a href="/product-reels/widgets/create-a-widget.md">Create a widget</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Place it</strong></td><td>Add a widget with a shortcode, the block editor or Elementor.</td><td><a href="/product-reels/place-it/shortcodes.md">Shortcodes</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Recipes</strong></td><td>Step-by-step setups based on real store scenarios.</td><td><a href="/product-reels/recipes/homepage-reel-slider.md">Homepage reel slider</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Developers</strong></td><td>Hooks, filters and the REST API.</td><td><a href="/product-reels/developers/hooks-and-filters.md">Hooks and filters</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

## Requirements

| Requirement | Minimum                                                    |
| ----------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
| WordPress   | 6.6                                                        |
| PHP         | 7.4                                                        |
| WooCommerce | Optional. You need it to tag products and use Add to cart. |
| Elementor   | Optional. You need it only for the Elementor widget.       |

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ProductReels works on a regular WordPress site without WooCommerce. Reels, widgets, custom buttons and statistics all work. Only product tagging and Add to cart need WooCommerce.
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