WooCommerce 11.3 adds sale badge options and smoother mobile galleries

WooCommerce 11.3.0 is now available for download. The release gives store owners more control over how products and promotions appear, with new sale-badge options, expanded block styling, and smoother Product Gallery swipes on mobile.

The On-Sale Badge block can now display the discount amount or percentage, or custom text. The block appears across product collections and galleries and supports full styling controls, so merchants can configure it without additional code. Styling controls also expand across Product, Featured Product, Featured Category, Product Categories List, and other catalog blocks. The Featured Category block can now run inside Terms Query to build a collection of product categories with a unified design.

The Product Gallery block now uses native scrolling and scroll snap, so images follow a shopper’s finger and respond to quick flicks. The release also adds a setting for the store’s refund and returns policy page, and WooCommerce labels the selected page in the Pages list. Under the surface, the release contains over 1,300 commits focused on performance, small improvements, and security and bug fixes.

Why it matters

Sale badges and catalog styling shape how shoppers read promotions, so more display options let stores highlight discounts without custom development. Smoother gallery swipes improve the mobile shopping experience. The refund policy setting gives merchants a defined place to manage a page that customers need to find.

What to do

Review the highlights, follow the update guide, and check the full changelog before updating production sites. The release is backwards compatible but includes a database update, so test it on a staging site first. Confirm any details that affect your store on the WooCommerce site before rolling out changes.