100% FREE COMMUNITY EDITION - NO LICENSE KEY REQUIRED!
Install in 10 seconds and instantly add interactive live character limits and countdown badges to custom text & textarea product options!
Enforce Character Limits on Custom Text & Engravings
Allowing customers to input custom text for personalized engravings, custom apparel, gift messages, or license notes? Unrestricted text lengths lead to truncated prints, broken order receipts, and messy invoices.
FlexExt Option Character Limit (Free Lite Edition) provides a lightweight, zero-overhead tool to enforce maximum character caps and display clean live countdown badges on text inputs.
Key Free Lite Features:
- Real-Time Counter Badges: Dynamic countdown badges showing remaining characters while customer types.
- Instant Input Capping: Automatically sets HTML5 maxlength to prevent typing overflow and paste floods.
- Configurable Max Length: Admin setting to define universal character limit for text & textarea options.
- Zero Core Modifications: Event-Driven Architecture (OC4) and clean OCMOD (OC3).
- Universal Theme Compatibility: Default theme, Journal 3, Basel, Fastor, Poco.
- 100% Free: No license required on unlimited stores and domains!
Upgrade to Commercial PRO Suite:
Need per-product overrides, minimum length validation, product catalog field limits, and server-side cart enforcement?
- Dynamic Colored Badges (Green / Amber / Red thresholds)
- Granular Per-Product & Per-Option Custom Limits
- Strict Minimum Character Requirement (e.g. min 5 chars)
- Product Catalog Length Enforcer (Name, Meta Title, Description)
- Dual-Layer Checkout Enforcement (Client JS + Server PHP)
Feature Comparison: Free Lite vs. Commercial PRO
| Feature |
Free Lite Edition |
Commercial PRO Suite |
| Live Real-Time Countdown Badge |
Standard Count |
Dynamic Green / Amber / Red Badges |
| Maximum Character Limit (Options) |
Global Cap |
Per-Product + Per-Option Caps |
| Minimum Character Requirement |
Not Available |
Strict Min Length Enforcement |
| Product Catalog Fields Enforcer |
Not Available |
Name, Meta Title, Description & SEO |
| Custom Multilingual Warnings |
Not Available |
Translated Warnings & Popovers |
| Dual-Layer Checkout Enforcement |
Client JS Only |
Client JS + Server PHP Validation |
| Commercial License Key Required |
NO - 100% Free |
Yes (Commercial Key) |