No. Upvoting writes only to a separate counter column on the plan or product meta. Customers still go through the normal WooCommerce checkout to actually purchase with a deposit, and existing orders, payment schedules, and reminder emails continue to behave exactly as they always have without any side effects from votes.

Yes. SleekView reads every deposit plan defined in WooCommerce Deposits regardless of type. Percentage, fixed amount, and installment plans each get their own card with a category pill that makes the type obvious. The team can filter the board by deposit type whenever they want to focus a review on a single slice.

Yes. Because the counter lives in product or plan meta, anything that already queries WooCommerce meta also sees the upvotes. The Deposits admin views, WooCommerce analytics, and custom finance dashboards all pick up the same signal, so the public board and internal reporting stay in sync without extra integration work.

Yes. Stores often add placeholder cards for plans the team is considering, like a four-payment plan on a specific product line. Customers can upvote those placeholders to express interest, and the merchandising team uses that signal to take the proposed plan into the finance approval process with real evidence behind it.

The status pill flips to paused or retired and the card sinks down the board. The card stays visible as a historical record of the decision, with the upvote history and any notes intact. That makes it easy to revisit retired plans later if customer demand keeps coming back for the same payment structure on the same products.

Yes. Vote permissions follow WordPress capabilities and any WooCommerce membership data already on the customer. You can require login, limit voting to specific roles, or even use loyalty tier as a vote weight so high-value customers carry more influence over which deposit plans evolve next on the storefront.

Yes. The board never exposes individual schedule details or personal payment data. Cards show plan-level information like the schedule shape and the upvote count, never any specific customer's outstanding balance. Existing WooCommerce privacy and data export features keep handling per-customer payment data exactly as they did before.

The board reads cached snapshots of deposit plan data and rate limits vote writes, so heavy traffic during sale events does not push extra load on the WooCommerce database. Customers can still upvote plans and place real deposits, and the admin sees no performance impact compared to a normal day on the storefront.