Disable Sales for WooCommerce

Going on holiday, closing over Christmas and New Year, doing a stock-take, selling only in season or taking orders only during opening hours? Disable Sales for WooCommerce closes the shop for the period you choose and opens it again by itself – no need to set products out of stock or switch the shop to maintenance mode.

Closed over Christmas? Set 24 December to 1 January once, tick “Repeat” and your shop closes and reopens on its own every year. Customers can still browse, they just cannot order – and they see when you are back.

• Pick a first and a last closed day; both are included, the shop reopens the day after.
• Repeat the same period every year (also across New Year, e.g. 20 December to 6 January) – or use it for seasonal selling, e.g. Christmas trees only from late November to Christmas Eve.
• Close the shop every day between two times, e.g. 22:00 to 06:00 or outside your delivery hours; closing hours may cross midnight.
• While closed, no product can be added to the cart and existing carts cannot be checked out.
• Customers see a WooCommerce-style notice on the cart and checkout – or on every page, if you want.
• Write your own notice texts, with [date_from]/[date_to] for the dates and [time_from]/[time_to] for the daily hours.
• Works with the classic cart and checkout and with the cart and checkout blocks; compatible with high-performance order storage (HPOS).
• Dates and times use your shop’s timezone, date and time format.

Settings: WooCommerce → Settings → Disable Sales.

Disable Sales Pro

Need more than one period? The Disable Sales Pro add-on adds a weekly schedule with the public holidays of 14 EU countries, several planned closures, orders during a pause with a shipping date, closing only selected products, categories or delivery countries, an access link for wholesale and regular customers, and a banner with a countdown.

This plugin is maintained by Regelkit, makers of EU compliance plugins for WooCommerce.

1. Install from the WordPress plugin directory or upload wc-disable-sales to /wp-content/plugins/.
2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu.
3. Go to WooCommerce → Settings → Disable Sales, enable the plugin and set the dates and/or the daily closing hours.

1. 

   Settings under WooCommerce → Settings → Disable Sales

2. 

   The notice customers see while the shop is closed

3. 

   Daily closing hours, e.g. 22:00 to 06:00

1.2.1

• After two weeks of use the settings page asks once for a review on WordPress.org (with “Maybe later” and “Don’t ask again”). It never appears anywhere else.
• The new texts are translated into all bundled languages.

1.2.0

• New: daily closing hours – close the shop every day between two times (also across midnight), with its own notice text using [time_from] and [time_to].

1.1.0

• Tested with WordPress 7.1 and WooCommerce 11.2; declares compatibility with HPOS and the cart/checkout blocks.
• Block cart and checkout: the closed shop is reported as a cart error.
• Fixed: the notice was not shown on the classic cart and checkout.
• The “until” date is now included (the shop reopens the day after); dates use the shop’s timezone and date format.
• Yearly repeats that cross New Year are handled correctly.
• German translation; Polish translation completed.
• All strings translatable and escaped; licence is GPL-2.0-or-later in the plugin header and readme.
• Unit tests for the closing periods.

1.0.8

• Add load_plugin_textdomain hook

1.0.7

• Do not use variable as textdomain
• Cleanup languages

1.0.6

• Add translations.

1.0.5

• Fix plugin versions.

1.0.4

• Add plugin icon.

1.0.3

• Fix screenshots in readme.

1.0.2

• Renamed the plugin.

1.0.1

• Add screenshots.

1.0.0

• Created a working plugin.