About this plugin
PluginCity Ordering Hours for WooCommerce pauses new orders without taking the shop offline. Products stay on the site, customers can keep browsing, and checkout is refused until you are ready to take orders again.
Your shop stays open for browsing. Ordering doesn’t.
Going on holiday? Pause orders until you return. Only fulfil Monday to Friday?
Set regular ordering hours. Warehouse overloaded? Pause new orders immediately.
Closed for Christmas? Schedule the break and reopen automatically.
The free version is permanent. It does not expire, needs no licence key, and never contacts PluginCity.
What you get
- Pause new orders while the shop stays online
- Pause orders until a date and time, then reopen automatically
- Schedule one temporary closure for a holiday, vacation or fulfilment break
- Weekly ordering hours, one window a day
- A message you write yourself, with the reopening time filled in from your hours
- Choose to keep the cart or hide add to cart
- Notices on the cart and checkout, and in the mini-cart, classic and block
- Place order and Proceed to checkout are switched off while ordering is paused
- Checkout blocked on classic and block flows
- Express payment flows are blocked while ordering is paused
- Block, shortcode and Elementor widget to put the status anywhere
- Opening hours markup for search engines (schema.org), built from your hours and closures
- Settings import and export, so a configuration can be copied to another shop or kept as a backup
- Admin toolbar status showing whether ordering is open or paused
- High-Performance Order Storage compatibility
The free version never phones home. There is no account, no licence key, and no trial clock.
Need multiple closures, date-specific hours, customer-group rules or more advanced scheduling? Ordering Hours Pro adds those features.
Pro is a separate paid version, sold and distributed by PluginCity. It is not included in this plugin and is not downloaded or installed by it, and nothing described above depends on it. Your settings carry over if you buy it.
Configuration
- Leave orders open, or pause them straight away.
- Set weekly ordering hours if you only take orders on certain days.
- Add one temporary closure for a holiday, vacation or fulfilment break, if you have one coming.
- Write the message a customer sees while orders are paused.
- Choose whether to keep the cart or hide add to cart.