Store Vacation Lite for WooCommerce

Store Vacation Lite for WooCommerce is useful when you need to temporarily pause new WooCommerce orders without taking your store offline. You can use it for vacations, holidays, illness, family emergencies, fulfilment delays, stock reviews, maintenance windows, or any period when you are unable to process new orders.

Yes. Woo Store Vacation was renamed to Store Vacation Lite for WooCommerce after nine years under the original name — the underlying plugin, settings, saved schedules, and notice content all carry over automatically. Only the display name has changed. If you arrived here from a tutorial, YouTube video, blog post, or forum thread that references “Woo Store Vacation,” you’re in the right place. No re-installation, no re-configuration, and no data migration is required.

No. Store Vacation Lite for WooCommerce keeps your website and products visible. If you enable the “Disable Purchase” option, customers can browse your store but cannot complete checkout or place new orders during vacation mode.

No. The plugin keeps your store visible and does not add no-index meta tags to your shop. Customers and search engines can still access your store pages while vacation mode is active.

Yes. The vacation notice can be added to block-based themes using the Store Vacation Notice block in the Site Editor, template parts, or any page. The notice also appears automatically on WooCommerce shop and product pages regardless of theme.

No. Store Vacation Lite for WooCommerce only loads its logic on the frontend when vacation mode is active, and only enqueues the notice styles on pages where the notice is displayed. There is no measurable performance impact when vacation mode is off.

You can find the plugin settings in your WordPress dashboard under WooCommerce » Settings » Store Vacation.

To set up vacation mode:

1. Go to WooCommerce » Settings » Store Vacation.
2. Enable the “Enable Vacation Mode” option.
3. Set the “Start Date”.
4. Set the “End Date”.
5. Optionally enable “Disable Purchase” to pause checkout and add-to-cart behavior.
6. Add a vacation notice message.
7. Click “Save Changes”.

The “Disable Purchase” option disables eCommerce purchase functionality while vacation mode is active. It removes or disables cart, checkout, and add-to-cart behavior so customers cannot place new orders during the vacation period.

Yes. Your products remain visible while purchases are paused. This allows customers to browse your catalog and return when the store reopens.

In the free version, purchases are simply paused and the vacation notice is shown. Customers can return after your vacation ends to complete their order manually. Store Vacation Pro adds saved-cart tools so customers can save their cart during vacation and receive a link to restore it after you reopen — turning would-be lost sales into orders that land as soon as you’re back.

Yes. If “Disable Purchase” is enabled, you can use the Conditions section to keep selected products available for purchase. You can exclude specific products, categories, tags, product types, and shipping classes from vacation mode so those items remain purchasable while the rest of the store is paused. This is useful for keeping digital downloads, gift cards, or pre-orders available during closures.

The vacation notice appears on WooCommerce shop and product pages during your scheduled vacation period. You can also display the notice manually on other pages using the Store Vacation Notice block, Elementor widget, or [woo_store_vacation] shortcode.

Yes. You can customize the notice text, add a call-to-action button, set a button URL, use start and end date smart tags, and change the notice text and background colors.

The free version supports:

• {{start_date}}
• {{end_date}}

Yes. Shop managers can access and manage the plugin settings, making it easier for store teams to update vacation dates and notices when needed.

Yes. Store Vacation Lite for WooCommerce is translation-ready and includes configuration support for WPML and Polylang.

Yes. Store Vacation Lite for WooCommerce supports WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage.

The Lite version covers a single scheduled vacation with a customizable notice and basic product exceptions — enough for a straightforward one-off closure. Store Vacation Pro adds recurring schedules, opening hours, saved-cart tools that let customers restore their cart after you reopen, vacation reporting, storefront behavior controls (replacement content, password protection, private links), and integrations like admin reminder emails, import/export, and a REST API. If you close your shop more than once a year, want to protect abandoned-cart revenue during closures, or need visibility into what happened while you were away, Pro pays for itself quickly.

Yes. Store Vacation Pro is available on WooCommerce.com and adds advanced scheduling, recurring weekday closures, opening hours, saved carts, cart building while closed, vacation reporting, storefront behavior controls, admin reminder emails, vacation order tracking, import/export tools, and REST API support. You can learn more here: Store Vacation Pro

The easiest way to receive support is to visit the Community Forums page and create a new topic. Make sure to check the “Notify me of follow-up replies via email” option so you receive updates when someone replies.

Yes. Store Vacation Lite for WooCommerce is translation-ready and localized using the GNU framework. You can help translate it through the official WordPress translation platform. Translate Store Vacation Lite for WooCommerce

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