Woo Store Vacation

Woo Store Vacation 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.

No. Woo Store Vacation 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.

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

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.

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. Woo Store Vacation is translation-ready and includes configuration support for WPML and Polylang.

Yes. Woo Store Vacation supports WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage.

Yes. Store Vacation Pro is available on WooCommerce.com and adds advanced scheduling, recurring weekday closures, opening hours, advanced notices, smart conditions, 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. Woo Store Vacation is translation-ready and localized using the GNU framework. You can help translate it through the official WordPress translation platform. Translate Woo Store Vacation

You can contribute by reporting bugs, testing changes, suggesting improvements, or submitting feedback. Visit the GitHub development repository for more information.

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