Does the statement surprise you? Haven’t you ever needed to pause an online store for a day or more ? I do not mean to put it in maintenance, but to not be able to place orders, notifying customers.
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Why should I prevent ordering from my online store?
Well, a lot happens, also during maintenance tasks , or during a server migration , if your store is not fully configured yet, or also if you are clear that for a few days you will not be able to attend to your customers’ orders but you still want to be visible your online store.
Putting your WooCommerce online store on vacation is also very easy, we are not going to complicate it, there are some great plugins for it.
Disable Sales for WooCommerce
This plugin does what it offers and does it well. You just have to install it, activate it, and configure it on its settings page, in WooCommerce → Settings → Disable Sales .
Activate the first box so that the possibility of ordering in the store is deactivated, choose the dates, and if you want to personalize the notification message to customers.
A temporary message will appear in the store indicating that it is not available .
And the same on the product pages, in addition to the add to cart buttons will not be available .
Woo store vacation
Very similar to the previous plugin, but this time with the particularity that the warning messages are not temporary but are fixed on the pages, you have Woo Store Vacation.
In its own menu, in WooCommerce → Store Holidays , configure the activation of the closure and also the appearance of the warning message.
The warning, in this case, is fixed, it does not disappear after a few seconds.
The same on the product page.
As you will see, closing the online store functionality of your eCommerce for a period is very easy to achieve, and an effective way to have your online store visible without having to attend to orders for a certain time, that you need.
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