Search engine bots
↑ Back to topWhen you tick the Disable “Price by User Role” for bots checkbox, it will disable the display of price change if a search engine bot is detected. By default, this checkbox is unticked.
What are Search Engine Bots?
Web search robots which are also called bots are tools used by web search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc. to build their databases.
These search engine bots access web pages, index titles, summaries, or the entire content of the document in a more speedy and efficient way.
For instance, you have set a price multiplier for guests user role to display product prices 2 times higher than the base price.
When users with guest user roles visit your site, a 2 times higher price than base price will be displayed.
However, if a search engine bot is detected then in that case it will display the actual base price instead of the modified price.
Exclude Product Categories
↑ Back to topUse this setting to restrict certain product categories from having different prices based on user roles.
All the product categories available on your site will be visible as a dropdown when you click on the empty field. Choose the product categories that you wish to exclude:
You can choose more than one product category. For instance, you can go with product categories like ‘Halloween’ and ‘Personalised Gifting’ as shown here:
Once done, click the ‘Save Changes’ button.
When the customer goes to the product page of any of the products that fall under these categories then the prices based on user roles will not be displayed.
Let’s take the example of the product ‘Fortune Teller Halloween Costume.’ This product falls under the ‘Halloween’ product category. Product prices based on user roles have also been enabled for it:
However, since this product category has been added under the setting ‘Exclude Product Categories’, it will NOT display the different prices based on user roles:
If you remove this category from the setting as shown here:
Then the product page of ‘Fortune Teller Halloween Costume’ will continue to show the different prices:
Since it is the admin that views the product page in the above instance, the price for this product is £160. Along with it, different prices for different roles will be shown.
Reset Settings
↑ Back to topThis setting allows you to reset General settings to its default settings.
When you tick the Reset section settings checkbox, it will enable the WooCommerce Price by User Role option and untick the Search engine bots checkbox.