Country Based Product Purchase Restriction

Country Based Product Purchase Restriction lets you control exactly who can buy a product on your WooCommerce store, based on the customer’s country and user role. When a visitor doesn’t match the rules you’ve set, the price and Add to Cart button are automatically hidden.

Restrict product purchases by selected countries
Show a custom message or suggest an alternative product to restricted visitors
Hide a restricted product completely, or show it with a message
Let restricted visitors send you a message — instant email + saved for follow-up
Built-in analytics dashboard with CSV export
Assign allowed user roles for each selected country
Only matching country + role users can purchase
Block purchases if country matches but role is not allowed
Optional guest purchase control by country
Hide price and Add to Cart for restricted users
Automatic customer country detection via IP

Installation

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To start using a product from WooCommerce.com, you can use the “Add to store” functionality on the order confirmation page or the My subscriptions section in your account.

Navigate to My subscriptions.
Find the Add to store button next to the product you’re planning to install.
Follow the instructions on the screen, and the product will be automatically added to your store.

Alternative options and more information at:
Managing WooCommerce.com subscriptions.

Adding a WooCommerce.com subscription to your store

Setting Up Restriction on a Product

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Go to Products → [select a product] → Edit, then click the Country Restriction tab.

1. Enable Purchase Restriction

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Check this box to turn restriction on for this product. If it’s unchecked, the product behaves normally and none of the settings below apply.

2. Allowed Countries

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Select the countries you want to allow to purchase this product. Visitors from any other country will be restricted.

3. Allowed User Roles

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Select which user roles (Customer, Wholesaler, or any custom role your store uses) are allowed to purchase. A visitor must match both the country and the role to complete a purchase — matching only one isn’t enough.

4. Hide Price

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Optionally, hide the price completely from restricted visitors instead of just blocking Add to Cart. Leave this off if you’d rather still show the price.

5. Allow Guest Users

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Choose whether guests (visitors who aren’t logged in) can purchase, as long as their country is allowed. Leave this off to require an account for purchase.

A purchase only goes through when both conditions are met: the visitor’s country is allowed, and their role is allowed. Country matches but role doesn’t → blocked. Role matches but country doesn’t → blocked. No loopholes.

Message or Hide Completely

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Restricted Product Display: Message or Hide Completely

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Still on the same tab, choose how a restricted visitor experiences this product:

Show product page with a message — the product page still opens normally, but the price/Add to Cart are hidden and a message is shown instead.

Hide product completely — the product disappears entirely for a restricted visitor: it won’t show on the shop page, in category pages, in search results, or anywhere else on the site.

If you choose to show a message, you can set a global message (see the General Settings section below) that applies across all your restricted products, or write a custom message for this specific product.

For every restricted product, choose whether visitors see the product page with a restriction message, or the product disappears entirely — no listing on the shop page, in search results, or in related products.

Suggest Alternative Product

Choose another product from your store to recommend to restricted visitors instead of leaving them with nothing — it’s shown as “You may be interested in with a link.

Instead of a dead end, tell restricted visitors why the product isn’t available to them (with your own custom wording), and point them toward a product they can buy — keeping them shopping instead of leaving.

Enable “Interested in this product?” Button

Turn this on to let restricted visitors reach out to you directly. A button appears on the restricted product page; when clicked, it opens a popup where the visitor can enter their email, a subject, and a message. Once submitted, the request is sent straight to your admin email, so you never miss a potential customer.

Restricted visitors can send you a quick message — you’re emailed instantly, and every request is saved to your dashboard so nothing gets missed.

General Settings

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Go to WooCommerce → Settings → Country Restriction. Inside this tab, you’ll see two buttons: General Settings and Restriction Insights.

General Settings controls the defaults used across every restricted product on your store:

Restriction Insights

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Click the Restriction Insights button (next to General Settings, inside the same Country Restriction tab) to access:

Notification Email — set the email address where customer interest requests (from the “Interested in this product?” popup) should be sent.

Blocked Purchase Attempts — a log of how many times visitors have been blocked from purchasing, broken down by product, country, and user role.

Product Interest Requests — every message submitted through the “Interested in this product?” popup, including the visitor’s email, subject, and message — so you can follow up with anyone who couldn’t complete a purchase.