Open/Close Store Hours & Maintenance mode for WooCommerce

Automatically Open and Close Your Store

The WooCommerce Open Close plugin allows you to manage your online store’s business hours easily. You can set daily hours, hide the “Add to Cart” button during off-hours, and close your store for holidays or events. 

You can also schedule multiple hourly time slots and customize display pop-ups and messages for customers. The plugin also allows manual store closures and full-screen banners to display maintenance or coming soon messages.

You can also customize the display pop-ups and messages for customers, letting them know if your store is under maintenance or if a product is coming soon. This way, you can easily manage your WooCommerce store and keep your customers informed.

Features

• Setup Store routines such as business days, and working hours
• Schedule Breaks During Working Hours
• Display a store closure message in a bar or popup
• Disable the Add to Cart option when the store is closed
• Exclude specific products or categories from shopping restrictions
• Notify visitors about maintenance with custom messages and a countdown timer
• Inform visitors about coming soon products and send email notifications when the product is available
• Temporary close your store for an event
• Manually close your store with one click
• Customize store closure popup and bar
• Personalize upcoming closure notifications

Display closure message in popup or bar

WooCommerce close store lets you inform your customers with a personalized message about store closure. You can choose between a popup or a bar to display the message and set an automatic time for the disappearance or let the users manually close the pop-up. 

Notification Popup:

Notification Bar:

Temporary close the store for Upcoming Events

WooCommerce temporarily close shop plugin allows the store owners to select the date of closure and specify custom opening and closing hours along with a personalized message. This feature enables you to set your holiday times and display customized notifications.

Let Customers know that you are coming soon or on maintenance mode

The WooCommerce maintenance mode plugin enables you to display a full-screen banner for maintenance mode or coming soon with a custom message. You can also display a countdown timer so the customers can know when the store will open again. You can use this functionality in the following cases:

• Maintenance mode

Display a full-screen banner with the WooCommerce maintenance mode plugin when your store is in maintenance mode. Enter a custom heading, message, and countdown timer to let customers know that your WooCommerce store is under maintenance and when will it re-open.

• Display a custom message for coming soon

The WooCommerce coming soon plugin enables you to display a custom screen-wide banner for coming soon. In case of store closure, you can let customers know with custom messages along with a countdown timer. This also allows users to get email notifications for the opening of the store by entering their email addresses.

Disable Add to Cart

You can prevent orders by disabling the ‘Add to Cart’ option during store closure hours. Specific pages or products can be excluded.

Set opening/closing hours & display schedule using a shortcode

Automate your store’s opening and closing with the Close WooCommerce Store plugin. Set working hours and breaks for each day of the week, and schedule lunch breaks.

For customers to be aware of the business hours, a shortcode can be used to display the schedule on the front end.

Display Countdown Timer

The WooCommerce Opening Hours & Chosen Times plugin lets you display a countdown timer on your website to let customers know your store’s opening or closing time. Set the time in minutes or hours to show before opening or closing. You can choose to display the timer in the notification bar or pop-up, with a squared or round layout.

Popup Timer

Bar Timer

Remind Customers when your Store is Open

WooCommerce opening hours plugin allows the admin to send customized notifications to customers through email when the store opens. Admin can set the sender name, email subject, and email body.

Exclude products or categories

Allow certain products or categories to bypass the store closure with an exclusion option. Customers will continue buying such products and categories despite the store shutdown.

Manually close your store

WooCommerce close store plugin provides you with a “one-click close” feature giving the admin the freedom to manually close down the store whenever needed. Your store will stay closed until you open it back manually.

Display popup on various pages

Inform your customers about your store closure with the pop-up feature. Ensure the store closure is conveyed to maximum users by displaying the popup on all or specific pages such as the shop, checkout, product, and cart. 

Customized notifications

Modify the look and appearance of the notifications communicating the opening or closure of your WooCommerce store. You can create different messages for different parts of the day or week according to your schedule.

Use Cases:

• Any business can benefit from professional and polite communication of store closure through pop-ups.
• The food and restaurant industry can effectively communicate working hours and closures.
• Online meat shops can ensure an even supply of products by closing on specific days.

Benefits

• Easily manage business schedule
• Create a daily or weekly schedule for your store
• Let customers know the store timings
• Take orders only when ready to serve
• Exclude products or pages that you want to keep selling
• Display customized notifications
• Inform customers when your store reopens
• Manually close your store with one click
• Run your store like a brick-and-mortar shop

FAQs:

How does the WooCommerce Open Close Plugin work? 

WooCommerce Close Store Plugin automates opening and closing your online store based on a preset schedule, allowing seamless management of store activity.

Can I customize the maintenance mode message displayed to customers? 

Yes, you can personalize messages to communicate important information such as when your store will be back online or the reasons for maintenance using WooCommerce Maintenance Mode Plugin.

Can I exclude specific products from the closure rules? 

Yes, the WooCommerce Opening Hours Plugin allows you to exclude certain products from closure rules, ensuring they remain available for purchase during scheduled closures.

How do I schedule temporary closures for my store? 

Simply specify the dates and times for closures in the backend, whether for events, holidays, or maintenance tasks, and the plugin will handle the rest.

Does the plugin offer options for manual store closure? 

Yes, WooCommerce Opening Hours offers options for manual store closure, allowing you to close your store manually if needed, such as during unexpected circumstances or exceeding order capacity.

Compatibility

Our plugins are designed to be highly versatile and also compatible with the most commonly used themes, browsers, builders, and mobile views. We understand the importance of flexibility and integration when it comes to enhancing your website’s functionality. Our plugins can effortlessly integrate with the following:

Themes Compatibility

• Store Front
• Avada
• Flatsome
• Porto
• Woodmart
• WooCommerce default theme
• Divi

Builders

• Elementor
• Bakery
• Divi

Also Compatible with

• Multi-Site
• PHP 8
• Mobile Layouts
• WPML-Static Content

Get started

1. Purchase Open Close Store Hours for WooCommerce from WooCommerce.com.
2. Download and install the extension.
3. Activate the extension.
4. Go to WooCommerce > Settings > Close Store to configure the settings.
5. Read the full installation guide here

Automatically open and close your store just like a brick-and-mortar shop with the Open Close Store Hours for WooCommerce plugin.

Requirements

Minimum PHP version: 5.2