Ordering Hours for WooCommerce
Pause new WooCommerce orders without taking your shop offline. Set vacation or holiday breaks, or weekly ordering hours; browsing carries on.
What it does
A shop that takes orders in office hours, packs by hand or goes away for a fortnight still wants to be found. Ordering Hours pauses new orders without taking the shop offline. Products, categories and search stay where they are, customers can keep browsing and filling a cart, and checkout refuses the order until you are ready to take orders again.
Pause orders with one button, or until a date and time, and the shop reopens on its own, which makes it a vacation mode or holiday mode that leaves your products visible. Set ordering hours for each day of the week, with closed days that keep their hours for when they open again, and add a temporary closure for a holiday or a fulfilment break. Hours follow the time zone you set in WordPress, including the days the clocks change, so 9am is 9am where the shop is. A day's hours have to close after they open: finish at 00:00 to take orders until the end of the day. Hours that run past midnight in one window are not supported.
The refusal happens on the classic checkout and on the Cart and Checkout blocks, and on other routes that build an order through WooCommerce's checkout. PayPal's express buttons are refused when they are pressed, before the customer is sent to PayPal. The customer reads why in your own words on the cart and the checkout, with the time orders reopen added if you want it, and the classic mini-cart carries the same notice. A shortcode, [plugincity_store_status], prints the status on any page, and the admin toolbar says whether orders are open. Choose whether the cart stays open for shopping or the Add to cart button goes. Carts already built are kept, and orders already placed are never touched.
Pro goes further, with as many closures as the year needs, date overrides that replace one date's hours, extra daily windows for a lunch break or a split shift, a cut-off time that either stops orders or accepts them for the next day, delayed fulfilment that keeps taking orders while the shop is closed and tells the customer when processing starts, rules per customer group so a wholesale account can keep ordering, and a reopening countdown. A manual pause always wins: no customer group and no delayed-fulfilment mode steps around it. If a Pro licence lapses, the closures and hours already saved stay in force. They stay on screen to read but cannot be changed until renewal.
See it in action
What the plugin does
- Pause new orders while the shop stays online
- Pause orders until a date and time, then reopen on its own
- A temporary closure, for a holiday or a fulfilment break
- Weekly ordering hours, one window a day, with closed days that keep their hours
- Hours follow the shop's time zone, including the days the clocks change
- A message in your own words, shown while orders are paused, with the time orders reopen if you want it
- Choose to keep the cart open or hide Add to cart
- Notices on the cart and checkout, and in the classic mini-cart
- Orders refused at the classic checkout and at the Cart and Checkout blocks
- PayPal express buttons refused when pressed, before the customer leaves the shop
- A shortcode, [plugincity_store_status], to print the status on any page
- A toolbar line saying whether orders are open
- Settings import and export
- High-Performance Order Storage compatible
- Unlimited closures, so the year can be set out in advance
- Date overrides, so one date replaces that weekday's usual hours
- Extra daily windows, for a lunch break or a split shift
- Cut-off times: stop orders after the cut-off, or accept them for the next day
- Delayed fulfilment: orders are still accepted while the shop is closed, and the customer is told when processing starts
- Rules per customer group, so a wholesale account can keep ordering while the shop is closed
- A reopening countdown, saying how long it is until orders resume
- A manual pause always wins, whatever a customer group or delayed fulfilment would allow
- Pro's settings travel with the settings export
- A lapsed licence keeps the closures and hours already saved in force. They stay on screen to read but cannot be changed until renewal
Pricing
Every Pro plan is the same plugin with every feature. The only difference is how many sites you can run it on.
Single site
One site, with a year of updates and support.
$39/year
Secure checkout. Cancel any time.
5 sites
Most popularUp to 5 sites, with a year of updates and support.
$79/year
Secure checkout. Cancel any time.
25 sites
Up to 25 sites, with a year of updates and support.
$159/year
Secure checkout. Cancel any time.
Need more than 25 sites? Get in touch about a custom licence.
Frequently asked questions
Does the shop go offline?
No. Products, categories and search stay visible, and customers can keep browsing. Only new customer orders are refused.
Does it work with the block cart and checkout?
Yes. The Cart and Checkout blocks show the message and the order is refused through WooCommerce's Store API. The classic cart and checkout work the same way.
What happens to carts already built?
They stay. The customer can come back when you reopen and finish the order. You can also choose to hide Add to cart while orders are paused.
What happens to orders already placed?
Nothing. Closing the shop does not cancel them, change their status, or stop you fulfilling or refunding them.
Which time zone do the hours use?
The one set in WordPress under Settings, General. The hours are kept in the shop's own zone, so 9am stays 9am on the days the clocks change.
Can my hours run past midnight?
Not in a single window. A day's hours have to close after they open, and the screen tells you when they do not. To take orders until the end of the day, finish at 00:00.
Can I show the status somewhere else on my site?
Yes. The shortcode [plugincity_store_status] prints whether orders are open, or the paused message, wherever you put it.
Can a customer get past it with a one-tap payment button?
PayPal's express buttons are stopped when they are pressed, before the customer is sent to PayPal, and any other flow that builds its order through WooCommerce's checkout is refused there too. A gateway that creates orders without going through WooCommerce's checkout is outside this.
Does the block Mini Cart show the message?
No. The classic mini-cart widget carries the notice and the block Mini Cart does not, so the cart and the checkout are where customers read it.
Does it work with High-Performance Order Storage?
Yes. Nothing is written to orders, so High-Performance Order Storage shops are fully supported.
What is the licence key for?
Pro needs a licence key for updates and to keep its Pro settings editable.
What does Pro add?
Unlimited closures, date overrides, extra daily windows, cut-off times, delayed fulfilment, rules per customer group so a wholesale account can keep ordering while the shop is closed, and a reopening countdown.
Can a wholesale account order while the shop is closed?
Yes, with Pro. Tick the customer groups that may keep ordering under Rules per customer group. Everyone else follows the shop hours, and a manual pause still includes them.
What happens if my Pro licence lapses?
Nothing is deleted and the shop does not reopen. The closures and hours you set stay in force and stay on screen to read, and cannot be changed until you renew.
Can I use it as vacation mode or holiday mode?
Yes. Pause orders until the day you are back, or set a temporary closure with its own message. The shop reopens on its own at the time you give, and your products stay visible the whole time.
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