PluginCity Product Expiry Dates for WooCommerce

Type the date on the product’s Expiry tab. When it passes, the product comes off sale: the buy button goes and the page says it is no longer available, in your words. Anybody holding it in a cart is asked to remove it before ordering. Orders already placed are untouched.

Nothing can be bought through it: the date is checked again when anything is added to a cart, rather than trusted from the page. The button belongs to your theme, and a buy form drawn in place of WooCommerce’s own is hidden too. If yours is still there, tell us the theme and we will look at it.

WooCommerce would take it straight out and say only that it can no longer be purchased, which reads as a fault in your shop. This plugin leaves the row in place, explains it in your words, and refuses the order until the customer removes it.

Neither. It stays listed, so a customer who followed a link lands on a page that explains itself rather than a 404, and nothing can be bought from it. It is not marked out of stock either, which would tell your reports, feeds and back-in-stock emails something untrue.

Yes. Leave the time empty and the product sells to the end of the day you typed, as a best-before date reads. Fill it in and it stops at that minute.

Yes. Type the best-before date on the product’s Expiry tab and it stops selling at the end of that day, so perishable food cannot be added to a cart or checked out past it.

Yes. Give the ticket a date and time and it stops selling at that minute. A cart still holding it cannot be checked out.

Yours, the one set in Settings → General. A date you typed stays the moment you meant if you later change the time zone.

Not in the free version, which leaves it in the shop and refuses the sale. Pro can hide it from your listings or move it to draft instead. The PluginCity product page lists the Pro features in full.

Not in the free version. Pro dates products for you from one figure for the shop, or a different number of days for each category — days for salad, years for tins.

Not in the free version, which leaves your prices alone. Pro can take a percentage off as the date approaches — 20% in the last week, 50% in the last two days — so stock clears instead of being thrown away.

Not in the free version, which says nothing beforehand. Pro adds a dashboard panel listing what stops selling in the next few days, and can email you the same list each morning.

Not in the free version, which gives you one date box per product. Pro adds Quick Edit, Bulk Edit and expiry dates in WooCommerce’s own product CSV export and import. The PluginCity product page has the details.

Not in the free version, where every variation is held to the product’s one date. Pro dates each variation separately, and tells a customer who picks one whose date has passed.

Yes. A cart holding something past its date is reported through WooCommerce’s Store API, so the block cart and checkout refuse to proceed and show the same message.

Yes, both sentences: the one on the cart and the one on the product. Bold, italics and links are allowed; anything else is stripped before it reaches the storefront.

The free version draws it one way: a panel with a coloured band and a small clock, taking its type and size from your theme, and it can be restyled with your own CSS. Pro adds controls for colour, box, mark, weight, size and alignment, with a preview.

Yes. The shortcode [pexp_message] prints the same sentence wherever you put it, and shows nothing while the cart is fine.

No. The buttons stay on the cart so the customer can read why, but the order is refused while the cart holds something past its date. A PayPal express button is stopped the moment it is pressed, before the customer is sent out to PayPal, and any other flow that builds its order through WooCommerce’s checkout is refused there too.

Yes. Nothing is written to orders, so HPOS shops are fully supported.