R.Sabbir

GeoShield Lite is a geolocation-based product restriction plugin for WooCommerce. It gives store owners control over which products are visible or purchasable based on a visitor’s country.
This is useful for stores that need to comply with international licensing agreements, regional distribution contracts, or country-specific product availability rules.
<h3>How It Works</h3>
GeoShield Lite primarily uses the built-in WooCommerce geolocation system (MaxMind GeoIP database) to detect a visitor’s country. To ensure a seamless “out-of-the-box” experience for stores without a MaxMind configuration, the plugin includes a fail-safe fallback to a legitimate third-party geolocation service. Based on per-product restriction rules you configure, the plugin can either hide products entirely or disable the purchase button for visitors from specified countries.
All restriction logic runs locally using WordPress metadata — external API calls are used strictly as a fallback for country identification when local detection is unavailable.
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Per-Product Restrictions — Define unique country restriction rules directly within the WooCommerce product editor.</li>
<li>Variation-Level Overrides — Apply independent geographic rules to specific product variations.</li>
<li>Blacklist and Whitelist Modes — Block selected countries (blacklist) or allow only selected countries (whitelist).</li>
<li>Two Restriction Actions — Hide the product completely from the catalog, or keep it visible but disable the purchase button.</li>
<li>Custom Restriction Messages — Display a configurable message to visitors who are restricted from purchasing.</li>
<li>Automatic Catalog Filtering — Restricted products are automatically filtered from the shop page, category pages, search results, and related product sections.</li>
<li>WooCommerce Blocks Compatibility — Works with both classic and block-based Cart and Checkout pages.</li>
<li>HPOS Compatible — Fully compatible with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Configuration</h3>
After activation, configure restrictions on individual products:
<ol>
<li>Edit any WooCommerce product.</li>
<li>Open the Country Restrictions tab in the Product Data panel.</li>
<li>Enable restrictions and select your target countries.</li>
<li>Choose between Hide Product or Disable Purchase.</li>
<li>Save the product.</li>
</ol>
Global settings are available under the GeoShield > Settings menu.
<h3>External Services</h3>
GeoShield Lite uses external services to detect visitor locations for restriction purposes. Below is complete documentation of all external services used, what data is transmitted, and when.
<h4>IP Address Detection Service (ipify)</h4>
What it does: Detects your server’s public IP address to enable accurate geolocation when your server is behind a proxy, load balancer, or CDN.
When it’s used: Only when the plugin needs to determine the server’s external IP address for geolocation purposes. This typically happens once during initial setup or when geolocation cache expires.
What data is sent: A standard HTTP request to api.ipify.org. No user data, no store data, no personal information is transmitted. Only your server’s IP address is detected (which is already visible to any website you connect to).
Service provider: ipify API 
Website: https://www.ipify.org 
Terms of Service: https://www.ipify.org 
Privacy Policy: https://www.ipify.org (ipify does not log or store IP addresses)
<h4>Geolocation Service (IP-API)</h4>
What it does: Converts IP addresses to geographic locations (country and state/region) to enforce your restriction rules.
When it’s used: As a fallback when WooCommerce’s built-in geolocation is unavailable. Only activates if you haven’t configured MaxMind GeoIP in WooCommerce settings.
What data is sent: The visitor’s IP address is sent to ip-api.com to determine their country and state/region. No other personal information is transmitted.
Service provider: IP-API 
Website: https://ip-api.com 
Terms of Service: https://ip-api.com/docs/legal 
Privacy Policy: https://ip-api.com/docs/legal
Note: You can avoid using this fallback service by configuring MaxMind GeoIP in WooCommerce → Settings → Integration. When MaxMind is configured, GeoShield uses WooCommerce’s native geolocation exclusively.
<h4>Data Privacy & GDPR Compliance</h4>
GeoShield is designed with privacy in mind:
<ul>
<li>Only IP addresses are transmitted to external services (no names, emails, or personal data)</li>
<li>IP addresses are processed solely for geolocation purposes</li>
<li>No data is stored by external services (per their privacy policies)</li>
<li>All external calls use secure HTTPS connections</li>
<li>You can use WooCommerce’s built-in MaxMind integration to eliminate fallback external calls entirely</li>
</ul>
If you have privacy concerns, we recommend configuring MaxMind GeoIP in WooCommerce settings to keep all geolocation processing local to your server.

GeoShield – Country Restrictions Lite for WooCommerce

Country-based product restrictions for WooCommerce. Hide products or disable purchases for visitors from specific geographic regions.

Freemius

vegacorp

Jose Vega

This plugin is the perfect tool for creating Country Catalogs. You can geolocalize your WooCommerce store and offer different products based on the country of the user.
Are you creating a WooCommerce store and you want to restrict products to specific countries?
This plugin lets you sell WooCommerce products to specific countries.
This plugin works with WPML automatically.
<h4>Why do I need special country catalogs?</h4>
Simple, to make more money 🙂
Sell WooCommerce products with higher prices for the United States, and lower prices for India or developing countries.
Sell your digital products globally and the physical version in your home country.
<h4>How does it work?</h4>
When you create or edit products, you will have the option to sell the product to a list of countries, or not sell the product to a list of countries.
When a product is available for a country, only users from that country can view the product and buy it. The same thing happens for restricted products.
Restricted products are completely hidden from the blacklisted country. They are removed from the product catalog, product category, product search, etc. The people from the disallowed country can´t see the product at all.
You can use this for a lot of purposes.
<h4>Use cases</h4>
<ul>
<li>
Create country catalogs easily
</li>
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Sell different product categories for each country
</li>
<li>
Sell WooCommerce products with higher prices for the United States, and lower prices for India
</li>
<li>
Offer products with different Attributes, Variations, Pictures, and Prices to different Countries
</li>
<li>
Change product descriptions and titles based on the country of the user
</li>
<li>
Apply the country restrictions to every product
</li>
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This works with Simple Products, Grouped Products, and External Products
</li>
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In the free version there´s no global settings, you need to edit every product manually
</li>
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And more…
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Premium features</h4>
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Advanced geolocation options: 
Auto detect country by IP 
Show country selector in the header and let users view the country catalogs 
Use the shipping country 
Use the billing country 
Allow to use a second geolocation method as a fallback, for example, shipping country + auto detected ip
Restrict by country, continent, subcontinent, and states
Advanced restriction options: 
Hide products from the shop catalog, category page, search, and product page 
Show products and disable “add to cart” 
Show products and disable “add to cart” and hide prices
All product types supported 
Example. Variable Products = Restrict variable products and individual variations by country.
Hide individual Product Variations by Country 
Offer a “large size” to Spain, “Small size” to Germany 
Offer a “physical product” to your home country, and “digital (downloadable)” option to the other countries 
Offer a print / delivery to your home country, and digital only to other countries 
Show different variation pictures and product dimensions for different countries
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Hide product categories by Country 
You have a menu with the categories: Music, Movies, and Apps. 
You can hide the “Music” catalog for Canada, and show the “Movies” catalog for USA. 
This will automatically remove the category from the menus, categories list, product pages, etc. 
You can select if you want to hide the category catalog only or hide category and all products under the category.
Restrict Coupons by Country 
You can create coupons for specific countries, continents, or regions. I.e. Coupons for Europe, Canada, etc.
Bulk Edit Products by Category 
You can hide all products under the category “Music” for Canada, and show all products under category “Videos” for USA only.
Global settings page 
You can apply country restrictions to all products automatically. No need to edit every product manually.
You can hide all products for specific countries, or sell products to specific countries.
You can also hide all variations by attributes for specific countries. For example, make all “size large” available to USA only, this applies to all products at once.
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Product Country Restrictions for WooCommerce – Country Catalogs

Restrict or hide WooCommerce products by country, create country catalogs.

GeoShield – Country Restrictions Lite for WooCommerce vs Product Country Restrictions for WooCommerce – Country Catalogs