Igor Radovanov

<p>Product Roles Manager for WooCommerce allows you to control which products are visible to specific user roles. Perfect for wholesale stores, membership sites, or any WooCommerce store that needs role-based product access.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Restrict simple products to specific user roles</li>
<li>Restrict product variations individually by user role</li>
<li>Works with WooCommerce product queries, widgets, and shortcodes</li>
<li>Compatible with WooCommerce Blocks and REST API</li>
<li>Automatically hides restricted products from related products, upsells, and cross-sells</li>
<li>Redirects unauthorized users to 404 when accessing restricted products directly</li>
<li>Settings page with import/export functionality</li>
<li>Lightweight and performance-optimized with caching</li>
</ul>
<h4>Use Cases</h4>
<ul>
<li>Wholesale Stores – Show wholesale-only products to users with a wholesale role</li>
<li>Membership Sites – Display exclusive products to premium members only</li>
<li>B2B Stores – Restrict certain products to registered business customers</li>
<li>Staff Discounts – Show staff-only products to employees</li>
</ul>
<h3>Configuration</h3>
<h4>Simple Products</h4>
<ol>
<li>Go to Products then Edit Product</li>
<li>Scroll to the Product Data section</li>
<li>In the General tab, find Product Visibility by Role</li>
<li>Select the user roles that should see this product</li>
<li>Leave empty to show the product to all users</li>
</ol>
<h4>Variable Products</h4>
<ol>
<li>Go to Products then Edit Product</li>
<li>Navigate to the Variations tab</li>
<li>Expand any variation</li>
<li>Find Variation Visibility by Role</li>
<li>Select the user roles that should see this variation</li>
<li>Leave empty to show the variation to all users</li>
</ol>
<h4>Plugin Settings</h4>
<p>Navigate to WooCommerce then Product Roles Manager to access:</p>
<ul>
<li>Global settings configuration</li>
<li>Export settings to JSON file</li>
<li>Import settings from JSON file</li>
<li>Delete all plugin data</li>
</ul>


Product Roles Manager for WooCommerce

Control WooCommerce product visibility based on user roles. Restrict products and variations to specific user roles.

Charlie Macaraeg

<p>By default, WooCommerce hides <strong>all</strong> out-of-stock products when the global “Hide out of stock items” option is enabled.</p>
<p>This plugin turns off WooCommerce’s global “Hide out of stock items” setting. Out-of-stock products remain hidden by default, and you use the plugin’s per-product controls to allow selected sold-out products to appear (shop/search). A notice on the manager page reminds you that the global setting is overridden.</p>
<h3>What this plugin does</h3>
<ul>
<li>Choose visibility for <strong>out-of-stock products only</strong></li>
<li>Forces WooCommerce’s global “Hide out of stock items” setting off so per-product control applies</li>
<li>Hide out-of-stock products by default; allow specific sold-out items to appear where you choose</li>
<li>Control whether a product appears in:
<ul>
<li>Shop + Search</li>
<li>Shop only</li>
<li>Search only</li>
<li>Hidden everywhere</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Bulk-manage sold-out products with pagination and search</li>
<li>Uses WooCommerce’s native <code>product_visibility</code> taxonomy (safe & compatible)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Typical use cases</h3>
<ul>
<li>Keep sold-out products visible for <strong>SEO</strong></li>
<li>Show catalog or discontinued items</li>
<li>Keep seasonal or returning products searchable</li>
<li>Avoid confusing customers while stock is unavailable</li>
<li>Maintain a clean shop page without hiding everything</li>
</ul>
<p>This plugin overrides the global hide toggle but still uses WooCommerce’s native <code>product_visibility</code> taxonomy for safe per-product exceptions.</p>


Hide or Show Out-of-Stock Products for WooCommerce

Control which out-of-stock WooCommerce products stay visible—turns off WooCommerce’s global hide and lets you allow specific sold-out items.

Product Roles Manager for WooCommerce vs Hide or Show Out-of-Stock Products for WooCommerce