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>WooCommerce gives store owners a global setting to hide out-of-stock products, but sometimes that all-or-nothing approach is too limiting.</p>
<p><strong>Hide or Show Out-of-Stock Products for WooCommerce</strong> gives you more control by letting you keep specific sold-out products visible while others remain hidden.</p>
<p>This is useful when you want to:</p>
<ul>
<li>keep important out-of-stock products visible for SEO</li>
<li>show popular or seasonal products even when temporarily unavailable</li>
<li>keep product pages accessible for reference or future restocks</li>
<li>avoid hiding every sold-out item across your whole store</li>
</ul>
<p>Instead of relying only on WooCommerce’s default out-of-stock visibility behavior, this plugin helps you manage product visibility more intentionally.</p>
<h3>How it works</h3>
<p>The plugin disables WooCommerce’s global “Hide out of stock items from the catalog” behavior and lets you decide which out-of-stock products should remain visible.</p>
<p>This gives you more flexibility when managing sold-out products in your shop.</p>
<h3>Use cases</h3>
<ul>
<li>A product is temporarily out of stock, but you still want customers to find it</li>
<li>A product has SEO value and should remain visible even when unavailable</li>
<li>Some sold-out items should stay visible, but low-priority items should stay hidden</li>
<li>You want more control than WooCommerce’s default stock visibility option</li>
</ul>
<h3>Who this plugin is for</h3>
<p>This plugin is helpful for WooCommerce store owners who want more control over how out-of-stock products appear in their catalog.</p>
<p>It may be especially useful for stores that sell:</p>
<ul>
<li>seasonal items</li>
<li>popular products that are frequently restocked</li>
<li>products with search traffic or strong SEO value</li>
<li>products that customers may still want to browse even when unavailable</li>
</ul>


Hide or Show Out-of-Stock Products for WooCommerce

Control which out-of-stock WooCommerce products stay visible and which ones stay hidden.

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