<p><strong>The original WooCommerce catalog and pricing visibility tool.</strong></p>
<p>Not every store should show everything to everyone.</p>
<p>Whether you’re selling wholesale, managing restricted pricing, complying with MAP policies, or preparing a catalog before launch, you may need more control over what customers can see and do. Catalog Visibility Options gives you that control while continuing to use WooCommerce and your existing products.</p>
<h2>Control product, price, and purchasing visibility</h2>
<p>Decide exactly what different visitors can access throughout your store:</p>
<ul>
<li>Show or hide <strong>products</strong></li>
<li>Show or hide <strong>prices</strong></li>
<li>Enable or disable <strong>purchasing</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>You can run a fully public store, a private catalog, or a hybrid experience from the same WooCommerce installation.</p>
<h2>Flexible visibility rules</h2>
<p>Configure visibility based on the audience you want to reach:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>User roles</strong></li>
<li><strong>Specific users</strong></li>
<li><strong>User attributes and capabilities</strong></li>
<li><strong>Logged-in vs guest visitors</strong></li>
<li><strong>GeoLocation rules</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>This allows you to create different shopping and browsing experiences for different customers without duplicating products or managing multiple stores.</p>
<h2>Common use cases</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Wholesale / B2B stores</strong><br />
Only approved customers can view pricing or place orders.</li>
<li><strong>MAP pricing compliance</strong><br />
Hide prices publicly while still allowing approved or logged-in customers to access them.</li>
<li><strong>Private catalogs</strong><br />
Restrict products or categories so that only certain users or roles can see them.</li>
<li><strong>Geo-targeted visibility</strong><br />
Show or hide products, prices, or purchasing options based on customer location.</li>
<li><strong>Catalog mode / pre-launch stores</strong><br />
Display products without enabling cart and checkout functionality.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Key features</h2>
<ul>
<li>Hide <strong>products</strong>, <strong>prices</strong>, or <strong>Add to Cart</strong> functionality</li>
<li>Show pricing only to specific users or user roles</li>
<li>Restrict entire catalogs or selected products to authenticated users</li>
<li>Disable cart and checkout functionality when needed</li>
<li>Replace prices or purchase actions with custom content or messaging</li>
<li>Configure GeoLocation-based visibility rules</li>
<li>Works with your existing WooCommerce products and store setup</li>
</ul>
<h2>Summary</h2>
<ul>
<li>Control who sees your products</li>
<li>Control who sees your prices</li>
<li>Control who can purchase</li>
<li>Apply rules by user, role, attributes, or location</li>
</ul>

Catalog Visibility Options

<p>Control who sees prices—and who can buy—while keeping WooCommerce flexible for any business model. Hide prices and control purchasing options based on users, roles, and locations.</p>

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<li>Increase customer satisfaction and sales with an intuitive layout that separates products by subcategory</li>
<li>Select which category pages to alter, and which to render as normal</li>
<li>Easily configure the number of products per subcategory to display on the shop and catalog pages</li>
<li>Known compatibility with WooCommerce Themes and the Genesis Framework</li>
<li>Flexible, overrideable architecture allows customization and support for additional themes and frameworks</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Show Your Shop Catalog by Category and Subcategory</h2>
<p>The <strong>WooCommerce Nested Category Layout extension</strong> allows you to show products organized by category and sub-category on the shop and catalog pages. By breaking products up by subcategory, this plugin provides an intuitive and attractive catalog layout that your customers will appreciate. Here are before and after shots of the shop page using Nested Category Layout:</p>
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<figure id="attachment_1095323" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1095323" style="width: 823px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/woocommerce-nested-category-layout-before.png"><img class="size-large wp-image-1095323" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/woocommerce-nested-category-layout-before.png?w=823" alt="WooCommerce Nested Category Layout Before" width="823" height="893" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-1095323" class="wp-caption-text">Before</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_1095324" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1095324" style="width: 822px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/woocommerce-nested-category-layout-after.png"><img class="size-large wp-image-1095324" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/woocommerce-nested-category-layout-after.png?w=822" alt="WooCommerce Nested Category Layout After" width="822" height="950" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-1095324" class="wp-caption-text">After</figcaption></figure>
</div></p>
<p>WooCommerce typically allows you to show subcategories on shop and category pages (or subcategories and products, but this can look messy). While this is a handy option, it requires that customers click on categories, then subcategories to simply browse products and looks like this:</p>
<figure id="attachment_1095319" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1095319" style="width: 586px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/woocommerce-typical-subcategories.png"><img class="size-large wp-image-1095319" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/woocommerce-typical-subcategories.png?w=586" alt="WooCommerce shop category layout" width="586" height="413" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-1095319" class="wp-caption-text">Default WooCommerce Category View</figcaption></figure>
<p>However, the more barriers you put in the way of finding a product or purchasing, the more likely customers are to leave your site, so we’ve sought to fix that with this plugin. Nested Category Layout cleans this process up and makes it simpler for the user. Instead of requiring customers to click through categories, then subcategories to get to products, it simply creates list on the shop and/or category pages organized by category / subcategory, then allows customers to click a category / subcategory title if they want to see more products.</p>
<p>You can select which categories to nest and which to display normally and determine whether to show this layout on shop pages and category pages, or just on category pages. Want to see this in action? You can check out the <a href="http://demos.skyverge.com/product-category/nested-category-layout/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Demo Shop</a> that has the plugin running to get a feel for how the shop and catalog pages are changed.</p>
<h3>Flexible Display</h3>
<p>Don’t have a category for a product? No problem – Nested Category Layout will show these products at the top of the page, then show your categories and subcategories. If a product is in both the parent category and a subcategory, it will be displayed with the appropriate subcategory. If a product is only in a parent category, then it will be displayed in the parent category before subcategories are shown (like this):</p>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/woocommerce-nested-category-layout-category-page.png"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-1095268" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/woocommerce-nested-category-layout-category-page.png?w=609" alt="WooCommerce Nested Category Page" width="609" height="950" /></a></p>
<h3>How to Get Started</h3>
<ol>
<li>Purchase and download the extension 🙂</li>
<li>Upload and install into your WooCommerce store</li>
<li>Go to WooCommerce > Settings > Products and configure your options</li>
<li>Organize products into categories and subcategories</li>
<li>That’s it! Sit back and enjoy a flexible, intuitive catalog display!</li>
</ol>
<p><em>Need any more reason to buy? When you purchase a SkyVerge-developed extension, you’re getting the highest quality extensions for your WooCommerce store. Gain peace of mind by knowing that when you purchase our products, your store’s performance is as important to us as it is to you.</em></p>

Nested Category Layout

<p>Display products grouped by sub-category on the shop and catalog pages.</p>

Catalog Visibility Options vs Nested Category Layout