<h3>What is Groups?</h3>
<p>The Groups plugin for WordPress is an essential tool that helps you organize users on your website. Think of it like sorting people into different clubs or teams, where each club has its own set of rules about who can access and do what.</p>
<h3>Why use it?</h3>
<p>This plugin is very useful if you want to control who can see certain content or perform specific actions on your website. It helps you to keep some parts of your website exclusive to specific groups or to give special rights to some users.</p>
<p>Groups works great with WooCommerce, so you can make some products only available to members of certain groups.</p>
<h3>What it Does</h3>
<p>It allows you to create groups, assign users to these groups, and set permissions for what each group can do or see on your site.</p>
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<h3>Ease of Use</h3>
<p>The Groups plugin works within the familiar WordPress Dashboard, so you do not need to learn something completely new. Clean views and clear functions make it quick and easy to work with.</p>
<h3>Control Content</h3>
<p>You can make parts of your website visible to members of specific groups only, which is great for managing exclusive areas and products. You can protect whole pages, products and other types of content. You can also protect sections within pages.</p>
<h3>Control Permissions</h3>
<p>Define what actions users in particular groups can perform, based on standard WordPress capabilities and custom capabilities provided by plugins.</p>
<h3>In a Nutshell</h3>
<p>The Groups plugin makes managing your WordPress site easier, especially if you need to control who can do what or see what. It is designed to be easy to use, reducing the complexity of user management and content access.</p>
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<h3>Key Features</h3>
<h4>Membership Management</h4>
<p>You can put users into different groups, similar to assigning them to different classes or teams.</p>
<h4>Content Access Control</h4>
<p>You can decide that only specific groups can see certain content, posts, pages or products. If you are not in the right group, you will not see that protected content.</p>
<h4>Capabilities</h4>
<p>You can assign special rights to users based on which group they are a member of.</p>
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<h3>Comprehensive Features</h3>
<p>Groups is powerful and effective, yet simple and easy to use. While its flexibility covers a wide range of functions, some of the most commonly used aspects include:</p>
<h4>User groups</h4>
<ul>
<li>Supports an unlimited number of groups</li>
<li>Provides a Registered group which is automatically maintained</li>
<li>Users can be assigned to any group</li>
<li>Users are added automatically to the Registered group</li>
</ul>
<h4>Groups hierarchy</h4>
<ul>
<li>Supports group hierarchies with capability inheritance</li>
</ul>
<h4>Group capabilities</h4>
<ul>
<li>Integrates standard WordPress capabilities which can be assigned to groups and users</li>
<li>Supports custom capabilities: allows to define new capabilities for usage in plugins and web applications</li>
<li>Users inherit capabilities of the groups they belong to</li>
<li>Groups inherit capabilities of their parent groups</li>
</ul>
<h4>Access control</h4>
<p>Access to pages (posts, pages, products and other post types) can be restricted by group.</p>
<p>If access to a page is restricted to one or more groups, only users who belong to one of those groups may view it.</p>
<p>Fully supports custom post types, so that access to post types such as products or events can easily be restricted.</p>
<ul>
<li>Built-in access control that allows to restrict access to whole pages to specific groups only.</li>
<li>Blocks: The <em>Groups Member</em> block allows to restrict the visibility of its content to members of selected groups. The <em>Groups Non-Member</em> block hides its content from members of chosen groups. The blocks can be nested to provide multiple layers of access control to content.</li>
<li>Shortcodes allow to control who can access sections of content on pages, show parts to members of certain groups or to those who are not members. Shortcodes can also be used to show content for users based on their capabilities.</li>
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<h4>Easy user interface</h4>
<ul>
<li>Integrates nicely with the standard WordPress Users menu</li>
<li>Provides an intuitive Groups menu</li>
<li>Conceptually clean views showing the essentials</li>
<li>Quick filters to locate groups, capabilities, users and pages</li>
<li>Bulk-actions where needed, apply capabilities to groups, add users to groups, remove users from groups, protect pages in bulk</li>
</ul>
<h4>Sensible options</h4>
<ul>
<li>Enable access restrictions by custom post type</li>
<li>An optional tree view for groups can be shown when desired</li>
<li>Provides its own set of permissions</li>
<li>Administrator overrides for tests</li>
<li>Cleans up after testing with a “delete all plugin data” option</li>
</ul>
<h4>Framework</h4>
<ul>
<li>Groups is designed based on a solid and sound data-model with a complete API that allows developers to create group-oriented web applications and plugins</li>
</ul>
<h4>Multisite</h4>
<ul>
<li>All features are supported independently for each blog in multisite installations</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Extensions</h3>
<p>You can add more features with official extensions that further integrate Groups and WooCommerce. Among the extensions in the WooCommerce Marketplace we recommend:</p>
<h4><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/groups-woocommerce/">Groups Integration</a></h4>
<p>Sell Memberships with Groups and WooCommerce. Grants memberships based on products. It automatically assigns a customer to one or more groups based on the products ordered.</p>
<h4><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/group-coupons/">Group Coupons</a></h4>
<p>Automatically apply and restrict coupon validity for user groups. Offer exclusive, automatic and targeted discounts for your customers.</p>
<h4><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-product-search/">WooCommerce Product Search</a></h4>
<p>The perfect Search Engine helps customers to find and buy products quickly – essential for every WooCommerce store. Supports performance features based on group memberships.</p>
<h4><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/restrict-payment-methods/">Restrict Payment Methods</a></h4>
<p>Limit the use of Payment Methods by Group Memberships, Roles, Countries, and Order Amounts.</p>
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Groups

<p><strong>Smart Email Recipients</strong> for WooCommerce gives you complete control over how your store emails are routed — ensuring the right people receive the right notifications based on what customers purchase.</p>
<p>By default, WooCommerce sends emails to fixed recipients. This plugin replaces that limitation with a flexible rule-based system that dynamically assigns recipients depending on products or categories in each order.</p>
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<h3>Route Emails Based on Products</h3>
<p>Create rules that trigger when specific products are included in an order.<br />
This allows you to notify the exact team members responsible for handling those products — whether it’s sales, fulfillment, or support.</p>
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<h3>Use Product Categories for Smarter Automation</h3>
<p>Instead of selecting products one by one, you can assign recipients based on entire categories.</p>
<p>This is especially useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>Stores with large or frequently updated catalogs</li>
<li>Teams organized by product type</li>
<li>Automating workflows without constant rule updates</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Full Control Over To, CC, and BCC</h3>
<p>For every rule, you can define recipients across:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>To</strong> – primary recipients</li>
<li><strong>CC</strong> – additional visible recipients</li>
<li><strong>BCC</strong> – hidden recipients</li>
</ul>
<p>This gives you complete flexibility to structure internal and external communications exactly how you need.</p>
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<h3>Flexible Recipient Selection</h3>
<p>Choose how recipients are assigned:</p>
<ul>
<li>Select individual users directly</li>
<li>Include users based on their roles (e.g., Shop Managers, Editors)</li>
<li>Add custom email addresses manually</li>
</ul>
<p>You can also combine all these options within the same rule.</p>
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<h3>Create Multiple Rules with Ease</h3>
<p>Build unlimited rules to match different scenarios in your store.</p>
<p>Each rule can:</p>
<ul>
<li>Target specific products or categories</li>
<li>Define its own recipients</li>
<li>Apply to selected WooCommerce emails</li>
</ul>
<p>This allows you to create highly customized email flows for every type of order.</p>
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<h3>Apply Rules to Specific WooCommerce Emails</h3>
<p>Choose exactly which emails each rule should affect, such as:</p>
<ul>
<li>New Order</li>
<li>Processing Order</li>
<li>Completed Order</li>
<li>Customer notifications</li>
</ul>
<p>This ensures recipients only receive relevant emails — no unnecessary noise.</p>
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<h3>Works for Bulk and Product-Level Control</h3>
<ul>
<li>Configure global rules that apply across your store</li>
<li>Add product-level recipient settings for more granular control</li>
</ul>
<p>This combination gives you both flexibility and precision.</p>
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<h3>Real-World Use Cases</h3>
<ul>
<li>Send order emails to different vendors based on purchased products</li>
<li>Notify warehouse teams based on product categories</li>
<li>Alert specific staff members when high-priority items are ordered</li>
<li>Automatically include managers or supervisors in CC/BCC</li>
<li>Route customer-related emails to dedicated support teams</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Why Use Smart Email Recipients?</h3>
<p>Managing email notifications in WooCommerce can quickly become messy as your store grows.<br />
This plugin helps you organize and automate your email flow, reducing manual work and ensuring nothing is missed.</p>

Smart Email Recipients

<p>Automatically route WooCommerce emails to the right recipients based on purchased products or categories.<br data-start="371" data-end="374" />Add dynamic To, CC, and BCC recipients using flexible rules and conditions.</p>

Groups vs Smart Email Recipients