<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li data-section-id="1fv8xgz" data-start="113" data-end="219"><strong data-start="115" data-end="167">Manage product purchases according to user roles</strong> through an <strong data-start="179" data-end="216">easy-to-set restriction interface</strong>.</li>
<li data-section-id="1xqqher" data-start="220" data-end="331"><strong data-start="222" data-end="238">Create rules</strong> based on <strong data-start="248" data-end="328">WooCommerce user roles, product types, quantity limits, and shipping classes</strong>.</li>
<li data-section-id="alseem" data-start="332" data-end="401"><strong data-start="334" data-end="365">Apply purchase restrictions</strong> to <strong data-start="369" data-end="398">specific individual users</strong>.</li>
<li data-section-id="ylhsx1" data-start="402" data-end="513"><strong data-start="404" data-end="448">Disable Add to Cart and quantity options</strong> for unauthorized users and <strong data-start="476" data-end="510">show clear restriction notices</strong>.</li>
<li data-section-id="rl5w2q" data-start="514" data-end="605"><strong data-start="516" data-end="562">Set minimum order quantities per user role</strong> for <strong data-start="567" data-end="602">selected products or categories</strong>.</li>
<li data-section-id="19iao7f" data-start="606" data-end="695"><strong data-start="608" data-end="692">Restrict purchases by product categories, specific products, or shipping classes</strong>.</li>
<li data-section-id="1w07wg9" data-start="696" data-end="791"><strong data-start="698" data-end="734">Display real-time error messages</strong> on <strong data-start="738" data-end="764">product and cart pages</strong> for quantity violations.</li>
<li data-section-id="ejbdjl" data-start="792" data-end="854"><strong data-start="794" data-end="830">Fully customize warning messages</strong> using <strong data-start="837" data-end="851">shortcodes</strong>.</li>
<li data-section-id="12wmrby" data-start="855" data-end="926"><strong data-start="857" data-end="897">Hide product price</strong> from <strong data-start="903" data-end="923">restricted users</strong>.</li>
<li data-section-id="1ijfzil" data-start="927" data-end="999"><strong data-start="929" data-end="954">Create multiple rules</strong> for <strong data-start="959" data-end="996">different user roles or customers</strong>.</li>
</ul>
<div class="wccom-product-add-to-cart-button wccom-product-primary-action-button"><a class="wccom-button single_add_to_cart_button is-style-primary is-large" style="width: 20%" href="/products/restrict-product-purchases/?add-to-cart=18734005231453&redirect-to-checkout=1" data-tracks-locale="en_US" data-tracks-position="product_main_cta" data-tracks-is_paid="1" data-tracks-source="buy-now-button" data-tracks-is_trending="0" data-tracks-is_freemium="0" data-tracks-used_currency="USD" data-tracks-subscription_plan="__default" data-tracks-product-id="18734005231453" data-tracks-is-business-service="0" data-tracks-page_type="product">Buy Now</a></div>
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<h2>Restrict Purchases by User Role, Specific Customers, and Quantity Rules</h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400"><br />
Sometimes you need to restrict certain products for user roles. This plugin makes it easy.</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400">Once installed, you’ll find a new “Purchase Restriction” tab under WooCommerce settings. From there, you can create unlimited rules to control product visibility and purchase access based on</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><strong>User roles (like wholesale customers, members, or logged-in users)</strong></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><strong>Specific selected user role </strong></li>
<li><strong>Specific selected individual user</strong></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><strong>Product categories or types</strong></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><strong> minimum product order quantity rules</strong></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">If a user doesn’t meet the conditions, they won’t see the Add to Cart button, price, or even the product itself (based on your settings). You can also set custom messages for restricted users.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Perfect for B2B stores, membership-based shops, and anyone who wants more control over who buys what.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, serif"><span style="font-size: large"><b>Purchase Restriction by User Role</b><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400">with woocommerce restricted products. You can easily manage purchase access for customers, administrators, authors, and other user roles through a simple interface that lets you activate, edit, or delete rules as needed.</span><br />
</span></span></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734005242450" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/screenshot-nexolistech.com-2025.04.30-20_13_411.png?w=896" alt="Restrict Product Purchase Rules" width="896" height="454" /></p>
<h2>Conditional Purchase Rules</h2>
<p>With the WooCommerce Restriction Rules plugin, you have full control over who can buy what in your store. Set minimum purchase quantities for specific products or categories and define which <strong data-start="485" data-end="528">user roles or specific individual users</strong> are allowed to access these products. You can easily manage which users can purchase certain items and enforce specific quantity requirements for them.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-18734006112181" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Easily-create-conditional-purchase-rules-for-products-and-categories.-Select-whether-the-rule-applies-to-specific-user-roles-or-individual-users-and-set-minimum-quantity-requirements.png?w=980" alt="Easily create conditional purchase rules for products and categories. Select whether the rule applies to specific user roles or individual users, and set minimum quantity requirements." width="980" height="460" /></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, serif"><span style="font-size: large"><b>Purchase Access Control</b><br />
Non selected users lose the ability to buy restricted products because the Add to Cart directive and quantity tool disappear while showing the “You are not allowed to purchase this product” message.</span></span></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734005242453" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/screenshot-nexolistech.com-2025.04.30-20_17_49.png?w=896" alt="Purchase Access Control" width="896" height="454" /></p>
<p><b>Minimum product order quantities</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">This plugin allows If a user tries to purchase less than the minimum quantity set by the store admin, an error message will appear directly on the product page. This ensures that customers meet the required quantity before they can add the product to their cart.</span></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734005242635" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/screenshot-nexolistech.com-2025.05.01-01_00_37.png?w=896" alt="" width="896" height="454" /></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, serif"><span style="font-size: large"><b>Cart and Checkout Quantity Validation</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, serif"><span style="font-size: large"><br />
You can set custom messages to show on the cart and checkout page for customers who buy less than the quantity you set.</span></span></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734005242452" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/screenshot-nexolistech.com-2025.04.30-20_19_07.png?w=896" alt="Enforce Minimum Order Quantities" width="896" height="454" /></p>
<p><strong>Checkout page </strong><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734005242451" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/screenshot-nexolistech.com-2025.04.30-20_19_39.png?w=896" alt="" width="896" height="454" /></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, serif"><span style="font-size: large"><b>Customizable Error Messages</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, serif"><span style="font-size: large"><br />
</span></span>You can use the <strong>Restrict Product Purchases plugin</strong> to modify all warning messages that appear on product and cart pages.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734005242647" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/screenshot-nexolistech.com-2025.05.01-01_02_32.png?w=896" alt="Customizable Error Messages" width="896" height="454" /></p>
<h2>Benefits</h2>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li data-section-id="ryff1k" data-start="122" data-end="229"><strong data-start="124" data-end="165">Control who can buy specific products</strong> and <strong data-start="170" data-end="194">limit how many items</strong> each user can purchase in order.</li>
<li data-section-id="7zu4tj" data-start="230" data-end="312"><strong data-start="232" data-end="259">Stop unauthorized users</strong> from accessing <strong data-start="275" data-end="309">restricted or private products</strong>.</li>
<li data-section-id="1ksjdls" data-start="313" data-end="411"><strong data-start="315" data-end="350">Show clear restriction messages</strong> so customers instantly understand <strong data-start="385" data-end="408">why they cannot buy</strong>.</li>
<li data-section-id="1f01iqy" data-start="412" data-end="492"><strong data-start="414" data-end="438">Apply purchase rules</strong> to <strong data-start="442" data-end="489">specific user roles or individual customers</strong>.</li>
<li data-section-id="1kypgif" data-start="493" data-end="561"><strong data-start="495" data-end="535">Prevent unwanted or incorrect orders</strong> before they are placed.</li>
<li data-section-id="11xpp5a" data-start="562" data-end="641"><strong data-start="564" data-end="605">Protect exclusive or limited products</strong> from being purchased by everyone.</li>
<li data-section-id="15lwe2d" data-start="642" data-end="726"><strong data-start="644" data-end="666">Reduce manual work</strong> by <strong data-start="670" data-end="723">automatically applying purchase restriction rules</strong>.</li>
<li data-section-id="fytx05" data-start="727" data-end="812"><strong data-start="729" data-end="764">Improve wholesale and B2B sales</strong> by controlling <strong data-start="780" data-end="809">who can place bulk orders</strong>.</li>
<li data-section-id="1ewi0w2" data-start="813" data-end="900"><strong data-start="815" data-end="851">Reduce customer support requests</strong> by clearly defining <strong data-start="872" data-end="897">purchase availability</strong>.</li>
<li data-section-id="bltfeg" data-start="901" data-end="987"><strong data-start="903" data-end="936">Manage bulk purchasing limits</strong> and <strong data-start="941" data-end="964">avoid over-ordering</strong> from specific users.</li>
</ul>
<h2 data-section-id="xucuav" data-start="119" data-end="146">Use Cases</h2>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li data-section-id="s8bwom" data-start="147" data-end="201">Restrict products for <strong data-start="171" data-end="199">wholesale customers only</strong></li>
<li data-section-id="1wor828" data-start="202" data-end="254">Allow purchases only for <strong data-start="229" data-end="252">specific user roles</strong></li>
<li data-section-id="1j0e0hq" data-start="255" data-end="316">Limit product access to <strong data-start="281" data-end="314">selected individual customers</strong></li>
<li data-section-id="19i3cso" data-start="317" data-end="377">Sell <strong data-start="324" data-end="357">exclusive or private products</strong> to selected users</li>
<li data-section-id="19dxy12" data-start="378" data-end="437">Control <strong data-start="388" data-end="413">bulk order quantities</strong> for certain customers</li>
<li data-section-id="lq2ioh" data-start="438" data-end="491">Prevent retail users from buying <strong data-start="473" data-end="489">B2B products</strong></li>
<li data-section-id="1viddqi" data-start="492" data-end="539">Offer special products to <strong data-start="520" data-end="537">VIP customers</strong></li>
<li data-section-id="1j8tzlk" data-start="540" data-end="603">Restrict limited stock products to <strong data-start="577" data-end="601">eligible buyers only</strong></li>
<li data-section-id="17g85yc" data-start="604" data-end="669">Create <strong data-start="613" data-end="641">private catalog products</strong> not available to everyone</li>
<li data-section-id="1qnsmbs" data-start="670" data-end="721">Apply purchase limits for <strong data-start="698" data-end="719">high-demand items</strong></li>
</ul>
<div class="wccom-product-add-to-cart-button wccom-product-primary-action-button"><a class="wccom-button single_add_to_cart_button is-style-primary is-large" style="width: 20%" href="/products/restrict-product-purchases/?add-to-cart=18734005231453&redirect-to-checkout=1" data-tracks-locale="en_US" data-tracks-position="product_main_cta" data-tracks-is_paid="1" data-tracks-source="buy-now-button" data-tracks-is_trending="0" data-tracks-is_freemium="0" data-tracks-used_currency="USD" data-tracks-subscription_plan="__default" data-tracks-product-id="18734005231453" data-tracks-is-business-service="0" data-tracks-page_type="product">Buy Now</a></div>

Restrict Product Purchases

<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Restrict Product Purchase for WooCommerce lets you limit product access by user role or membership plan. Only users with specific access can view or purchase restricted products.</span></p>

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<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>
<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>
<p>Groups integrates with <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/" rel="ugc">WooCommerce</a> to protect access to products, so that certain products can be purchased by members only.</p>
<p>Enhanced functionality is available via the <a href="https://woocommerce.com/vendor/itthinx/" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce Marketplace</a> and <a href="https://www.itthinx.com/product-category/groups/" rel="nofollow ugc">Extensions</a> for Groups.</p>
<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>
<h3>Framework</h3>
<p>Groups is designed as an efficient, powerful and flexible solution for group-oriented memberships and content access control.</p>
<p>It provides group-based user membership management, group-based capabilities and access control for content, built on solid principles.</p>
<p>Groups is light-weight and offers an easy user interface, while it acts as a framework and integrates standard WordPress capabilities and application-specific capabilities along with an extensive API.</p>
<h3>Documentation</h3>
<p>The official documentation is located at the <a href="https://docs.itthinx.com/document/groups/" rel="nofollow ugc">Groups Documentation</a> pages.</p>
<h3>Funding and Sponsors</h3>
<p>Your support matters!</p>
<p>By getting an official extension or contributing, you help fund the work that is necessary to maintain and improve Groups.</p>
<ul>
<li>Contribute directly to the Bitcoin address <em>bc1q7klf9ge8gvtl4h4qlh6c73tgk0cdehfv5vcq0g</em> where sats received are used to fund developers who help to maintain and develop Groups</li>
<li>Purchase an official <a href="https://www.itthinx.com/product-category/groups/" rel="nofollow ugc">Extension for Groups</a></li>
<li>Purchase an extension on the <a href="https://woocommerce.com/vendor/itthinx/" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce Marketplace</a></li>
<li>Sponsor the development of new features: <a href="https://www.itthinx.com/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">get in touch</a></li>
</ul>
<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 posts, pages and custom post types can be restricted by group.</p>
<p>If access to a post is restricted to one or more groups, only users who belong to one of those groups may view the post.</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 posts, pages and custom content types to specific groups and users only</li>
<li>Control access to content by groups: shortcodes allow to control who can access content on posts, show parts to members of certain groups or to those who are not members –<br />
Shortcodes: [groups_member], [groups_non_member]</li>
<li>Control access to content by capabilities: show (or do not show) content to users who have certain capabilities –<br />
Shortcodes: [groups_can], [groups_can_not]</li>
<li>Blocks: The Groups Member block allows to restrict the visibility of its content to members of selected groups.<br />
The Groups Non-Member block hides its content from members of chosen groups.<br />
The blocks can be nested to provide multiple layers of access control to content.</li>
</ul>
<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</li>
<li>Bulk-actions where needed, for example apply capabilities to groups, bulk-add users to groups, bulk-remove users from groups</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>
<h3>Extensions</h3>
<p>Enhanced functionality is available via official <a href="https://www.itthinx.com/shop/" rel="nofollow ugc">Extensions</a> for Groups.</p>
<p>Groups is a large project that is providing essential functionality to tens of thousands of sites since 2012. By getting an official extension, you help fund the work that is necessary to maintain and improve Groups.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/groups-woocommerce/" rel="nofollow ugc">Groups Integration for WooCommerce</a> : Sell Memberships with Groups and WooCommerce – the best Group Membership and Access Control solution for WordPress and WooCommerce.</li>
<li><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/group-coupons/" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce Group Coupons</a> : Automatically apply and restrict coupon validity for user groups. Offer exclusive, automatic and targeted discounts for your customers.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.itthinx.com/shop/groups-drip-content/" rel="nofollow ugc">Groups Drip Content</a> : Release content on a schedule. Content dripping can be based on user account creation, group memberships and specific dates and times.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.itthinx.com/shop/groups-file-access/" rel="nofollow ugc">Groups File Access</a> : Allows to provide file download links for authorized users. Access to files is restricted to users by their group membership.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.itthinx.com/shop/groups-restrict-categories/" rel="nofollow ugc">Groups Restrict Categories</a> : Features access restrictions for categories, tags and other WordPress taxonomies, including support for custom post types and taxonomies.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.itthinx.com/shop/groups-forums/" rel="nofollow ugc">Groups Forums</a> : A powerful and yet light-weight forum system for WordPress sites.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.itthinx.com/shop/groups-import-export/" rel="nofollow ugc">Groups Import Export</a> : Provides import and export facilities around users and groups.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.itthinx.com/shop/groups-newsletters/" rel="nofollow ugc">Groups Newsletters</a> : Newsletter Campaigns for Subscribers and Groups.</li>
<li><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-product-search/" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce Product Search</a> : The perfect Search Engine helps customers to find and buy products quickly – essential for every WooCommerce store. The search engine honors access restrictions imposed by Groups and supports caching based on WordPress roles and memberships with Groups.</li>
<li><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/restrict-payment-methods/" rel="nofollow ugc">Restrict Payment Methods</a> : Limit the use of WooCommerce Payment Methods by Group Memberships, Roles, Countries, and Order Amounts.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.itthinx.com/shop/widgets-control-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Widgets Control Pro</a> : An advanced Widget toolbox that adds visibility management and helps to control where widgets are shown efficiently.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/groups-404-redirect/" rel="ugc">Groups 404 Redirect</a> : This plugin redirects 404’s caused by hits on pages that are protected by Groups.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/groups-blog-protect/" rel="ugc">Groups Blog Protect</a> : The plugin protects a site so that only members can access its pages.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/groups-bbpress/" rel="ugc">Groups bbPress</a> : Integrates Groups and bbPress so that all topics and replies related to protected forums are also protected automatically.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Feedback</h3>
<p>Feedback is welcome!</p>
<p>If you need help, have problems, want to leave feedback or want to provide constructive criticism, please do so here at the <a href="https://www.itthinx.com/plugins/groups/" rel="nofollow ugc">Groups Plugin</a> page.</p>
<p>Please try to solve problems there before you rate this plugin or say it doesn’t work. There goes a <em>lot</em> of work into providing you with free quality plugins! Please appreciate that and help with your feedback. Many thanks!</p>
<h4>Stay informed or contribute</h4>
<p>Follow @‌itthinx on <a href="https://github.com/itthinx/" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/itthinx" rel="nofollow ugc">X – Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/itthinx/" rel="nofollow ugc">Reddit</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/@itthinx" rel="nofollow ugc">Mastodon</a>, <a href="https://rumble.com/user/itthinx" rel="nofollow ugc">Rumble</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@itthinx_official" rel="nofollow ugc">YouTube</a> for news related to Groups and other plugins.</p>
<p>Get development notifications, contribute code or open issues at the Groups repository on <a href="https://github.com/itthinx/" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.</p>
<h3>Translations</h3>
<p>Translations have been contributed by many, including <a href="https://github.com/itthinx/groups/blob/master/translators.txt" rel="nofollow ugc">Translators</a> from the WordPress community, via the GitHub repository <a href="https://github.com/itthinx/groups/" rel="nofollow ugc">Groups</a>, the section for Groups on <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/groups/" rel="nofollow ugc">Translating WordPress</a> or as direct contributions.</p>
<p>Many thanks for your help!</p>


Groups


Good plugin. I have been using it from 6 year. Thank you


Work perfectly

Groups is an efficient and powerful solution, providing group-based user membership management, group-based capabilities and content access control.

Restrict Product Purchases vs Groups