<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li data-section-id="1fv8xgz" data-start="113" data-end="219">Manage product purchases according to user roles through an easy-to-set restriction interface.</li>
<li data-section-id="1xqqher" data-start="220" data-end="331">Create rules based on WooCommerce user roles, product types, quantity limits, and shipping classes.</li>
<li data-section-id="alseem" data-start="332" data-end="401">Apply purchase restrictions to specific individual users.</li>
<li data-section-id="ylhsx1" data-start="402" data-end="513">Disable Add to Cart and quantity options for unauthorized users and show clear restriction notices.</li>
<li data-section-id="rl5w2q" data-start="514" data-end="605">Set minimum order quantities per user role for selected products or categories.</li>
<li data-section-id="19iao7f" data-start="606" data-end="695">Restrict purchases by product categories, specific products, or shipping classes.</li>
<li data-section-id="1w07wg9" data-start="696" data-end="791">Display real-time error messages on product and cart pages for quantity violations.</li>
<li data-section-id="ejbdjl" data-start="792" data-end="854">Fully customize warning messages using shortcodes.</li>
<li data-section-id="12wmrby" data-start="855" data-end="926">Hide product price from restricted users.</li>
<li data-section-id="1ijfzil" data-start="927" data-end="999">Create multiple rules for different user roles or customers.</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>
 
Sometimes you need to restrict certain products for user roles. This plugin makes it easy. 
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
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400">User roles (like wholesale customers, members, or logged-in users)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Specific selected user role </li>
<li>Specific selected individual user</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Product categories or types</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"> minimum product order quantity rules</li>
</ul>
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.
Perfect for B2B stores, membership-based shops, and anyone who wants more control over who buys what.
Purchase Restriction by User Role 
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. 

<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" />
<h2>Conditional Purchase Rules</h2>
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 user roles or specific individual users are allowed to access these products. You can easily manage which users can purchase certain items and enforce specific quantity requirements for them.
<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" />
Purchase Access Control 
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.
<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" />
Minimum product order quantities
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.
<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" />
Cart and Checkout Quantity Validation 
You can set custom messages to show on the cart and checkout page for customers who buy less than the quantity you set.
<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" />
Checkout page <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" />
Customizable Error Messages 
You can use the Restrict Product Purchases plugin to modify all warning messages that appear on product and cart pages.
<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" />
<h2>Benefits</h2>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li data-section-id="ryff1k" data-start="122" data-end="229">Control who can buy specific products and limit how many items each user can purchase in order.</li>
<li data-section-id="7zu4tj" data-start="230" data-end="312">Stop unauthorized users from accessing restricted or private products.</li>
<li data-section-id="1ksjdls" data-start="313" data-end="411">Show clear restriction messages so customers instantly understand why they cannot buy.</li>
<li data-section-id="1f01iqy" data-start="412" data-end="492">Apply purchase rules to specific user roles or individual customers.</li>
<li data-section-id="1kypgif" data-start="493" data-end="561">Prevent unwanted or incorrect orders before they are placed.</li>
<li data-section-id="11xpp5a" data-start="562" data-end="641">Protect exclusive or limited products from being purchased by everyone.</li>
<li data-section-id="15lwe2d" data-start="642" data-end="726">Reduce manual work by automatically applying purchase restriction rules.</li>
<li data-section-id="fytx05" data-start="727" data-end="812">Improve wholesale and B2B sales by controlling who can place bulk orders.</li>
<li data-section-id="1ewi0w2" data-start="813" data-end="900">Reduce customer support requests by clearly defining purchase availability.</li>
<li data-section-id="bltfeg" data-start="901" data-end="987">Manage bulk purchasing limits and avoid over-ordering 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 wholesale customers only</li>
<li data-section-id="1wor828" data-start="202" data-end="254">Allow purchases only for specific user roles</li>
<li data-section-id="1j0e0hq" data-start="255" data-end="316">Limit product access to selected individual customers</li>
<li data-section-id="19i3cso" data-start="317" data-end="377">Sell exclusive or private products to selected users</li>
<li data-section-id="19dxy12" data-start="378" data-end="437">Control bulk order quantities for certain customers</li>
<li data-section-id="lq2ioh" data-start="438" data-end="491">Prevent retail users from buying B2B products</li>
<li data-section-id="1viddqi" data-start="492" data-end="539">Offer special products to VIP customers</li>
<li data-section-id="1j8tzlk" data-start="540" data-end="603">Restrict limited stock products to eligible buyers only</li>
<li data-section-id="17g85yc" data-start="604" data-end="669">Create private catalog products not available to everyone</li>
<li data-section-id="1qnsmbs" data-start="670" data-end="721">Apply purchase limits for high-demand items</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

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.

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<h4>A flexible, well-supported, and easy-to-use WordPress membership plugin for offering free and premium content from your WordPress site</h4>
The simple membership plugin lets you protect your posts and pages so only your members can view the protected content.
<h4>Unlimited Membership Access Levels</h4>
Set up unlimited membership levels (example: free, silver, gold etc) and protect your posts and pages using the membership levels you create.
<h4>Flexible Membership Duration Options</h4>
Simple Membership supports multiple membership duration models, including:
<ul>
<li>Fixed duration (days, weeks, months, or years)</li>
<li>No expiry / until canceled</li>
<li>Fixed future expiry date</li>
<li>Annual memberships (calendar or fiscal year based)</li>
<li>Subscription-driven access</li>
</ul>
Each membership level can be configured independently to match your access rules.
<h4>User Friendly Interface for Content Protection</h4>
When you are editing a post or page in the WordPress editor, you can select to protect that post or page for your members.
Non-members viewing a protected page will be prompted to log in or become a member.
<h4>Have Free and Paid Memberships</h4>
You can configure it to have free and/or paid memberships on your site. Paid membership payment is handled securely via PayPal. Membership payment can also be accepted using Stripe or Braintree payment gateways.
Both one time and recurring/subscription payments are supported for PayPal and Stripe.
You can accept one time membership payment via Braintree payment gateway.
Option to make membership payment buttons using the new PayPal Checkout API.
There is also option to use PayPal smart buttons for membership payment.
You can enable email activation or email confirmation for the free memberships.
<h4>Membership Payments Log</h4>
All the payments from your members are recorded in the plugin. You can view them anytime by visiting the payments menu from the admin dashboard.
<h4>Developer API</h4>
There are lots of action and filter hooks that a developer can use to customize the plugin.
There is also an API that can be used to query, create, update member accounts.
<h4>Member Login Widget on The Sidebar</h4>
You can easily add a member login widget on the sidebar of your site. Simply use the login form shortcode in the sidebar widget.
You can also customize the member login widget by creating a custom template file in your theme (or child theme) folder.
Option to show a password visibility toggle option in the login form.
<h4>Documentation</h4>
Read the <a href="https://simple-membership-plugin.com/simple-membership-documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">setup documentation</a> after you install the plugin to get started.
<h4>Plugin Support</h4>
If you encounter any issues with this plugin, please visit our website to post on the support forum or contact us directly. 
https://simple-membership-plugin.com/
You can create a free forum account to ask your questions.
<h4>Additional Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Works with any WordPress theme.</li>
<li>Ability to protect photo galleries.</li>
<li>Ability to protect attachment pages.</li>
<li>Show teaser content to convert visitors into members.</li>
<li>Comments on your protected posts will also be protected automatically.</li>
<li>There is an option to enable debug logging so you can troubleshoot membership payment related issues easily (if any).</li>
<li>Ability to customize the content protection message that gets shown to non-members.</li>
<li>Ability to partially protect post or page content.</li>
<li>You can apply protection to posts and pages in bulk.</li>
<li>Ability to use merge vars in the membership email notification.</li>
<li>Membership management side is handled by the plugin.</li>
<li>Ability to manually approve your members.</li>
<li>Ability to import WordPress users as members.</li>
<li>Search for a member’s profile in your WP admin dashboard.</li>
<li>Filter members list by account status.</li>
<li>Filter members list by membership level.</li>
<li>Site admins can save private notes about members, providing a convenient way to keep track of important information.</li>
<li>Can be translated to any language.</li>
<li>Hide the admin toolbar from the frontend of your site.</li>
<li>Allow your members to delete their membership accounts.</li>
<li>Send quick notification email to your members.</li>
<li>Email all members by membership level, with an option to filter by account status.</li>
<li>Customize the password reset email for members.</li>
<li>Use Google reCAPTCHA on your member registration form.</li>
<li>Use Google reCAPTCHA on your member login and password reset form.</li>
<li>The login and registration widgets will be responsive if you are using a responsive theme.</li>
<li>Ability to restrict the commenting feature on your site to your members only.</li>
<li>Front-end member registration page.</li>
<li>Front-end member profiles.</li>
<li>Front-end member login page.</li>
<li>Option to configure after login redirection for members.</li>
<li>Option to configure after registration redirect for members.</li>
<li>Option to configure after logout redirection for members.</li>
<li>Option force the members to use strong password.</li>
<li>Option to make the users agree to your terms and conditions before they can register for a member account.</li>
<li>Option to make the users agree to your privacy policy before they can register for a member account.</li>
<li>Option to hide the registration/join option. Useful if you prefer visitors not to see the registration option on your site.</li>
<li>Option to automatically logout the members when they close the browser.</li>
<li>Ability to forward the payment notification to an external URL for further processing.</li>
<li>Option to configure whitelisting for user email addresses to allow registration only from specific email addresses or email domains.</li>
<li>Option to configure blacklisting for user email addresses to block registration from certain email addresses or email domains.</li>
<li>Allows you to set an active login limit for members, helping to prevent account sharing.</li>
<li>Option to enable and set failed login attempt limit, which helps to protect against brute force attacks.</li>
<li>Option to enable login event tracking, allowing you to view the history of member logins.</li>
<li>Option to reset the settings and data of the plugin to start fresh.</li>
<li>Option to configure PayPal payment buttons for memberships (one-time and recurring payments).</li>
<li>Option to configure Stripe payment buttons for memberships (one-time and recurring payments).</li>
<li>Option to configure Braintree payment buttons for memberships (one-time payments).</li>
<li>Free Social Login addon that lets users log in with their Google or Facebook accounts.</li>
<li>The plugin is actively maintained and we are working on new features for the plugin.</li>
<li>Browse the <a href="https://simple-membership-plugin.com/simple-membership-documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin documentation</a> to learn more about the features of this plugin.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Language Translations</h4>
The following language translations are already available:
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>German</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
<li>Spanish (Venezuela)</li>
<li>Chinese</li>
<li>Portuguese (Brazil)</li>
<li>Portuguese (Portugal)</li>
<li>Swedish</li>
<li>Macedonian</li>
<li>Polish</li>
<li>Turkish</li>
<li>Russian</li>
<li>Dutch (Netherlands)</li>
<li>Dutch (Belgium)</li>
<li>Romanian</li>
<li>Danish</li>
<li>Lithuanian</li>
<li>Serbian</li>
<li>Japanese</li>
<li>Greek</li>
<li>Latvian</li>
<li>Indonesian</li>
<li>Hebrew</li>
<li>Catalan</li>
<li>Hungarian</li>
<li>Bosnian (Bosnia and Herzegovina)</li>
<li>Slovak</li>
<li>Italian</li>
<li>Norwegian</li>
<li>Mexican</li>
<li>Arabic</li>
<li>Czech</li>
<li>Finnish</li>
</ul>
You can translate the plugin using the language <a href="https://simple-membership-plugin.com/translate-simple-membership-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">translation documentation</a>.

Simple Membership


upon reflection, the devs are doing an amazing job. They're providing an intricate piece of software to the community for free. Thanks guys.



there's a little room for improvement in terms of the docs and the core functionality. But overall, I'd recommend this software to others.


Not there yet; but impressive nonetheless 👏

Simple Membership is an excellent plugin that delivers exactly what it promises. The setup is straightforward, and it offers all the features needed for content protection and membership management. Its flexibility and compatibility with other plugins are particularly impressive. Highly recommended!

Excellent plugin - highly recommended


The plugin is simple to set up and use. It is necessary to read the documentation, but it clearly explains how to set it up and use. Well done!


Simple, yet powerful

Simple membership plugin adds membership functionality to your site. Protect members only content using content protection easily.

Restrict Product Purchases vs Simple Membership