<p><span style="font-weight: 400">The world we live in today believes in real-time and instant updates on the interactions customers have with any online store. The WooCommerce SMS alert notifications plugin is one of the strings to which online stores can hold onto for prompt alerts. This WooCommerce plugin caters to the informational needs of both store administrators and customers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">For store admins, the store activity alerts received are related to customer registrations, new order requests, and stock alerts. On the other side, your customers get SMS alerts for order statuses and back-in-stock items.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">This WooCommerce SMS alert notifications plugin can help you cut down the communication gap between the store admins and customers in order placement and processing. You can also build trust in your customers by providing them with timely updates they crave. </span></p>
<h3>Features List:</h3>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Instant SMS alerts for admins</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Updates on order status for customers</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Back-in-stock button for customers to sign up for stock alerts</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Set SMS alerts for customers based on order status</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Multiple SMS delivery service providers</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Personalized alerts with SMS text customization</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><b>Configure Store Admin’s Number</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">For smooth and swift store management practices, admins can configure their phone numbers to receive timely SMS alerts. The SMS notifications received by the admins will be related to new registrations, incoming orders, and out-of-stock alerts. </span></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734004996948 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot-from-2025-03-05-08-28-20.png" alt="Configure Store Admin’s Number" width="807" height="137" /></p>
<h3><b>SMS Alert Variations for Store Admin</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">With the WooCommerce SMS alert notification plugin, the store administration can receive varying notifications on their configured numbers. For better customer management, the store admin receives SMS alerts for new customer registrations. These notifications also include the incoming orders so that the admin is swift in processing and fulfilling the order. The admins also receive alerts on low stock for guaranteed product management and availability for the customers.  </span> <img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734004996950 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot-from-2025-03-05-08-29-03.png" alt="SMS Alert Variations for Store Admin" width="819" height="270" /></p>
<h3><b>Real-time SMS Alerts for Customers</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Sending real-time and instant alerts to customers about their order status is crucial to helping them track their orders. These alerts keep your customers engaged throughout their buying journey, thus leading to satisfied customers. The SMS alert plugin for WooCommerce also lets you set a “Back-in-stock” button so that the customer can sign up for notifications for products that are currently out of stock. </span></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734004996951 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot-from-2025-03-05-08-30-04.png" alt="Real-time SMS Alerts for Customers" width="1112" height="333" /></p>
<h3><b>Customize Order Status Alerts</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">To avoid unnecessary and unwanted order status updates and alerts for the customers, you can choose a specific order status for which you want to generate alerts. You will see all the order statuses in a table from where you can choose the statues for which you want to trigger the alert for the customers. For example, you can disable SMS for orders with the “Pending” and “Failed” statuses and enable it only for those with the “Processing” and “Shipped” statuses.</span></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734004996953 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot-from-2025-03-05-08-31-17.png" alt="Customize Order Status Alerts" width="873" height="301" /></p>
<h3><b>Choose the SMS Delivery Service</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Keeping your ease and comfort in mind, this plugin helps you choose from a list of SMS delivery options. You can choose from these SMS delivery services: Twilio, Vonage, ClickSend, and BulkGate. Go with the SMS provider service that sits well with your business needs and comfort. </span></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734004996954 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot-from-2025-03-05-08-32-27.png" alt="Choose the SMS Delivery Service" width="765" height="306" /></p>
<h3><b>Personalized Alerts With Customizable SMS Text</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">To inject a sense of personalization and offer a better customer experience, personalize the alerts for the customers. With the use of dynamic placeholders, you can customize these alerts for a much clearer message conveyance for your customers and the admins, of course.</span></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734004996956 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot-from-2025-03-05-08-33-39.png" alt="" width="927" height="486" /></p>

SMS Alert Notifications

<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Get real-time SMS alerts and updates with the SMS alert notification plugin for WooCommerce store admins and customers. </span></p>

<h2>Automatically Open and Close Your Store</h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">The WooCommerce Open Close plugin allows you to manage your online store’s business hours easily. You can set daily hours, hide the “Add to Cart” button during off-hours, and close your store for holidays or events. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">You can also schedule multiple hourly time slots and customize display pop-ups and messages for customers. The plugin also allows manual store closures and full-screen banners to display maintenance or coming soon messages.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">You can also customize the display pop-ups and messages for customers, letting them know if your store is under maintenance or if a product is coming soon. This way, you can easily manage your WooCommerce store and keep your customers informed.</span></p>
<h3><strong>Features</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Setup Store routines such as business days, and working hours</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Schedule Breaks During Working Hours</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Display a store closure message in a bar or popup</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Disable the Add to Cart option when the store is closed</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Exclude specific products or categories from shopping restrictions</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Notify visitors about maintenance with custom messages and a countdown timer</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Inform visitors about coming soon products and send email notifications when the product is available</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Temporary close your store for an event</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Manually close your store with one click</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Customize store closure popup and bar</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Personalize upcoming closure notifications</span></li>
</ul>
<div class="woo-sc-box normal" style="background-color: #beecba">This Plugin is fully compatible with HPOS(High-Performance Order Storage) and Multisite.</div>
<h3><strong>Display closure message in popup or bar</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">WooCommerce close store lets you inform your customers with a personalized message about store closure. You can choose between a popup or a bar to display the message and set an automatic time for the disappearance or let the users manually close the pop-up. </span></p>
<h4><strong>Notification Popup:</strong></h4>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734002663048 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2023-10-04_14-53-11.png" alt="Display closure message in popup" width="917" height="539" /></p>
<h4><strong>Notification Bar:</strong></h4>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734002663044 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2023-10-04_14-55-58.png" alt="Display closure message in a bar" width="1341" height="544" /></p>
<h3><strong>Temporary close the store for Upcoming Events</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">WooCommerce temporarily close shop plugin allows the store owners to select the date of closure and specify custom opening and closing hours along with a personalized message. This feature enables you to set your holiday times and display customized notifications.</span></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734002663040 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2023-10-04_14-56-51.png" alt="Temporary close the store for Upcoming Events" width="958" height="573" /></p>
<h3><b>Let Customers know that you are coming soon or on maintenance mode</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">The WooCommerce maintenance mode plugin enables you to display a full-screen banner for maintenance mode or coming soon with a custom message. You can also display a countdown timer so the customers can know when the store will open again. You can use this functionality in the following cases:</span></p>
<ul>
<li>
<h4><b>Maintenance mode</b></h4>
</li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Display a full-screen banner with the WooCommerce maintenance mode plugin when your store is in maintenance mode. Enter a custom heading, message, and countdown timer to let customers know that your WooCommerce store is under maintenance and when will it re-open.</span></p>
<ul>
<li>
<h4><b>Display a custom message for coming soon</b></h4>
</li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">The WooCommerce coming soon plugin enables you to display a custom screen-wide banner for coming soon. In case of store closure, you can let customers know with custom messages along with a countdown timer. This also allows users to get email notifications for the opening of the store by entering their email addresses.</span></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734001178047 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/banner.png" alt="Let Customers know that you are coming soon or on maintenance mode" width="1307" height="751" /></p>
<h3><strong>Disable Add to Cart </strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">You can prevent orders by disabling the ‘Add to Cart’ option during store closure hours. Specific pages or products can be excluded.</span></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-8291843 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Disable-Add-to-Cart.png" alt="WooCommerce open close store - Disable Add to Cart" width="673" height="506" /></p>
<h3><strong>Set opening/closing hours & display schedule using a shortcode</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Automate your store’s opening and closing with the Close WooCommerce Store plugin. Set working hours and breaks for each day of the week, and schedule lunch breaks.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">For customers to be aware of the business hours, a shortcode can be used to display the schedule on the front end.</span></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-8536999 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Set-opening-closing-hours-1-1.png" alt="WooCommerce open close store - Set opening/closing hours & display schedule using a shortcode" width="841" height="1048" /><br />
<img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734001205451 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Widget.webp" alt="Set opening/closing hours & display schedule using a shortcode" width="1092" height="541" /></p>
<h3><strong>Display Countdown Timer</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">The WooCommerce Opening Hours & Chosen Times plugin lets you display a countdown timer on your website to let customers know your store’s opening or closing time. Set the time in minutes or hours to show before opening or closing. You can choose to display the timer in the notification bar or pop-up, with a squared or round layout.</span></p>
<h4><strong>Popup Timer</strong></h4>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734002663059 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2023-10-04_15-27-00.png" alt="Display Countdown Timer in a popup" width="778" height="499" /></p>
<h4><strong>Bar Timer</strong></h4>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734002663036 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2023-10-04_15-17-45.png" alt="Display Countdown Timer in a bar" width="1341" height="438" /></p>
<h3><strong>Remind Customers when your Store is Open</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">WooCommerce opening hours plugin allows the admin to send customized notifications to customers through email when the store opens. Admin can set the sender name, email subject, and email body.</span></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734002663035 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2023-10-04_15-19-37.png" alt="Remind Customers when your Store is Open" width="1334" height="290" /></p>
<h3><strong>Exclude products or categories</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Allow certain products or categories to bypass the store closure with an exclusion option. Customers will continue buying such products and categories despite the store shutdown.</span></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734002663030 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2023-10-04_15-21-39.png" alt="woocommerce open close store - Exclude products or categories" width="1332" height="569" /></p>
<h3><strong>Manually close your store</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">WooCommerce close store plugin provides you with a “one-click close” feature giving the admin the freedom to manually close down the store whenever needed. Your store will stay closed until you open it back manually. </span></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-8425875 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Manually-close-your-store-2.png" alt="WooCommerce open close store - Manually close your store" width="752" height="395" /></p>
<h3><strong>Display popup on various pages </strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Inform your customers about your store closure with the pop-up feature. Ensure the store closure is conveyed to maximum users by displaying the popup on all or specific pages such as the shop, checkout, product, and cart. </span></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-8291798 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Display-popup-on-various-pages.png" alt="Display popup on various pages" width="681" height="351" /></p>
<h3><strong>Customized notifications</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Modify the look and appearance of the notifications communicating the opening or closure of your WooCommerce store. You can create different messages for different parts of the day or week according to your schedule.</span></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-8506698 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Personalize-notifications-2.png" alt="Customized notifications of opening and closing of store" width="681" height="941" /></p>
<p> </p>
<h3><strong>Use Cases:</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Any business can benefit from professional and polite communication of store closure through pop-ups.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">The food and restaurant industry can effectively communicate working hours and closures.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Online meat shops can ensure an even supply of products by closing on specific days.</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>Benefits</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Easily manage business schedule</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Create a daily or weekly schedule for your store</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Let customers know the store timings</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Take orders only when ready to serve</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Exclude products or pages that you want to keep selling</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Display customized notifications</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Inform customers when your store reopens</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Manually close your store with one click</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Run your store like a brick-and-mortar shop</span></li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<h2>Compatibility</h2>
<p>Our plugins are designed to be highly versatile and also compatible with the most commonly used themes, browsers, builders, and mobile views. We understand the importance of flexibility and integration when it comes to enhancing your website’s functionality. Our plugins can effortlessly integrate with the following:</p>
<h3>Themes Compatibility</h3>
<ul>
<li>Store Front</li>
<li>Avada</li>
<li>Flatsome</li>
<li>Porto</li>
<li>Woodmart</li>
<li>WooCommerce default theme</li>
<li>Divi</li>
</ul>
<h3>Builders</h3>
<ul>
<li>Elementor</li>
<li>Bakery</li>
<li>Divi</li>
</ul>
<h3>Also Compatible with</h3>
<ul>
<li>Multi-Site</li>
<li>PHP 8</li>
<li>Mobile Layouts</li>
<li>WPML-Static Content</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>Get started</strong></h3>
<ol>
<li>Purchase <strong>Open Close Store Hours for WooCommerce</strong> from WooCommerce.com.</li>
<li>Download and install the extension.</li>
<li>Activate the extension.</li>
<li>Go to <strong>WooCommerce > Settings > Close Store</strong> to configure the settings.</li>
<li>Read the full installation guide <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/open-close-store-hours/">here</a></li>
</ol>
<p>Automatically open and close your store just like a brick-and-mortar shop with the<strong> Open Close Store Hours for WooCommerce </strong>plugin.</p>
<h3><strong>Requirements</strong></h3>
<p>Minimum PHP version: 5.2</p>

Open/Close Store Hours & Maintenance mode

<p>Set a daily schedule to allow customers to shop during specific hours with open and close store functionality. Display holidays, coming soon & maintenance mode banners.</p>

SMS Alert Notifications vs Open/Close Store Hours & Maintenance mode