Even the hardest entrepreneur sometimes needs to rest. Your online store can complete a lot of heavy work for you, but sometimes you need to offline everything for major reset. If you need to suspend your store, make sure you make the correct plan to manage and reopen it.
Why press the pause button?
There are many reasons for you to stop the new orders from entering your store in a short time. Especially small stores usually only rely on a few people to operate behind the scenes. This means that when they are not available, their online stores are not available. But sometimes for business reasons, even more stores need to be suspended.
If the following situation occurs, you may need to \”stop\” for a period of time:
You are an individual operator, life will hinder you -such as personal holidays, diseases or diseases or diseases Family emergency.
You are the boss, you want to let your employees take a few days off on the holiday weekend.
You are the creative power behind the store, you need to temporarily put on daily operations, focus on new product creation and artistic output.
Your store has been doing a lot of business, and you need time to process unfinished orders.
When updating and comparing online and offline stores, you need everything to keep everything unchanged for a day or two.
As a business owner, please remember that you can’t always do all of this. If you need it, you can suspend your store, as long as you communicate clearly with your customers and choose the correct solution.
The option of suspension of the woocommerce store
When rest, select the most suitable method for you.
1. Use Woo Store Vacation Extension
Woo Store Vacation Extension is a choice that wants to suspend operations in a set of fixed dates. It can be seen by your entire store -so your search engine ranking will not be affected, and your customers can still check the options and make a shopping plan. However, it will disable the actual shopping cart and checkout process, which means that it cannot be sold or traded when the expansion procedure is in a state of activity.
At the free level, the expansion program also has:
In allThe page shows the store notification, so that your customers can understand the detailed information of the closing
Be able to manually close and backup the store, or set the plan to automate the process
Support multiple languages \u200b\u200b
Want more flexibility? The extended paid version allows you to choose to buy a derived shutdown time by buying a definition of a definition. Alternatively, you can allow shoppers to still buy specific products -such as digital . If you follow the regular shutdown cycle, you can also set multiple holiday timetables for future use.
Note: Since this expansion is not part of Or review it.
2. Use PHP fragments
For developers who want to maintain lightweight as much as possible, you can use code fragments to prevent access to shopping carts and checkout processes Essence For those who like to use theme code, this is a high -level solution, but for those who understand the basic knowledge of PHP, it is a concise and clear solution.
The key to the clip is:
Use the hook to delete all the shop operations that allow the product to be placed in a shopping cart or check out; Add a message to all pages related to the store to explain to the visitors the current closure of details.
You can find a great basic fragment on the Business Bloomer blog. Do you want to become more beautiful? Add a opening/switch to your WOOCOMMERCE settings so that you can manually activate your holiday settings as needed.
3. Cancel the release product a low that makes your store offline offline The technical answer is to remove all products, at least temporarily removed. Any product that cannot be shipped during closing can be removed from the store in appearance and function, so it cannot be ordered. You can temporarily delete the product from the Woocommerce in several different ways:
Each affected product from the \”release\” from the WordPress product list The state moves to the \”draft\” state. The product will no longer be displayed to any visitor and cannot be ordered.Please note that this means that any posted external link to your product will temporarily report errors.
Move each affected product from the \”public\” state to \”private\” in the product list of WordPress. The product will not be displayed publicly, but the login administrator can still view it. This means that if you need, you can still order the customer. Please note that this means that any of your products have published external links are not suitable for most visitors.
The visibility of the Woocommerce store was changed to \”hidden\”. This means that people will not be able to see products when browsing your website, but they can still be seen when searching. Please note that any of these products have been released on the outside. May need additional code fragments to completely prevent them from receiving new orders.
This solution is most suitable for very short -term shutdown and only a few products are affected, because there is a higher degree of artificial intervention and the possibility of human errors.
However, if you only want to offline some products, this is also a good solution. And for those who want a fast and simple way to control one or two days of availability, it is very suitable. 4. Use the high -level directory mode extension Finally, if you need a higher -level product access rule, the extension of the advanced directory mode is a good choice. It converts your online store into a directory, showing your product without the price or checkout button. Visitors are then invited to contact the store to obtain quotations or arrange purchases in other ways.
After the expansion is in place, guests visiting the website will be able to view the product, but they cannot add them to the shopping cart unless they meet certain rules. Then, you can choose to open a store with:
Personalized quotation request: Use the form to redo the visitors to the new page to obtain more details and provide them with a custom project quotation [123 ]
Exclusive shopkeeper: Only allows batch or wholesale orders under the login user with correct credentials
Although the directory mode is designed for a long time, one of its benefits is that it can be in it in it You can easily suspend your store when you catch up with an order or check the inventory. You only need to click a few times to disable the purchase, but keep your product visible and keep your search engine ranking.
At the time, what you don’t want to do is to lose the customer. By adopting several key steps, make sure you keep your own interest and let your shoppers participate.
Add notification. Don’t let your website visitors feel confused when seeing the product, but cannot add it to their shopping cart. Make sure that you have a striking notice on the top of all store related pages, indicating that you are temporarily closed, but you will soon resume your order. If only some products are affected, please redirect the client to the store area that is open at the same time. Notify your customers on all platforms. Use your social media platform and current affairs communication to let your old customers know that it is about to be closed. As much as possible to warn them so that they can accept orders.
If possible, specify the return date.
For your store notification and social media notification, please provide the return date as much as possible. If you don’t know the exact date, at least let them reassure, these products will eventually return and will not be permanently deleted.
Maintain your search engine ranking. In addition to the very short closure of the situation, try to let your products be visible at the front of your website to keep your search ranking. This means that the use of extension, code or directory mode is suspended, but still keeps your store products completely indexed by search engines. This can also prevent any 404 errors from external advertising or other websites from direct links to your product.
It is necessary to suspend your Woocommerce store requires some additional steps and more preparations, not just hanging a \”closure\” logo on the door. But through appropriate plans and correct tools, you can breathe.
