There’s many reasons why you may want to add country restrictions to your WooCommerce store. You may have products that are restricted in some countries but not others, or you may just not have stock for that specific country.
Either way, a plugin can help you integrate these restrictions into your WooCommerce store quickly and easily – let’s look at the most popular ones.
1. Country Restrictions for WooCommerce
The WooCommerce extension Country Restrictions for WooCommerce allows you to customize the purchase information by country. With its help, you can show customers only products and payment methods that are available in their country.
You can also hide the payment methods that are available for the customer’s current country if they are traveling. It helps them find their way around your store more easily, improving the user experience for international customers.
Setting up country restrictions is straightforward with the extension’s rule-based management system. You can hide specific products and categories, replace the “Add to cart” button with custom text or links, and even automatically detect a customer’s location.
It gives you granular control to define different restrictions for different countries, either at the product level or in bulk. For store owners wanting to improve their international sales process, this extension is available for $49.00 per year.
2. Country-Based Restrictions for WooCommerce
The plugin Country Based Restrictions for WooCommerce by Zorem allows you to restrict products in your store, i.e., to sell or not to sell to certain countries. It defines the customers’ countries via the WooCommerce geolocation or the shipping country they have specified.
This tool gives you three practical ways to handle restricted products in your store. You can completely hide products from certain countries, make them visible in searches but prevent purchases, or hide them from the main store while still allowing access via direct links.
The free version lets you set country rules for individual products, while the Pro version adds more powerful features like bulk management by categories or tags, CSV imports, payment method controls, and price hiding.
Setup is simple through the plugin settings page, where you select your preferred visibility option and then specify allowed or restricted countries for each product. The free version is available through the WordPress plugin directory, with Pro licenses starting at $99.00 per year for a single site.
3. Product Visibility by Country for WooCommerce
With the WooCommerce Product Visibility by Country plugin, you can hide certain products in certain countries. This plugin recognizes the countries of your customers based on their IP addresses. As a result, when customers from selected countries visit your store, restricted products will be hidden.
This plugin offers flexible control over product visibility with three main options available in WooCommerce Settings. You can hide products from store pages while still allowing direct link access, make products visible but non-purchasable, or completely remove products from view including direct links.
Setup is straightforward—just activate the module, go to a product’s edit page, and select which countries should see the product. The plugin also lets you customize messages for restricted products and works with WooCommerce Blocks.
For basic needs, the free version from the WordPress plugin directory works well, while advanced users might want the Pro version starting at $29.99 per year for a single site license with additional premium features.
Conclusion
If you want to restrict access to your product based on the customer’s country, the WooCommerce extension is usually the best option. You can also look at similar plugins that are all designed to complete the same task in helping you sell goods to the right people, and to avoid refunds or regulations if the products you sell are not allowed in their countries.
