Barn2Media WooCommerce Discontinued Products 1.2.5

The Barn2 Media WooCommerce Discontinued Products plugin is a premium extension designed to solve a common problem for e-commerce stores: how to retire products permanently without hurting SEO or confusing customers.1

Standard WooCommerce only offers "In Stock," "Out of Stock," or "On Backorder," but these statuses don't correctly represent a product that will never be restocked.2

This plugin adds a dedicated, formal process for managing end-of-life (EOL) products.3

🌟 Key Features and Benefits

Feature

Description

Strategic Benefit

Dedicated Stock Status

Adds a new, separate stock status called "Discontinued" to the WooCommerce product data box.

Accurate Reporting: Keeps discontinued products separate from currently available or temporarily out-of-stock inventory for cleaner reports.

SEO Protection

Discontinued product pages can be kept visible to search engines (and existing customer links) but are removed from your main shop and category pages.

Retains SEO Value: You don't lose the link authority and ranking position the page has earned, preventing 404 errors.

Customer Clarity

Automatically removes the "Add to Cart" button and replaces it with a custom notification message on the single product page.

Reduces Customer Frustration: Clearly communicates the product is unavailable and will not return, managing expectations.

Alternative Product Suggestions

Allows the store manager to easily choose and display one or more active products (upsells/cross-sells) as alternatives on the discontinued product page.

Sales Recovery: Redirects traffic and potential purchases to currently available items, minimizing lost revenue.

Custom Messaging

Set global text to display for all discontinued products, or override it with unique text on a per-product basis.

Flexible Communication: Allows for different messages (e.g., "See the new model" vs. "This product is permanently retired").

Visibility Control

Offers options to hide discontinued products from the main shop, category archives, and on-site search results, while leaving the direct product page link active for search engines.

Clean Catalog: Keeps your active product listings clean and focused on purchasable inventory.

Variation Support

Allows you to mark specific variations of a variable product as discontinued, while leaving other variations available for purchase.

Granular Control: Essential for products with slight version changes or limited-run colors/sizes.

In summary, the Barn2 Media WooCommerce Discontinued Products plugin provides a clean, SEO-friendly, and customer-focused solution for managing end-of-life products, making it an essential tool for mature e-commerce stores.