Product Expiry for WooCommerce

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55 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 13 listed. 42 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 1 of its tags isn't in the top 24 for their own search.

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Crossed into this band 52 days ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just under 2K.

1. ★★★★★ Tanzir

   6mo ago

   This is an excellent tool for anyone managing perishable stock or time-limited offers in WooCommerce. The automation for switching products to draft or out-of-stock saves a massive amount of manual work. This topic was modified 2 months, 1 week ago by Tanzir.

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2. ★★★★★ mmelt

   1.1y ago

   Nothing works as expected. There seem to be weird caching issues, there isn’t any option to set an expiration time that I have been able to find, very little explanation for the setting fields (and they are not intuitive), the product-level settings don’t seem to take at all for variable products (other than the message, which you cannot edit the styling and it gets lost in all of the other text on the page – nothing about it stands out), the way the settings are edited for the individual variations is different than that of the full product settings, and there’s no indication of hierarchy for those settings (example, if different expiration information is set at product and variation levels, there is no way to know which the system will recognize as priority).I have been testing the plugin over the last two days to see if it would work for a client and trying to test to figure out how the plugin determined the actual moment of expiration (since, as I mentioned above, there is no option to set a time, contrary to what is claimed in the description) – no indication as to whether it be at 11:59pm on the date set as the expiration date, 12am the next day, or some arbitrary point in time. And there is no indication as to how it was determining/calculating date and time – the website’s timezone settings or something else? As I was testing and changing dates, it seemed to confuse the plugin and now it won’t update at all. It keeps saying out of stock even though I have tried updating it with today’s date and tomorrow’s. Nothing seems to work. Frustrating plugin that seems to have more bugs than I want to deal with – not trustworthy in functionality enough to add to my clients’ sites. What I tried while troubleshooting: Cleared browser cache Cleared site cache Closed product browser tab completely and re-opened Removed all product-level settings and set only variation None of these seemed to resolve the situation. Just glad it was free.

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3. ★★★★★ szanyolaszlo

   1.1y ago

   It’s a very good plugin, we can use it to provide important information to customers.

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4. ★★★★★ defjam2oo1

   2.9y ago

   Very good plugin. I would think it would be good if you could enter multiple data per product. for example product x 01/01/23 40 pieces and another 20 pieces with date 03/01/23 Thanks

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5. ★★★★★ baniaweb

   3.6y ago

   HelloIs there a way to send an email to buyers of a product when it’s close to expiration? Or if not, can you add this item in the next update?

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6. ★★★★★ Zookeeper

   3.7y ago

   Although I still need some help with setting out of stock after the expire-day.

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7. ★★★★★ fouadabuhattab

   3.8y ago

   Hi, Thanks for useful plugin. I am using it for my shop in Arabic language. I think you can add many features to it that will improve your plugin such as support for other languages like Arabic ( RTL support ) or make it translatable, support determining the expiry date for variations, and define other places to display the expiry date such as description. Thanks again for your great work!

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8. ★★★★★ Elena Syvor

   3.8y ago

   Hi, Thanks for useful plugin. I am using it for my shop teamylove.ru Only problem I can see only This Month Expiring products. But I’d like to see the expiring dates in advance to be able to give some extra discount for them in advance. How can I see the list of all expiring dates? Also I am using Bear Bulk edit plugin but the expiry dates is not showing in it. Are they compatible? Thanks again for your great work!

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 3.3 Feature Added: Expiry action “Reduce stock by amount” Feature Added: Expiry action “Mark as Expired” with a customizable badge Feature Added: Email log of recent plugin emails Feature Added: Filter expiry products within 3.3
2. — Version 3.2 Bug Fixed: Variable products not displaying expiry note when display is outside of the form Notice: POT updated 3.2
3. — Version 3.1 Feature Added: Choose display positions for single product and archive pages from a dropdown Feature Added: Support for custom hooks for themes that use non standard hooks Feature Added: SweetAlert2 integration for smoot 3.1
4. — Version 3.0 Feature Added: New UI with more control Feature Added: Email subject and markup options Bug Fixed: Expiry date for variations not showing in order summary 3.0
5. — Version 2.9 Bug Fixed: WPML breaking the date placeholder in emails and frontend 2.9
6. — Version 2.8 Bug Fixed: Date not respecting the site timezone (credit: @akukameda) 2.8

The 1 disclosed vulnerability is patched in the current version (3.4). Sites still on an older version should update.

1. Patched Medium · 5.4 Product Expiry for WooCommerce <= 2.5 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Plugin Settings Update ↗
   2024-01-02 CVE-2024-0201 Missing Authorization Affects <= 2.5 Patched in 2.6

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-09-12 2K+ → 1K+ down after 286 days in tier
2. 2025-11-30 1K+ → 2K+ up after 782 days in tier
3. 2023-10-10 900+ → 1K+ up after 71 days in tier
4. 2023-07-31 800+ → 900+ up after 62 days in tier
5. 2023-05-30 700+ → 800+ up after 60 days in tier
6. 2023-03-31 600+ → 700+ up after 39 days in tier
7. 2023-02-20 500+ → 600+ up after 34 days in tier
8. 2023-01-17 400+ → 500+ up after 56 days in tier

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Product Expiry for WooCommerce: 1K+ active installs, 4.5★ (13 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-03. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/product-expiry-for-woocommerce