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Product Expiry for WooCommerce gives every product and variation in your store an expiry date. When the date hits, the plugin can flip the product to out-of-stock, move it to draft, or fire an email notification. No manual cleanup, no forgotten sale items haunting your catalog.
Perfect for stores selling perishable goods, time-limited offers, seasonal inventory, digital licenses, event tickets, or anything with a shelf life.
🔗 Quick Links
Documentation · Live Details · Upgrade to Pro
🛠️ Typical Use Cases
- Food, cosmetics, supplements, and other perishable goods that auto-disappear after their sell-by date
- Limited-time sales and flash offers : pair with the Pro countdown timer for real urgency
- Seasonal products (holiday, summer lines) that should vanish off-season
- Digital licenses, event tickets, and subscription codes with a fixed validity window
- Rental listings, classifieds, and marketplace-style stores where items expire
🔑 Free Features
- Set an expiry date for any WooCommerce product or variation
- Automatically mark expired products as Out of Stock or Draft
- Email notifications to store admins when a product expires
- Show or hide the expiry date on single product and shop pages, with customizable markup
- Display expiry info in order details (frontend, admin, and order emails)
- Sort products in the admin list by expiry date
- Quick edit and bulk edit expiry dates from the product list
- Custom notification recipients (comma-separated emails)
- WPML-compatible expiry markup
- Works with both simple and variable products
⭐ Pro Features
Upgrade to Product Expiry Pro for everything above, plus:
- ⏱ Live Countdown Timer on product pages : day / hour / minute / second, with three display styles (blocks, badge, minimal) and automatic green amber red urgency colouring
- 📊 CSV Bulk Tools : export every product and variation with expiry data, edit in Excel, re-import to update dates, times, notes and on-expiry actions across thousands of products at once
- 🕐 Exact expiry time (HH:MM), not just the date
- 📧 Pre-expiry reminder emails : notify admins X days before a product expires
- ✉️ Fully customizable email subject and body
- 📋 Premium dashboard to manage every expiring product from one screen
- 🔄 Inline plugin updates directly from your WordPress admin
💚 Built Right
- Works with any well-coded WooCommerce theme : no template overrides needed
- Translation-ready; WPML and Polylang supported
- Clean uninstall : no orphaned options or cron jobs
- Lightweight: no external API calls on frontend, no tracking
Screenshots
Provide Expiry Date Single Product Page Filter by Expiry Dates Settings Expire date in order emails
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- Upload the plugin files to the
/wp-content/plugins/directory or install through the WordPress plugin dashboard. - Activate the plugin.
- Edit a product in WooCommerce, and you’ll see a new “Product Expiry” panel.
- Set your desired expiry date and choose the action on expiry (e.g., draft or out-of-stock).
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Can I set expiry dates for individual variations?
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Yes, the plugin supports setting expiration dates at the variation level.
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What happens when a product expires?
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Depending on your settings, it will either be moved to Draft status or marked as Out of Stock automatically.
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Can I display the expiry date on the product page?
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Yes. You can choose to show or hide the expiry date on the front end and even control where it appears and how it looks.
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Will I be notified when a product expires?
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Yes, the plugin can send an email notification when a product expires. You can also specify a custom recipient email address.
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Can I edit expiry dates in bulk?
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Yes. You can bulk-edit or quick-edit expiry dates from the product listing page in your admin dashboard.
Reviews
መስከረም 26, 2025
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.
መስከረም 22, 2025
It’s a very good plugin, we can use it to provide important information to customers.
ታህሳስ 12, 2023
2 replies
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
ሚያዝያ 10, 2023
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?
መጋቢት 4, 2023
2 replies
Although I still need some help with setting out of stock after the expire-day.
ጥር 30, 2023
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!
Contributors & Developers
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Changelog
3.2
- Bug Fixed: Variable products not displaying expiry note when display is outside of form
- Notice: POT Updated
3.1
- Feature Added: Enhanced Hook Selection UI! You can now choose display positions for Single Product and Archive pages via a user-friendly dropdown
- Feature Added: Added support for “Custom Hooks.” If your theme uses non-standard hooks, you can still enter them manually.
- Feature Added: Modernized Admin experience with SweetAlert2 integration for smoother, real-time settings saving.
- Feature Added: Optimized AJAX saving logic to provide better feedback when “no changes” are detected.
- Bug Fixed: Email notification is not working when no action is selected.
3.0
- Feature Added: New UI with more control
- Feature Added: Email Subject and Markup options
- Bug Fixed: Expiry date for variations does not show in order summary
2.9
- Bug Fixed: WPML breaks %date% placeholder in emails and frontend
2.8
- Bug Fixed: Date is not respecting the site’s timezone settings. (credits: @akukameda)
2.7
- Feature Added: Sorting by expiry date
- Feature Added: 6 Months filter
- Feature Added: Filter variable products
- Feature Added: Variable products expiry date in admin column
- Feature Added: Support with WooCommerce 9.8.5
- Bug Fixed: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function get_meta()
- Bug Fixed: Date is not displaying for variable products
2.6
- Vulnerability Fixed: issue identified by Wordfence team is fixed
2.5
- Bug Fixed: Cron event does not get cleared when date is deleted
2.4
- Feature Added: Provide custom expiry note to display
- Feature Added: Shortcode added [expiry_date before=”” after=””]
- Bug Fixed: Quick edit date is always empty
2.3
- Feature Added: Variations support
- Feature Added: WPML Support
- Feature Added: Make products out of stock
- Feature Added: Quick settings button
2.2
- Feature Added: Product becomes draft when the date pass (+1 Day)
- Feature Added: Option to display date in order details (Admin + Front)
2.1
- Feature Added: Option to display expiry date in order emails
- Bug Fixed: Display on frontend not saving settings
2.0
- Feature Added: Admin filtering by expiry status
- Feature Added: Custom text markup
- Feature Added: Custom date format
- Feature Added: Email notification on expiry
1.5
- Feature Added: Russian Translation Added
1.4
- Feature Added: Bulk edit expiration date
- Feature Added: Admin column added to display dates
- Notice: POT updated
1.3
- Bug Fixed: Warning Use of undefined constant
1.2
- Ability to enable/disable display of expire date on the product page
- POT file updated
1.1
- Expiry date added in the single product page
1.0
- Initial Release