WooCommerce
Country Restriction
Plugin

Country Based Restrictions PRO is a WooCommerce plugin that lets you control which products, categories, and payment methods are available based on the customer's country. You can restrict individual products, apply bulk rules by category, tag, attribute or shipping class, and block entire countries from your store globally.

Yes. The bulk restriction feature lets you apply country rules across a whole product category, tag, attribute, or shipping class in one step — without editing each product individually.

Yes. You can set country restrictions on individual product variations as well as the parent product.

Yes. You can choose whether restrictions are applied based on the billing address or the shipping address — the setting is configurable from the plugin's general settings.

It can, and it's worth setting up correctly before you go live. Page caching works by serving one saved copy of a page to every visitor. If that copy is served before WooCommerce runs its geolocation check, every visitor sees the same version of your catalog regardless of where they are — and your country rules appear not to work. The fix is built into WooCommerce. Go to WooCommerce > Settings > General > Default customer location and choose "Geolocate (with page caching support)". WooCommerce then appends a country parameter to page URLs so your cache stores a separate copy per country, and CBR sees the right country every time. If you use a CDN such as Cloudflare, also make sure it isn't stripping that parameter or caching the page above WordPress. The same applies to WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache, LiteSpeed, SiteGround Optimizer and WP Fastest Cache — each needs the geolocation parameter and cookies excluded from the cache key. Full per-plugin setup steps are in the documentation, and if your host's caching layer is doing something unusual, priority support will work through it with you.

Geolocation identifies the country a request appears to come from, so a customer connecting through a VPN will be treated as being in the VPN's country. No IP-based restriction system can prevent this. If you need a stronger guarantee for regulatory reasons, combine country restrictions with billing-address validation at checkout.

CBR PRO includes an admin debug mode: preview your own store exactly as a visitor from any country would see it, without a VPN and without touching a live order. Set your rules, switch the preview country, and check each product behaves the way you intended — hidden, visible but unavailable, or blocked at checkout. When you're happy, turn debug mode off. This matters most on stores with legal or licensing restrictions, where a rule that silently fails is far more expensive than one that never shipped.

Yes. You can specify individual user accounts that are exempt from all country restrictions — useful for admins, wholesale customers, or internal test accounts.

Yes. Country-based restrictions are enforced on both the classic WooCommerce checkout and the block-based (Gutenberg) checkout.

Yes. Country Based Restrictions PRO is fully compatible with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS).

No. Country detection uses WooCommerce's own MaxMind GeoLite2 database, which runs locally on your server — there's no external API call on page load. Restriction rules are applied as part of the standard product query rather than as an extra lookup per product. With page caching configured as described above, the practical overhead on a cached page is nil.

Install and activate Country Based Restrictions PRO — the free plugin deactivates automatically, and everything you've already set up stays exactly as it is. Your restriction rules, country settings and custom messages all carry across. There is nothing to migrate and nothing to set up again.

Everything, with no exclusions. If CBR Pro isn't right for your store, request a refund from your Orders page at https://www.zorem.com/my-account/orders/ within 14 days of purchase and we'll refund you in full.

No. Each licence activates on a single site, and staging and development installs count as separate sites. If you build on a staging copy before pushing live, choose the 5 Sites licence.

Your plugin keeps working and no data is lost — nothing switches off. What stops is plugin updates and priority support.

Your licence renews at the same price you paid — we never raise it at renewal. The 1 year plan is $119 and renews at $119 a year. The 2 year plan is $190 and renews at $190 every two years, which works out at $95 a year. The 20% saving on the 2 year plan applies to every renewal, not just your first term, so it stays at that price for as long as you keep the licence.

Yes. Your licence renews each year so you keep receiving updates and support. We email you 7 days before each renewal, and you can cancel any time from your account.

Yes, as often as you need. Deactivate the licence on the old site from your account, then activate it on the new one — there's no limit on how many times you can move it.