By WebAwareMinimum Age for WooCommerce Plugin
Restrict purchase through the WooCommerce checkout by age
Add a checkout question for the customer’s date of birth, and enforce a minimum age. The customer cannot checkout if their given date of birth means they are younger than the minimum age.
Requirements
- WooCommerce 3.0 or greater
- PHP 5.6 or greater
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Privacy
The customer’s date of birth is recorded, so that transactions can be audited for compliance with minimum age legislation. The customer’s date of birth is transmitted in order confirmation and notification emails. This information is not shared with any other parties.
Screenshots
WooCommerce settings
The birth date question in the checkout, showing an error message
FAQ
The default minimum age is 18. You can change it the WooCommerce settings:
WooCommerce > Settings > Minimum Age > Minimum age
The default order of the birth date fields is day, month, year. You can choose a different layout in the settings:
WooCommerce > Settings > Minimum Age > Date layout
There is a filter hook minimum_age_woo_show_question that allows developers to hide the date of birth question if it isn’t required, e.g. only show for products in certain categories. It accepts a single boolean parameter, and returns a boolean: true to show the question, otherwise false.
Changelog
The full changelog can be found on GitHub. Recent entries:
1.1.0
Released 2023-10-31
- fixed: support for WooCommerce HPOS (high performance order storage)
- added: filter hook
minimum_age_woo_show_questionallowing hookers to conditionally suppress the age question - changed: marked as tested up to WooCommerce 8.2