YITH WooCommerce Catalog Mode
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About
YITH WooCommerce Catalog Mode, a plugin for disabling sales in your e-commerce and turn it into an e-commerce into an online catalogue.
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What It Does
YITH WooCommerce Catalog Mode transforms a standard WooCommerce shop into a product catalogue by hiding prices, disabling the cart, and removing checkout functionality. Administrators can selectively switch the catalogue treatment on or off per product, per category, or for specific user roles, so logged-in wholesale buyers can still see pricing while visitors only see the display. It is essentially a switch for turning off the commerce side of WooCommerce without dismantling the catalogue infrastructure already built on it.
Who It's For
This plugin is a strong fit for shops that need to display a WooCommerce-powered product catalogue without accepting orders online, such as wholesale showrooms, B2B suppliers, trade show displays, automotive dealerships, real estate listings, and luxury or fashion brand lookbooks. It also suits manufacturing or designer portfolios where the WooCommerce product data is already in place and only the transactional layer needs to be disabled. Role-based exemptions make it especially useful when some users (for example, registered dealers) should still see prices and ordering options.
Who Should Skip It
If you actually want to sell online, this plugin is the wrong tool, since its core job is to disable sales. Sites that need only a light tweak (for example, hiding price on one product) can usually do that with a small snippet or a simpler free add-on rather than a dedicated 60,000-install catalogue plugin.
The Bottom Line
YITH WooCommerce Catalog Mode is a focused, well-maintained plugin that does exactly one thing, turning WooCommerce into a catalogue, and it does it with clean role-based controls. The catch is a thin support record (0 tracked threads) and only a middling 72/100 rating, so plan to rely on the documentation rather than the help desk. Overall Quality Score of 79.7/100 makes it a reasonable, if not outstanding, pick for catalogue-first stores.
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