Registration for Categories — WooCommerce Plugin

Require registration or login at checkout when the cart contains products from selected categories, while still allowing guest checkout for everything else.

How it works

1. Pick the product categories that should require an account.
2. When a guest's cart contains any product from those categories, WooCommerce requires them to register or log in before placing the order.
3. Carts without any restricted product can still check out as a guest.

Setup

1. Make sure WooCommerce is active.
2. Under WooCommerce → Settings → Accounts & Privacy, enable guest checkout, login during checkout, and account creation during checkout.
3. Open Registration for Categories, tick the categories to restrict, and save.

What changed in 2.0.0

• Fixed the core logic bug. 1.0 allowed guest checkout as soon as any item in the cart was outside the selected categories — so a restricted product slipped through whenever the cart also held an unrestricted one. The check now correctly asks "does the cart contain a restricted product?" and forces registration only for guests.
• Fixed a settings bug. The old paginated list overwrote the saved option with only the current page's checkboxes, wiping selections from other pages. The category list is now a single searchable, scrollable list, so every selection saves together.
• Added get_the_terms() guarding (1.0 could warn/fatal on products with no category), a WooCommerce dependency check, slug validation on save, escaping, i18n and a clean uninstall.

License

GPLv2 or later — see LICENSE.

Author: Finland93