Clearance category

Overview

The clearance category gives your discounted, short-dated products a home on the storefront. The plugin keeps an ordinary WooCommerce product category in sync with the products that automatic discounts are currently reducing: a product joins the category when its discount starts and leaves it again when the discount ends.

Because it is a normal category, you can use it anywhere WooCommerce categories work — a menu link, a page-builder products widget, a category block, or the [edfw_clearance_products] shortcode.

Turning it on

1. Make sure automatic discounts are enabled under Products → Expirations → Settings → Discounts — the clearance category follows those discounts.
2. On the same screen, tick Enable clearance — “Add discounted products to a clearance category”.
3. Choose the Category: use an existing category, or let the plugin create one called “Clearance”.
4. Save.

You can rename the category at any time — the plugin follows the category itself, not its name.

What the plugin does and doesn’t touch

• Products are added and removed only because of an expiry discount. A product you put in the category yourself is never removed by the plugin.
• Nothing else about the product changes — its other categories, prices and stock stay as they are.
• If the Pro license lapses, the category simply stops being updated; the products already in it stay until you tidy up.

Tips

• Add the category to your main menu as “Deals” or “Last chance” — it empties itself as stock sells, so it never shows stale offers.
• Combine it with the Expiring soon badge on the Discounts screen so shoppers see the reason for the price.