WooCommerce guide
Current warranty display vs historical order evidence in WooCommerce
Displaying the right warranty information today and retaining the information that applied to a past order are different jobs.
If you update a product's producer name, model identifier, GARAN duration, language setting, or display configuration, the question is not only “what do customers see now?” It can also become “what information did this order use when it was placed?”
Current display: useful for the live customer journey
EU Warranty Ready Free 1.5.0 displays current legal-notice and eligible GARAN information from the current product or variation configuration. It can render that current information on product pages, classic checkout, Checkout Blocks, and customer HTML/plain-text emails where enabled.
That makes Free a practical foundation when your immediate need is clear, current customer-facing information. Its readiness view can help you review the notice and optional GARAN configuration across the catalog.
Free deliberately does not write warranty snapshots, hashes, or historical evidence to WooCommerce order metadata. A later catalog or configuration change therefore belongs to the current-display model; it is not represented as a preserved order-specific evidence record by Free.
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Historical order evidence: a record for new orders
EU Warranty Ready Pro 1.3.1 adds a separate local historical-evidence model for new classic and Checkout Block orders. It captures a checkout candidate and promotes it after an accepted transaction to final warranty evidence. Within the application's behavior, later lifecycle activity does not rebuild or overwrite final evidence.
The stored information includes the selected notice language, plugin version, enabled locations, product-at-purchase fields, and configured GARAN values used at checkout. Customer email re-sends, the order-received page, My Account, admin, and the integration API use those stored historical values rather than reading current product, settings, or locale data.
This is a product feature for continuity of WooCommerce warranty information. It is not a claim that an evidence record is tamper-proof, certified, notarized, legally conclusive, or a substitute for your backup, retention, access-control, and legal obligations.
Which model fits the question you are asking?
| If your question is… | The relevant model |
|---|---|
| “What does a shopper see on this product today?” | Current display in Free 1.5.0. |
| “Can we see whether the current catalog has missing notice/GARAN configuration?” | Free 1.5.0 readiness guidance and catalog overview. |
| “What language and configured warranty values did a new order after an accepted transaction use?” | Historical evidence in Pro 1.3.1. |
| “Can this plugin decide whether our legal setup is sufficient?” | Neither. Obtain qualified legal advice for that question. |
A measured next step
Start with Free if the requirement is current storefront, checkout, and customer-email display. Explore Pro if historical order continuity is the specific operational need. The Pro link below uses the first-party website source path; its count is a Pro-intent signal, not a completed sale.
Legal context
The legal-guarantee notice and GARAN label are regulated presentation materials, but the choice between current display and historical evidence is a product and operations decision. The official EU source distinguishes the legal-guarantee notice from the voluntary producer durability-guarantee label; this page does not make a legal conclusion about record keeping or a store's compliance.