Uninstall and data retention
What deactivating or deleting each plugin removes, what it never removes, and why.
Deactivating the free plugin
Your WooCommerce prices stay exactly as they are and your store keeps selling. The last written store-currency price is a real WooCommerce price — it does not depend on Price Anchor being active to display. Source prices remain stored on products, so reactivating picks up where you left off.
Deleting the free plugin
Deletion honours the Delete data on uninstall setting, which is off by default:
| Data | Setting off (default) | Setting on |
|---|---|---|
| WooCommerce prices | Kept | Kept |
| Order records and pricing evidence | Kept | Kept |
| Plugin settings and state | Removed | Removed |
| Source prices on products | Kept | Removed |
Order records are never removed under any setting. Optional product meta removal is scoped by post type and bounded, and multisite networks are cleaned per site rather than with one unbounded query.
Deactivating Pro
Removing Pro degrades features, never data and never the ability to sell:
- a Pro-only rounding mode falls back to no rounding — prices stay valid, nothing is unpriced;
- frozen products rejoin normal syncing on the next pass;
- a held rate table stays on disk but nothing reads it; the free plugin applies the next update normally, and reactivating Pro finds the hold still waiting;
- margin floors, the checkout cost stamp and the profit report stop running; prices follow the rate again;
- products on Pro-only source currencies keep their metadata and their last price, and are not repriced until the source returns.
Deleting Pro
Pro’s uninstall intentionally preserves product acquisition-cost metadata and historic order cost evidence. Financial evidence must not disappear because someone removed a plugin. If you genuinely want that data gone you have to remove it deliberately, which is the correct default for anything an accountant might need later.
Licence expiry is not uninstall
An expired licence gates features. It never calls uninstall cleanup, never deletes settings, costs, history or evidence, and never changes a stored price. Renewing restores the saved configuration with nothing to re-enter.
Before you remove anything
If you are moving away from anchored pricing entirely, decide first whether your products should keep their current converted prices — usually yes — and export your source prices if you might come back. With Pro, the CSV export is the cleanest way to take that with you.