Free shipping is a great way to encourage customers to spend more. For example, offer free shipping on orders over $100. Please see our Shipping Zones guide and create zones to begin using. Free Shipping – WooCommerce Docs To offer the free shipping method it must be added to a Shipping Zone and you can add it to […]
In some of our premium shipping methods — such as USPS, UPS, and FedEx — the boxes used to ship are automatically calculated based on dimensions of items in the customer’s cart. This page details how shipping calculators work and ways you can ensure proper setup and calculation. Product Dimensions vs. Shipping Dimensions The most important part of all calculators is […]
If shipping costs provided by your WooCommerce installation are higher or lower than what you would expect, we recommend you to enable the debug mode within the shipping plugin settings section that you are using. Once this option is enabled, add a product to cart and in most cases you will see on the cart […]
Selling physical products? You will need to ship them! To set up shipping in WooCommerce, you first set up shipping zones, then add methods to those zones, and lastly, rates to your methods. You can create as many zones as you like, and add multiple methods and rates to each zone. Shipping Zones A Shipping Zone is a geographical area to which you […]
Shipping classes can be used to group products of similar type and used by some shipping methods, such as Flat Rate Shipping, to provide different rates to different classes of product. For example, with shipping classes and Flat Rate Shipping, it’s possible to create different flat rate costs for different product types, like bulky items and small items. […]
In WooCommerce 2.6 we introduced Shipping Zones that replace shipping options previously in core. If you’re using any of the previous (called ‘legacy’) shipping methods, they will continue to function. But we recommend moving to Shipping Zones as soon as possible because legacy methods will be removed in future releases. Shipping Zones allows options to be used multiple times, […]
Flat Rate Shipping is a free shipping method in WooCommerce that allows you define a standard rate per item, per shipping class or per order. Flat Rate Shipping works with Product Shipping Classes, adding more power and flexibility. Setup and Configuration To use this method it must be added to a Shipping Zone. 1/ Go to: WooCommerce > Settings > […]
In WooCommerce and its shipping extensions, there isn’t an easy way to offer insurance for the goods you are shipping. Include in product price One option is to include the insurance cost in the price of your products. This, however, has the downside that it gives the customer a wrong impression of the actual cost of […]
