Cart Shipping Calculator for WooCommerce

WooCommerce 10.0 removed the shipping calculator from the Cart block. A new shopper on the block cart now reaches checkout without having been able to see what delivery will cost, which is a long way to go to find out.

This plugin puts a calculator back on the Cart block. A shopper enters their location and sees the delivery options and prices WooCommerce works out for their cart. It does not calculate anything itself: it asks WooCommerce, so what appears is what WooCommerce already has for that cart and that location. Methods that come from other shipping plugins are shown too, as long as the plugin can quote from a country, state, postcode and town alone.

It adds no shipping rates of its own, and it is for the Cart block only. Your zones, methods and prices stay exactly where you set them, and a cart page that still uses the classic shortcode is not touched.

Pro changes how the methods are presented in the calculator, and most of it lives on one Display and wording page. For each shipping method in your zones, and each collection point, you can set the name shoppers see in the calculator, a short description, a line of your own wording for the arrival time (typed by you, not worked out), an icon, the order the options are listed in within each group (delivery and collection), and which one is recommended. The cart totals and checkout keep WooCommerce's own names. A method that costs nothing can read FREE instead of a zero price. If PluginCity Free Shipping Bar is running on the shop, you can switch on Pro's free-shipping line, which shows that plugin's own sentence under the options. The amount and the words are that plugin's. Pro does not change which methods are offered or what they cost.

That page also decides where a shopper with no address of their own starts from: WooCommerce's own default, your shop's country, the billing country, or WooCommerce's own geolocation, which uses the database you set up in WooCommerce and never an outside service. If you only ship to one country you can hide the country box. A first-time visitor who has no location yet is then priced for your shop's country, because the plugin sends it for them.

Postcode only asks a shopper for a postcode and nothing else. It is best for shops whose shipping zones go by postcode. Some countries and some shipping methods also need a city or a state, so the settings screen tells you when you ship to a country where zones often depend on state, such as the United States. It says so more strongly when the shop also holds delivery prices back until the address is complete, because postcode only will then show no rates there.

Styling is a second page of its own. Choose a preset, Default, Minimal, Cards or Compact, and then set anything you like on top of it: the accent, background, border and text colours, the colours of the button, of the selected shipping method and of the Recommended badge, the border radius, the space between shipping methods, the button's style and width, the size of the heading, and whether the methods are plain rows or cards. An option left blank is decided by the preset. Reset styling puts every option on that page back to its starting value and touches nothing else. Styling changes the calculator and nothing else on your cart or checkout.