Shipping Rules for WooCommerce

Not every delivery method suits every basket. A courier who will not take 30kg should not be offered one, and something fragile enough to need collecting should not be sent by the cheapest van you have.

Shipping Rules decides which delivery methods a customer is offered, based on what they are actually buying. You write the rules in plain terms: hide express delivery when the basket weighs more than 30kg; offer local pickup and nothing else when there is a fragile item in it; take flat rate off small orders and leave the customer with collection.

Each rule names the delivery methods it acts on and the conditions that bring it into play — basket total, weight, number of items, or shipping class — and you decide whether every condition has to be true or just one of them. Rules are applied in the order you put them in.

If your rules leave an order with no way to be delivered at all, the customer is told on the cart and at checkout in wording you write, and the order is stopped rather than taken and argued about afterwards. A basket held up by two rules is told about both.

Free decides whether a delivery method is offered. Pro decides when, to whom, and at what price. Conditions extend to the products and categories in the basket, how bulky it is, and where it is going, down to a postcode pattern. Rules can run only between two dates, only on chosen days, or only between two times of day, so a Christmas cutoff stops on its own and "order by 2pm for next day" is a setting rather than a promise on a banner. They can be aimed at guests, at first orders, at customers who have spent a minimum with you, or at named accounts. And instead of hiding a method, a rule can add to or take off the charge, rename it, or put it at the top and preselect it.

A tester on the settings screen takes a basket you type in and shows which rules fire and exactly what the customer would be offered, so you find the baskets your rules leave with nothing before a customer does.

It works on the delivery methods you already offer in WooCommerce rather than adding new ones, and a rule pointing at a method you have since deleted is flagged on the settings screen instead of being quietly dropped.

The free version is permanent. It does not expire, needs no licence key, and never contacts Plugin City. Pro is the complete plugin — everything in Free plus the above — and it installs in place of the free version, keeping every rule you have already written.