When first configuring shipping rates in WooCommerce and performing tests you may run into unexpected results at the cart/checkout when you’ve made a change. The shipping cache in WooCommerce stores the shipping rates automatically when they’re calculated the first time. The cached shipping rates are great for production sites, but while still configuring your site it can …
Supercharge Your Shipping Cost Configuration Adding the WAS Advanced Pricing extension will provide you with a *TON* of powerful functionality to configure the shipping cost for your Advanced Shipping rates. Setup cost per Product, Category, Shipping class and Weight. Cost per Weight In the ‘Cost per weight’ section you can configure a minimum and …
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You may’ve encountered this suddenly while working on your site; the “Shipping” section is not showing up on the cart / checkout pages. This is likely not an big issue and just a setting that is not configured correctly on your WooCommerce site. Why is the Shipping Section Missing? The reason why the shipping section …
Have you ever met anyone who doesn’t like free shipping? No? Neither have I! Offering free shipping on your store is a great selling point and converts visitors to customers. Having a minimum free shipping threshold is proven to be one of the most effective ways to increase the average order value of customers. Set …
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Today I released a new simple plugin to add a little bit of extra functionality to WooCommerce. Having the ability to duplicate shipping zones can be very handy when configuring many shipping zones/rates with the same structure. I initially created this for myself when needing to configure a setup with many different shipping zones/rates with …
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Having free shipping available for your store is a great way to reduce friction and minimize the checkout abandonment rate. It makes sense to remove other shipping rates such as paid options when a free option is available. In other scenarios offering additional rates such as local pickup and premium/expedited rates is beneficial for the …
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Offering world wide shipping is great of course, but not every product is allowed to ship world wide or maybe even nationally without a long process of paperwork (or even at all). Products like live stock, plants, alcoholics, medicins, weapons of any kind, hazardous materials etc. Even if you’re just unable to ship to certain …
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One thing I hear a lot from people who are new to WooCommerce are the issues they’re having configuring and understanding how the shipping options work. With this blog post I hope to give you some helpful information and tips around the topic of shipping zones and configuring shipping options in general. The topics discussed in …
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WooCommerce allows anyone to sort their shipping rates through the Shipping Zones settings. Unfortunately its not always possible to all the shipping rates as some may not be available directly from within the shipping zones. For example, multiple shipping rates from live carrier quotes can be retrieved through an API, and usually are setup with …
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When you sell big products that require special freight shipping but also smaller products it may be beneficial for you and your customers to offer separate shipping for those products. Freight shipping can take longer and be more expensive, and naturally you want to keep cost as low as possible for your customers. Splitting the …
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