Change ‘Shipping’ to ‘Delivery’

The Say What? plugin can do this. Use woocommerce for the text domain when setting up a string change. It should not be necessary to edit templates or code.

Hi @lewiscornwell

We haven’t heard back from you in a while, so I’m going to mark this as resolved – if you have any further questions, you can start a new thread.

@dougaitken

Sorry to re-open someone else’s thread but I have the exact same issue.

How do I change “shipping” to “delivery” throughout the cart & checkout and then onto the WooCommerce emails? Its just shipping is more an American expression and my British clients much prefer delivery.

Is there a single constant or a database field that I can change once and the update will ripple through?

This would make a great feature request.

Thanks in advance.

Is anyone supporting WooCommerce?

Try this function:

add_filter( 'woocommerce_shipping_package_name', 'custom_shipping_package_name' );
function custom_shipping_package_name( $name ) {
  return 'Delivery';
}

@lorro

Thanks for replying

That worked for the cart and the checkout pages, but not the email.

Any ideas?

Any word from WooCommerce?

Thanks

That’s translatable text so you can use the Say What? plugin.

Note that the string to be translated is
Shipping:
the colon is a necessary part of the Original string.

@lorro

Thank you very much!

The plugin Say What? worked perfectly.

This is what I entered: (See Screenshot1)

This plugin changed the string “Shipping:” to “Delivery:” in the email that gets sent out by WooCommerce for a “New Order”.

The result: (See Screenshot2)

N.B. As you said, be sure to include the colon on the end of Shipping: otherwise it doesn’t work!

Thankfully this change also rippled through to the PDF invoice that I attached to the email using the WooCommerce PDF Invoices & Packing Slips plugin.

So that’s two fixes in one!

Thank you.

@lorro

BTW

Your code above gave a fatal error!

I dug around on the net and found these two snippets of code here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31017626/how-to-change-woocommerce-text-shipping-in-checkout

Snippet #1
To change “Shipping” to “Delivery” on the Cart and Checkout Pages:

add_filter( 'woocommerce_shipping_package_name' , 'woocommerce_replace_text_shipping_to_delivery', 10, 3);

/**
 * 
 * Function to replace shipping text to delivery text
 * 
 * @param $package_name
 * @param $i
 * @param $package
 *
 * @return string
 */
function woocommerce_replace_text_shipping_to_delivery($package_name, $i, $package){
    return sprintf( _nx( 'Delivery', 'Delivery %d', ( $i + 1 ), 'shipping packages', 'put-here-you-domain-i18n' ), ( $i + 1 ) );
}

Snippet #2
To change “Shipping” to “Delivery” on the Order-Received page e.g.
https://example.com/checkout/order-received

/*
 *  Change the string "Shipping" to "Delivery" on Order Received page.
 */
add_filter('gettext', 'translate_reply');
add_filter('ngettext', 'translate_reply');

function translate_reply($translated) {
$translated = str_ireplace('Shipping', 'Delivery', $translated);
return $translated;
}

I must say needing 2 pieces of code and a plugin to change Shipping to Delivery is either incompetence on my behalf or is it that WooCommerce is deliberately designed in such a way as to make life as difficult as possible for the average developer?

Hi

Thank you very much for this train, it helped me a lot, the function works but I have a problem with the insertion of the word – Delivery is in my language Po?tovné.

When I add this does not work with diacritics. put in page this Po?tovn?

I send link to print screen

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lysMmKlJuEg7Tihqh1AVBhgjLavQn-OH/view?usp=sharing

Thank so much. Thanks