Flat Rate Shipping does not have additional options segment

“The long term goal is to have multiple flat rates per store.”

Why not get that going first BEFORE you remove things. You’ve made a hell of a mess with this change.

It was less confusing before than it is now trying to work with coding of hooks and filters trying to get that functionality back.

I get it that it wasn’t “flat”. So, rename it.

jpveix glad you figured it out.

petriknz no…there is no mess. If someone was using the setting before the upgrade, the setting will still be shown. New users technically should not even know those options existed previously. Renaming it does not solve the issues long or short term.

” New users technically should not even know those options existed previously.”

Nice to know. But you’re missing the point entirely. What about taking care of your existing users?

It’s your existing users you’re alienating. I use those settings when setting up shipping for new websites for clients. Now I have to jump through a lot of hoops to get it to work as it did.

The replacements that you’re suggesting are coming should have been in place before you removed what was existing.

petriknz as I stated existing users of the option keep the field. It’s only disabled if not in use.

Hey Mike,

I was following your post on : https://woocommerce.wordpress.com/2015/06/16/simplifying-flat-rate-shipping-in-wc-2-4/

Appreciate your information and kind assistance :).

I have gotten my additional shipping rates/options up and running thanks to you!

My question is : I have Free Shipping for orders more than $100 setup. But the issue is on the front-end checkout page, the other options still show up, together with the Free Shipping Option. I was thinking if it’s possible to automatically hide the other options when the purchases are above $100 so it’s not so confusing for my customers.

Any idea how to implement that? Thanks in advance!

Hey Mike,
Regarding this post of yours – https://woocommerce.wordpress.com/2015/06/16/simplifying-flat-rate-shipping-in-wc-2-4/

What are the extra parameters that should be included for the countries exclude part?
Thanks.

it’s crazy additional rates has gone.

It makes it so difficult now to simply setup a few rates for delivery based on speed, such as; normal delivery (4-7 day), quick delivery (2-4 day) and next day delivery.

All at flat rates per entire order, each of the three options with their own price.

Anyone know how to do this now?

Hello, I am trying to get the previously mentioned hook to work but am not having any luck. I tried pasting it in my functions.php and also in enfold-functions.php (I am using the Enfold theme) but neither have worked. Does anyone have any advice how to get an additional flat rate shipping option? I need to flat rates for Canada, the U.S. and international. Thanks!

And if no one can help, does anyone know which older version had more flat rate shipping options? Can I just downgrade to that version to get the options that I require?

The add_filter worked great. I needed a flat rate for 2nd day, next day, etc. I don’t know why this was taken away without another option. I couldn’t find a table rate plugin that would let me do this.

No I think woocommerce is missing the point :-/.

There was an ‘additional rates’ function which has been removed.

Most woocommerce users want to add additional ‘flat rates’. For example:

Standard shipping (flat rate 1)
Express 2 shipping (flat rate 2)
Next day delivery (flat rate 3).

I can’t see any way to add these now that the ‘additional rates’ rates box has been removed from flat rate. It seems woocommerce has missed an entire shipping class and added it to the table extension which they charge $200 for!

Less people I would imagine want to run shipping by weight and class (which has been added to woocommerce).

Please tell me I’m missing something.

they’re right. Add the below to your functions.php and it’ll bring back the additional rates box they’re trying to charge everyone for – so you can add again the very basic of all shipping rates (several flat rates)

add_filter( ‘woocommerce_enable_deprecated_additional_flat_rates’, ‘__return_true’ );

This just seems like very poor planning. Once again wootheme pulls out the rug from users.

Tell me this if “old” way was confusing, and pipes are not friendly, how would I go about adding new shipping options?

Very much so woothemes is missing the point! wootheme doesn’t offer any solutions to store owners on how to quickly add new shipping options other than to say the old easy and quick way was confusing and not friendly and instead feigns ignorance on alienating existing users.

Its great that in the future you want to offer multiple flat rate options, but how about get that in place before you take a tried and true method away! Just having to figure out what happened to these features costs time and resources. woothemes is oblivious!

Help Please.
Can I setup more than 1 shipping rate for the same product and then have a second product with 2 different shipping rates?

Product 1 – Mulch

3.99 cubic yards or less = $50.00 (shipping)
4.00 cubic yards and more = Free

Product 2 – Topsoil
Shipping rates are different from Product 1.

15.99 cubic yards or less = $20.00 (shipping)
16.00 cubic yards and more = $16.00 (shipping)

How do I go about setting up the products and shipping rates so they will display the correct shipping rate for a particular product and volume?