How to make "calculate shipping" work?

Hi Scott,

The shipping prices will show in the cart when the box is checked for “Enable the shipping calculator on the cart page” as long as the shipping prices have been added in the woocommerce settings and also selected on the product.

You’ll have to add your shipping rates and classes under the “shipping” tab via Woocommerce Settings.

Then on each individual product, you’ll have to select the shipping class. When people want to buy that item, the correct shipping class/rate will pull for that item on the cart page.

If your item is something like, digital downloads, and you don’t need a shipping rate, than enabling the box won’t serve any purpose.

I hope this helps!

I have added shipping rates and classes. But everything in WC is done by flat rate.

If you do it by zip code (in “Calculate Shipping”), there needs to be some postal rates entered somewhere because some zip codes cost more to mail to than others, depending on the type of mail.

I just don’t see where to tell WC what to charge for shipping based on the zip code entered at the cart page “Calculate Shipping” link.

What am I missing?

Thanks!

Have you checked out the “Local delivery” option, this has a field to enable applicable zip codes to be entered.

It does have a place for zip code, but not a way to enter a different cost for different zips. This seems pretty much for defining what local zips you will deliver to for your given flat rate.

If you want more than one zip zone, then I’m pretty sure the plain WooCommerce won’t do it, so you would need either some tricky custom code or a plugin. Some people use Table Rate Shipping which looks like it will do this job. There may be other suitable plugins.

Yes, I have learned this the long way. It was misleading to have the ability to enter a zip in the “calculate Shipping” and have it do nothing.

I see that there are many plugins. I found a free one called Table Rate Shipping which is free, but you must create the tables of zips/zone yourself, no API.

And there is the one from Woothemes, but it’s $199.00. Do you know the difference between that one and the one you mentioned above?

The codecanyon/envato one is $21. Sorry, I’ve not used the free, $21 or ￡199 products, all with the same name, so you’d have to study the features’ lists. Try the free one first! You can get a zips list here for not much.