Please suggest a shipping plug-in

  • Resolved suedepflow

    (@suedepflow)


    7 years, 3 months ago

    Hello all,

    I’m in the process of building an small eCommerce website. I have a total of about a dozen products, and this site will never grow to be much larger. I haven’t found a shipping plug-in that meets my needs.

    What I’d like to do is create shipping zones within the US only, comprised of specific states. And then I want to designate a flat rate per product, per zone.

    Free is great, but I don’t mind paying for a good plug-in. I’m wide open to suggestions.

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  • You can use the core flat rate shipping method:

    https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/flat-rate-shipping/

    Thread Starter suedepflow

    (@suedepflow)

    I tried that. I have zones properly configured. I can see how it lets me enter a flat rate value per zone. But I don’t see how it allows for a separate flat rate per item.

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by suedepflow.

    It is possible, look for [qty] in the documentation url I sent you.

    Thread Starter suedepflow

    (@suedepflow)

    I believe one of us is misunderstanding the other. I’m aware of what you’re referring to, but I’m not concerned with only quantity. I want to define a series of differing flat rates per product, not necessarily only per QTY. Example:

    After creating 5 different US zones based on state; I want to be able to manually price shipping like this:

    “Product A” = $15 * QTY for Zone 1, $18 * QTY per zone 2, $21 * QTY per zone 3
    “Product B” = $6 * QTY for Zone 1, $8 * QTY per zone 2, $12 * QTY per zone 3
    “Product C” = $35 * QTY for Zone 1, $50 * QTY per zone 2, $65 * QTY per zone 3

    If this is possible with the core flat rate shipping method, please show me how.

    Well, you could create a shipping class for every product.

    Thread Starter suedepflow

    (@suedepflow)

    I’ve tried using shipping classes to no avail. It seems they aren’t designed to do exactly what I want to do.

    I assume there isn’t a plug-in to achieve what I’m trying to do?

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by suedepflow.
    Joel Williams

    (@joelwills)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    Hi there!

    As lorro mentioned as far as I can tell shipping classes should achieve what you need. They group products into types for flat rate shipping.

    You can set a flat rate for Shipping Zone 1 and for shipping class A set 15 * [qty] and shipping class B 6 * [qty].

    Then assign products to shipping class A or B etc.

    That way when the address is in Shipping Zone 1 and they have two products in class A it will cost 30.

    You can set Calculation type to per class to charge for all products in a mixed cart.

    Then repeat for the different Shipping Zones you need with different costs.

    If you want to get more complicated and have more specific control, try Table Rate Shipping:

    https://www.woocommerce.com/products/table-rate-shipping/

    Hope that helps!

    Plugin Support Hannah S.L.

    (@fernashes)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    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.

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