No matter if you are a huge shop owner selling worldwide the thousands of products per month or you run a small store targeted for the narrow audience, there might be some products you want to offer the free shipping for. In this guide I will show you how to set the free shipping for specific products in WooCommerce using the shipping classes. All in just three steps.
Offering the free shipping has been proven to boost the sales and to keep the customers satisfied as well. The higher the satisfaction level is because of the shipping savings, the higher is the chance the customers will return to shop more. So, why not to use it to your advantage, especially since it is pretty easy to set up? To make it even easier I will use the…
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Add to cart or View DetailsLet’s start with the first step and create a new shipping class. Choose WooCommerce → Settings → Shipping → Shipping Classes → Add Shipping Class from the sidebar and name it as you like. I called it Free shipping for the purposes of this guide:
If you are not familiar with using the shipping classes or want to know more about them check our detailed shipping classes guide →
If the shipping class has been successfully created you can move on to the second step. Let’s assign it now to the specific product or group of products. To achieve that find the product in your shop you want the free shipping to be applied to and hit the Edit product button. On the product details page scroll down to the Product Data section. In the Shipping tab assign the Shipping class you’ve previously created to the product by choosing it from the dropdown:
Save the changes with Update button and proceed to the final step.
The only thing left you need to do is to define how the shipping costs should be calculated for the products with Free shipping shipping class. You can say the answer is pretty obvious – it should be free, however, it still needs to be configured. Start the whole process with creating a new shipping method handled by Flexible Shipping:
Hit the Edit link which will appear after moving the mouse over the shipping method’s title and go to the shipping method configuration screen. After filling in the required fields above scroll down to the Shipping Cost Calculation Rules table. Add a new rule and:
Save the changes using the button below. As a result of the setup above every time the customer adds the product with Free shipping shipping class into the cart, he will see the shipping method you created and it will be cost-free.
If you want the other shipping methods to remain hidden when the customer puts a product with Free shipping shipping class into the cart, you should edit the existing shipping the way described below:
Putting this rule on the top will result in checking if its condition is met first. Selecting the Hide special action in turn will prevent the WooCommerce from calculating the following rules. So, if the customer puts only the product with Free shipping shipping class into the cart only the free shipping method will appear. Other paid methods will remain hidden.
If it comes to hiding you may also check our guide How to offer WooCommerce free shipping over amount and hide other shipping methods →
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How to set the free shipping for specific products in WooCommerce?
Hi, you need to assign the unique shipping class to the products which should be shipped for free first and then configure the zero-cost shipping cost calculation rule which will be applied only to these products. Here you can find a dedicated step-by-step guide how to set it up: https://docs.flexibleshipping.com/article/73-flexible-shipping-free-shipping-for-specific-product-shipping-class
What if we wish to offer free shipping ONLY for the items in “free shipping class” but still need to charge shipping based on rate table for any other products the customer purchases in addition to the one that gets free shipping? Our problem is that either the cart does NOT offer free shipping for the specific product – or – it offers free shipping for everything and anything added to the cart. Help! What are we doing wrong?
Hi May May, the right solution in such case depends on the fact if the other products you are selling in your shop have different shipping classes assigned or not. If not, you can use the When: Shipping Class: None condition to target all the products which shouldn’t be shipped for free and set the cost calculation rules for them. Then you should create one more rule for the free ones using the When: Shipping Class: Free shipping condition, set 0 as its cost and make sure the Rules Calculation is set to Sum. However, if you use more shipping classes for the products in your shop and e.g. all of them have different ones assigned, you should simply define the rules for shipping classes combinations to make the specific rules be triggered when there are certain products in the cart.
I sell products in dropshipping, so I created 10 different shipping classes (one for each supplier) to charge the correct shipping price if customer put in the cart two products coming from two different my suppliers. I’m using package feature to do it with Group By set to Shipping class and method to Package.
I want to set now a free shipping amount threshold logic for each Shipping class
For example if in the cart I have a product’s amount of Supplier A that is above the free shipping threshold and product’s amount of Supplier B that is below the free shipping threshold, I need to charge a shipping cost relative the Supplier B and free shipping cost for Supplier A.
How can I set the plug in to do it?
Thanks for support
Regards
Giovanni
Hi Giovanni, the scenario you’ve described should include the free shipping threshold (or actually zero shipping cost to be more precise) coming from the shipping cost calculation rules using the shipping classes as well. If you encounter any difficulties with the configuration, please contact us directly at https://octolize.com/support/ and we’ll help you with the proper setup.