In this article, I’ll teach you how to configure WooCommerce free shipping coupon. In this configuration, you will have both Free Shipping and Flate Rate shipping method. The second one will not show in the checkout when Free Shipping is available.
Let’s say we want to configure such rules:
By default, you configure two shipping methods: Flat Rate for the first condition and Free Shipping for the second one.
Free Shipping is not difficult to configure. However, there is a problem with such a configuration. Both of the shipping methods will show up in the cart.
I will tell you more about it later and I will give you a few solutions.
Go to your shipping zone.
Click the Add shipping method button and select the shipping methods.
Click on the Flat Rate. The Flat Rate Settings for our example will look like this:
Next step is to configure the Free Shipping method. If you need help with it, read our WooCommerce Free Shipping Guide →
Once you add these two methods, you will see such screen:
You need to create a coupon next:
If you don’t have Coupons in WooCommerce menu, you need to activate them. You’ll find the option in WooCommerce settings:
While creating a coupon, you need to mark Allow free shipping checkbox:
That’s all. You have configured WooCommerce free shipping coupon and it works now in your store.
You can use the coupon for marketing purposes.
But there’s one thing I mentioned at the beginning of this article.
When customers add the coupon to an order, they will see both shipping methods:
But in such situation you want to show only the Free Shipping, right?
So we want to configure it this way:
When customers don’t add a coupon to an order, there should be £10 flat rate in the cart:
When they use a coupon, there should be only Free shipping available:
I think that free shipping coupons should work this way by default.
You need a function that will hide all other shipping methods except for the Free shipping.
I found two solutions:
I’ll guide you through both of them.
It’s easier to use a plugin.
You need to download WC Hide Shipping Plugin. It is a free plugin. Over 5.000 stores use on a daily basis.
You need to install and activate the plugin. Next, you can configure it.
Go to WooCommerce → Settings → Shipping → Shipping options:
As you see above, you can select which shipping methods the store should display in the checkout:
You can select the second option if you use Local Pickup in your store.
There is another solution. You can simply add a snippet to your theme’s function.php file.
It’s a short snippet as you can see below:
You can use Flexible Shipping plugin that we developed instead of Flat Rate.
Over 229,579 stores worldwide use this plugin on a daily basis.
This plugin lets you create table rate shipping methods. Learn more about them.
It is very powerful. People appreciate Flexible Shipping! Look:
This plugin is not only powerful. It is available to download for free!
The best Table Rate Shipping for WooCommerce. Period. Create shipping rules based on weight, order totals or item count.
Download for free or Go to WordPress.orgIn this article, you have learned how to configure WooCommerce Free Shipping Coupon. Also, you have learned three solutions to hide all other shipping methods in the cart.
If you need any more help, let us know in the comments section below.
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Hi Szymon
Having issues with free shipping coupon.
I have 3 tier UK shipping pricing – Free 48 over £30, Free 24 over £60 and Free GND over £100.
I want to offer free UK48 shipping with a coupon.
If I don’t put a value on the coupon nothing is deducted, and no free shipping is granted
If I do put a value on the coupon, it deducts the value irrespective of what the basket value is – so if basket is £65, free shipping is qualified already but if the code is used it deducts the value of the coupon.
I don’t wish to remove all other shipping options when free is available – customer may want to pay upgrade anyway….
Driving me nuts!
Hi Edge of Heaven, have you tried configuring the coupon this way?
In the Flexible Shipping PRO 1.11.0 release we have also added a new feature allowing to ignore the price changes coming from the coupons during the free shipping calculation:
, which might turn out to be useful in your case.