Advance Flat Rate Shipping Method For WooCommerce
“Advance Flat Rate Shipping Method ” plugin opens the possibility to create customize shipping options. WooCommerce offers few default shipping rate options but based on your country rules and regulation and nature of your business, you always need more options to setup the shipping rates in your stores. With“Advance Flat Rate Shipping Method” we provide you options to create as many flat rate shipping methods as you need and can set the custom rules as per your need. You can configure the flat rate shipping for – ‘Specific product’ , ‘Specific category’ , ‘Specific Tag’ ,’Specific Classes’ etc.
There are 12 types of options which allows you to add flat rate shipping method as below:
- Flat Rate Shipping Method For Countries OR Specific Countries.
- Flat Rate Shipping Method For Specific Products
- Flat Rate Shipping Method For Specific Category
- Flat Rate Shipping Method For Specific Tag
- Flat Rate Shipping Method For Specific Product SKU
- Flat Rate Shipping Method For Specific User
- Flat Rate Shipping Method For Specific User Role
- Flat Rate Shipping Method on particular Coupons
- Flat Rate Shipping Method on particular Order amount
- Flat Rate Shipping Method on particular Weight
- Flat Rate Shipping Method on particular Quantity
- Flat Rate Shipping Method on particular Shipping Class
Key Features of WooCommerce Advance Flat Rate Shipping Method
#1.Flat Rate Shipping Method For Countries OR Specific Countries.
You can set countries where you want this shipping method to be applicable (available) and you can set a custom shipping cost. This shipping method will only list the countries which you have picked here.
Flat Rate Shipping Method For specific Countries.
#2 Flat Rate Shipping Method For Specific Products
Use this feature when you want to make the shipping method visible only for specific products and you can set a custom shipping cost as well.
For example, if you select “Basketball” as a product, the current shipping method will only be visible if the customer has added “Basketball” product in his current cart.
#3 Flat Rate Shipping Method For Specific Category
Using this feature you can restrict your shipping method to be visible only for products of the specific category and you can set a custom shipping cost as well.
For example, you can create a new method like “Expensive Shipping $ 50”. This method should be visible only when the cart has any product from “Glass Products” category.
#4 Flat Rate Shipping Method For Specific Tag
Using this feature you can restrict your shipping method to be visible only for products from the specific tag and you can set a custom shipping cost as well.
For example, you can create a new method like “Special shipping $ 100”. This method should be visible only when the cart has any product having “fragile” tag.
#5 Flat Rate Shipping Method For Specific SKU
Using this feature you can restrict your shipping method to be visible only for products of specific SKU and you can set a custom shipping cost as well.
For example, you can create a new method like “Christmas Urgent $ 50”. This method should be visible only when the cart has a product of “CHRISTMAS007” SKU.
#6 Flat Rate Shipping Method For Specific User
When you want to make a shipping method visible only for selected user you can use this feature and you can set a custom shipping cost as well.
For example, let’s say you want to create a shipping method for your favorite buyer called “Special Shipping for JamesSmith – $ 10” for all his bulk orders. In this case, you have to chose James username in this textbox. Then this shipping method will only be visible to JamesSmith.
#7 Flat Rate Shipping Method For Specific Role
When you want to make a shipping method visible only for users from a specific group/role you can use this feature and you can set a custom shipping cost as well.
For example, let’s say you want to create a shipping method for all your wholesale customers called “Wholesale Shipping – $ 100” for all bulk orders. Then you can select the “wholesale” in this textbox.
#8 Flat Rate Shipping Method on particular Coupons
Using this feature you can restrict the shipping method only to be visible if the specified coupon is used on the current order.
For example, let’s say you want to offer a discounted shipping rate for your email campaign. You can create this method like “CyberMonday 2016 Shipping $ 5”. and this will be only visible if the customer uses the coupon you shared on your email campaign “CyberMonday2016”. You can achieve this using this feature.
#9 Flat Rate Shipping Method on particular Order amount
Order amount- If less than
Here you can enter maximum order amount to for which the shipping method should be visible.
Order amount – If greater than
Here you can enter minimum order amount after which the shipping method should be visible.
For example, if you want to setup a particular shipping cost for minimum $ 10 order total. In this case, the shipping method will only be visible to the customer if the order amount is greater than and equal to $ 10. For orders smaller than $ 10 it will not be visible. You can use this feature when you want to skip shipping charge when the order amount is less than what you specified.
#10 Flat Rate Shipping Method on particular Weight
Weight – If less than
Here you can enter maximum cart/product weight for which the shipping method should be visible.
Weight – If greater than
Here you can enter minimum cart/product weight after which the shipping method should be visible.
For example, if you want to setup a particular cost for minimum 150 lbs weight total. In this case, the shipping method will only be visible to the customer if the cart weight total is less than 150 lbs. For cart having greater than and equal to 150 lbs weight it will not be visible. You can use this feature when you want to skip shipping charge when the cart total weight is higher than what you specified.
#11 Flat Rate Shipping Method on particular Quantity
Quantity – If less than
Here you can enter maximum cart quantity for which the shipping method should be visible.
Quantity – If greater than
Here you can enter minimum cart quantity after which the shipping method should be visible.
For example, if you want to setup a particular cost for minimum 10 quantity of total cart.In this case,the shipping method will only be visible to customer if the cart quantity is greater than and equal to 10. For cart having less than 10 quantity, it will not be visible. You can use this feature when you want to skip shipping charge when the cart quantity is less than what you specified.
#12 Shipping amount be taxable method
If Tax Status is “Yes” then tax rate will apply on Shipping Cost as well. You can Manage your Tax rate by
#13 Flat Rate Shipping Method on particular Shipping Class
Shipping Class Costs:
This option allows user to add extra cost based on shipping classes. It provides all shipping classes which are already used for the product. It displays all shipping classes list with text box to add cost.
The shipping class cost will be added on the top of the main cost.For example, If you set $ 10 as the main cost and also add $ 5 cost on particular shipping class “microwave crockery”. So, if user buys “microwave bowl set” and this product have “microwave crockery” shipping class then this shipping method is applied on cart but the cost is $ 15 ( $ 10 [main cost] + $ 5 [Shipping class cost]).
#14 Localization
Advance Flat Rate Shipping Method For WooCommerce will translate based on your WordPress language setting by default. Currently, In our plugin will support English and Spanish language. If you would like to add more language then please generate .mo file and load in the plugin.
Technical Requirements
- WordPress 3.8+
- WooCommerce 2.2+
- jQuery (comes with WordPress 3.8+)
- jqueryui (comes with WordPress 3.8+) Latest browser, like Firefox or Chrome.