Projects Shipping prices that finally matched real cost, by zone, weight and product
Shipping prices that finally matched real cost, by zone, weight and product
Set up complex, rule-based shipping pricing across states, so customers paid a rate that actually reflected weight, product type and destination.
- How long
- 2015
- My role
- DevelopmentSupport
- Kind of project
- Store extensionMedium project
What the business needed.
Nutrition Solutions needed to ship products across US states at rates that actually reflected shipping cost, not one flat number, factoring in the customer’s region, the weight and price of what they’d ordered, and different rules for different types of products.
What I did.
I set up WooCommerce’s Table Rate Shipping, one of the most complex shipping plugins in the WooCommerce ecosystem, configuring shipping zones mapped to batches of zip codes, pricing rules based on weight, price and item count, rule “breaks” that stop further calculation once a condition is met, and shipping classes so certain products follow their own separate pricing rules. When a customer enters their billing address, the correct region and pricing rules apply automatically.
What they got.
Shipping rates that update automatically based on where the order is going and what’s in it, instead of a single flat rate that either overcharges or undercharges depending on the order.
For your technical person
- Stack: WordPress, PHP, MySQL, CSS, WooCommerce Table Rate Shipping. - Shipping zones manually configured, each mapped to a batch of zip codes. - Address-based automatic zone and pricing-rule matching at checkout. - Rate rules by item weight, price and count, including rule “breaks” that stop further rate calculation once a condition is met. - Shipping classes assigning specific products to their own separate rule sets. - Note: Table Rate Shipping is one of WooCommerce’s most complex shipping plugins; this configuration draws on time spent learning it fully while working WooCommerce support at WooThemes (Apr to Aug 2014). - Project size: medium. Delivered 2015.
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