WooCommerce Shipping Pro – Chapter 4: Usability Features

In this article, we will tell you some of the usability features of WooCommerce Table Rate Shipping Pro. There are many features bundled with WooCommerce Shipping Pro to make shop owner’s life easy! Plain text summary of the shipping rule configured.

Many users struggle to set up shipping rules and it takes many hours of testing to complete the setup without any errors.  Here comes our first help!

set up shipping rules

After setting up multiple shipping rules, A text translation of the business rule will be displayed just under the row. Normally it would have taken hours of testing to understand exactly the shipping rule behavior, which is now available as Plan Text!  WoW! is n’t it amazing?

Hide the column(s) that are not used

Not all the columns in the Rate Matrix are used by all business.
Let’s take a case where you don’t need following columns for your business

  • No Country/State/Postcode criteria to configure shipping rule.
  • No Price/weight: Shipping rate calculated based on Quantity.
  • No Shipping class or Product Category based shipping.

You can hide above listed columns and use only the columns which are important for your business.

Hide the column(s) that are not used

It is convenient to display only the needed columns for business. And did you see the Display/Hide matrix columns has selected only 7 columns now? You can select the remaining columns whenever your business demands them.

International shipping using Rest of the world & Rest of the country & Any Country & Any States selection

After setting up shipping cost for few countries now you would like to setup single rate for the rest of the world and sweating thinking about setting up shipping rules for 100+ countries!! No way.

International shipping using Rest of the world & Rest of the country & Any Country & Any States selection

Similarly to set up shipping cost for all countries “Any Country” selection will be useful.

Rest of the Product Categories & Rest of the shipping classes & Any Shipping classes & Any Product Category selection

Rest of the Product Categories & Rest of the shipping classes & Any Shipping classes & Any Product Category selection

Copy/duplicate WooCommerce Shipping rules

If you need to set up a lot of shipping rules and if you wish to have a copy row option, there is one!

Copy/duplicate WooCommerce Shipping rules

Remove Free shipping text from WooCommerce Checkout

If the shipping cost is Zero and you would like to display ‘Contact us for shipping quote’ message and you don’t want to see the default ‘(Free)’ text. Select ‘Remove Free Text’ option in the settings screen.

Remove Free shipping text from WooCommerce Checkout

Let’s have a look at how free shipping appears in the checkout:

cart total

WooCommerce Shipping Pro replace free shipping, flat rate shipping, International shipping

WooCommerce Shipping Pro Plugin is advanced and easy to set up compared to other woo commerce shipping plugins in the market and importantly this plugin can replace woo commerce free shipping, flat rate shipping, and International shipping modules.

Import a huge list of shipping rules onto your WordPress/WooCommerce website

Let’s assume you have far too many shipping rules, say 4800, to be uploaded into the plugin settings page. How do you manage and import such huge data into the plugin?

Well, the best way to configure rules in the WooCommerce Table Rate Shipping Pro plugin is to create the shipping rules in a CSV. Once that is done, you can import the CSV file using the Import/Export CSV option provided in the plugin. All rules will be imported perfectly.

How to combine multiple WooCommerce shipping rules into a single rule?

While uploading or adding a large number of shipping rules for different type of products, there are times when the shipping will be calculated for all the products based on a single factor, for example total weight. In such a scenario, you can combine the shipping rules for individual products using the WooCommerce Shipping Classes or WooCommerce Product Categories.

All you need to do is create a single Shipping Class or Product Category. Then, you need to add all of the products for which the shipping has to be calculated based on weight to the Shipping Class. Thereafter, you can create a single rule for the whole Shipping Class and set the shipping cost per weight.

This way, a single rule will calculate the shipping cost for all the products within the Shipping Class, and it will be easier to edit or modify the rule in the plugin settings as well.