Free shipping is something that users are beginning to expect in the online world. You don't have to have it available for every order but there should be someway to unlock it. Built into WooCommerce is a Free Shipping method that can be configured to unlock after a specified order total has been reached or when the customer has a special coupon. We'll be setting the Free Shipping method to unlock after a customer has $100 of product(s) in their cart. With a little marketing on your site customers will be shooting for $100 even if they don't need that much.
In order to set a minimum order amount to unlock free shipping, go through the following steps:
- From the WordPress admin, go to WooCommerce | Settings | Shipping. From here you can access all of the WooCommerce Shipping Options.
- Make sure that both Enable shipping and Enable the shipping calculator on the cart page are checked:
- Click on Free Shipping.
- Make sure Enable Free Shipping is checked.
- For the Free Shipping Requires… setting, select A minimum order amount (defined below). In the Minimum Order Amount field enter your minimum order amount to unlock free shipping:
- Click on Save changes and you're done.
If you have Free Shipping as the only shipping method for your store then users who purchase less than $100 of physical products won't be able to checkout. You must enable some other shipping method for those users. In the next recipe we'll look at configuring Flat Rate Shipping, which is one of the more simple shipping methods to set up. Before setting up any other shipping methods I highly recommend you look into Flat Rate Shipping.