About this plugin
Free Shipping Excluder for WooCommerce gives you granular control over how products affect your free shipping eligibility. You can exclude individual products or entire categories from counting towards your free shipping minimum amount, or completely disable free shipping for the entire order if a specific product is added to the cart. This is perfect for stores that sell items like gift cards, services, promotional products, or heavy/bulky items that shouldn’t qualify for free shipping.
Features
- Product-level exclusion – Exclude individual products from free shipping calculations via a simple checkbox in the product shipping settings
- Category-level exclusion – Exclude entire product categories, automatically applying the exclusion to all products within those categories
- Disable free shipping entirely – Completely disable free shipping for the entire order if a specific product is in the cart, regardless of order total
- Flexible control – Use either method or both together to match your specific business needs
- Seamless integration – Works with WooCommerce’s native free shipping method
- No configuration complexity – Simple checkboxes, no complicated settings
How It Works
When a customer adds items to their cart, the plugin calculates the free shipping eligibility by:
1. Checking if any product in the cart has “Disable free shipping if in cart” enabled. If so, free shipping is immediately disabled for the entire order.
2. Checking each product for exclusion settings (both product-level and category-level)
3. Summing only the eligible products’ costs
4. Comparing the total against your free shipping threshold
Excluded products can still be purchased and shipped – they just don’t count towards the minimum amount needed for free shipping.
Use Cases
- Exclude gift cards from free shipping calculations
- Exclude digital products or services
- Prevent free shipping entirely for bulky, heavy, or high-shipping-cost items
- Exclude promotional items or samples
- Exclude low-margin products
- Exclude entire categories like “Accessories” or “Downloads”
Contribution
You are welcome to contribute to this free and open source extension:
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Source Code:
com/nagpai/free-shipping-excluder
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Report Issues / Wishlists:
com/nagpai/free-shipping-excluder/issues
Support
- Use the Dedicated WP.org Support Forum
- Contact the plugin author
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