Custom Shipping Methods for WooCommerce

Add custom shipping methods to WooCommerce.

Author:	Imaginate Solutions (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:	4.4
WordPress version tested:	5.9.2
Plugin version:	1.8.0
Added to WordPress repository:	13-05-2018
Last updated:	12-11-2023
Rating, %:	94
Rated by:	13
Plugin URI:	https://imaginate-solutions.com/downloads/cus...
Total downloads:	25 416
Active installs:	3 000+
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Custom Shipping Methods for WooCommerce plugin lets you add (multiple) custom shipping methods to WooCommerce.

Shortcodes for cost calculation

In each custom shipping method’s cost calculation formula you can use these shortcodes:

[qty] – number of items (i.e. quantity) in cart,
[cost] – total cost of items in cart,
[weight] – total cart items weight,
[volume] – total cart items volume,
[fee] – percentage based fees,
[round] – rounding.

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Rules for each shipping method

In addition, for each custom shipping method, you can optionally set these method availability options:

min and max cart cost,
min and max cart weight,
min and max cart volume,
min and max cart quantity,
required and excluded cart products,
required and excluded cart product categories,
required and excluded cart product tags.

Costs based on Product Shipping Class

Optionally costs can be added based on the product shipping class:

costs per product shipping class and for no shipping class,
calculation type: charge shipping per class or per order,
limits calculation: check limits per class, per order or all.

Advanced options include custom return URL – it can be used instead of the standard “Order received” page.

In addition to the above, you can also create customized templates for icons that would be displayed besides the shipping method title.
Also, add custom text with HTML for Free Shipping i.e Zero cost.

Premium Version

Custom Shipping Methods for WooCommerce Pro plugin version also has:

[costs_table] shortcode for table rate shipping – Costs are calculated using Google Distance Matrix API,
[distance] shortcode for distance based cost calculation,
options to set free shipping minimum order amount,
options to set free shipping products,
options to set min and max cost limits,
options to set min and max distance availability,
options to set custom shipping methods’ frontend icons and descriptions.

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ChangeLog

1.8.0 – 16/09/2021

Fix – Required Categories and Required Tags rules were not applied for Custom Shipping methods.
WC tested up to: 5.6

1.7.0 – 09/07/2021

Dev – Filter added to modify the totals. This can be used to consider totals with taxes.
Dev – Refactorted the code as per WPCS standards.
WC tested up to: 5.4

1.6.3 – 22/03/2020

WC tested up to: 4.0.

1.6.2 – 18/02/2020

Fix – Admin Settings – Text domain fixed.
Dev – Availability – “Require type” option added.

1.6.1 – 22/01/2020

Dev – Shortcodes – [round] shortcode added.
Dev – Code refactoring.
WC tested up to: 3.9.

1.6.0 – 30/12/2019

Dev – Availability – “Required/Excluded products/categories/tags” options added.
Dev – “Free shipping products” option added.
Dev – Settings – Icons & Descriptions – Placeholders list added to the description.
Dev – Code refactoring.

1.5.3 – 11/12/2019

Dev – Shortcodes – [distance] – Caching results now.
Dev – Code refactoring.

1.5.2 – 06/12/2019

Dev – Availability – “Min distance” and “Max distance” options added.
Dev – Advanced – “Custom return URL” option added.
Dev – Shortcodes – [costs_table] – Evaluating math expressions in costs now.
Dev – Admin settings descriptions updated.
Dev – Code refactoring.

1.5.1 – 13/11/2019

Dev – Shortcodes – [distance] – Returning default_distance at once when source or destination address is empty.
WC tested up to: 3.8.
Tested up to: 5.3.

1.5.0 – 23/10/2019

Feature – Shortcodes – [distance] – Rounding attributes added (rounding and rounding_precision).
Feature – Shortcodes – [distance] – Min and max distance attributes added (min_distance and max_distance).
Dev – Code refactoring.

1.4.3 – 03/10/2019

Dev – General – Frontend Settings – Add to zero cost – Admin settings descriptions updated.
WC tested up to: 3.7.

1.4.2 – 14/06/2019

Dev – Shipping class costs – “Limits calculation” option added.
Dev – Admin settings descriptions updated (“Free shipping min amount”).
Dev – Minor code refactoring.

1.4.1 – 25/05/2019

Dev – General – Frontend Settings – Trigger checkout update – Now triggering checkout update only on billing_ and shipping_ input change.
Dev – General – Frontend Settings – Add to zero cost – Admin settings descriptions updated.

1.4.0 – 24/05/2019

Feature – Shortcodes – [costs_table] – table_format attribute added (defaults to min; other possible value: range) (and default_cost attribute added).
Feature – Shortcodes – [distance] – Miles (mi) option added to the units attribute (same applies to [costs_table prop="distance" ...]).
Dev – General – Frontend Settings – “Trigger checkout update” option added.
Dev – Shortcodes – [distance] – default attribute renamed to default_distance.
Dev – WC_Shipping_Alg_Custom – alg_wc_custom_shipping_methods_add_rate filter added.
Dev – WC_Shipping_Alg_Custom – evaluate_cost() function visibility changed from protected to public.
WC tested up to: 3.6.
Tested up to: 5.2.

1.3.1 – 09/02/2019

Feature – [costs_table] – cost property added (i.e. [costs_table prop="cost" ...]).
Feature – “Free shipping minimum order amount” option added.
Dev – [costs_table] – Code refactoring.
Dev – Admin settings restyled.

1.3.0 – 03/12/2018

Feature – “Min cost limit” and “Max cost limit” options added.
Feature – [distance] shortcode added.
Feature – distance prop added to the [costs_table] shortcode (i.e. [costs_table prop="distance"]).
Dev – Method settings descriptions updated.
Dev – alg_wc_custom_shipping_methods_evaluate_cost_sum and alg_wc_custom_shipping_methods_evaluate_cost_sum_evaluated filters added.

1.2.1 – 14/11/2018

Feature – “Replace zero cost” options added.
Dev – Code refactoring.

1.2.0 – 18/09/2018

Feature – “Method icon” and “Method description” options added.
Fix – [costs_table] shortcode fixed.
Dev – Admin settings restyled.

1.1.0 – 14/09/2018

Feature – Availability – “Min cost”, “Max cost”, “Min volume”, “Max volume”, “Min quantity”, “Max quantity” options added.
Fix – Core – Checking if product has dimensions before calling get_height(), get_width() and get_length() in get_products_volume().
Fix – Core – Checking if product has weight before calling get_weight() in get_products_weight().
Dev – Default “Admin title” and “Method title” values updated.
Dev – Minor admin settings restyling.
Dev – Code refactoring.
Dev – POT file added.
Dev – Plugin description in readme.txt updated.
Dev – Plugin URI updated.

1.0.0 – 09/05/2018

Initial Release.

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