María, a shop owner based in the Canary Islands has been running her online store for a few years. In order to ease the burden around tax calculations for her online store, she would like to set the Canary Island General Indirect Tax (IGIC) directly in her WooCommerce tax rates. This will allow taxes to be calculated correctly during checkout.

Traditionally, using just the core WooCommerce plugin, María would only be able to configure tax rates for Spain as a whole since the state code isn’t available during checkout.

Requirements

For this use-case, the following extensions are needed:

• Shipping Locations Pro – Used for adding the states/locations (and the state codes) for all of Spain, including its constituent islands.

Configuration

To configure the special tax rate for the Canary Islands in Spain, follow these steps:

1. Log in to your WordPress admin area;
2. Ensure that Shipping Locations Pro is installed & active
3. Navigate to WooCommerce > Settings > Shipping Locations
   
4. From the country dropdown field, select Spain
5. On the right-hand side, locate Las Palmas and Santa Cruz de Tenerife
6. Make a note of the Region code – GC and TF
7. Navigate to the WooCommerce tax rate settings at WooCommerce > Settings > Taxes > Standard Rates
8. Add a new line, using ES for the country code and GC as the state code with a tax rate of 7%
9. Repeat step #8 but use TF as the state code
10. Select Save changes

Result

When configured correctly, the results are illustrated below:

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Flat Rate Shipping is a free shipping method in WooCommerce that allows you define a standard rate per item, per shipping class or per order.

Flat Rate Shipping works with Product Shipping Classes, adding more power and flexibility.

Setup and Configuration

To use this method it must be added to a Shipping Zone.

1/ Go to: WooCommerce > Settings > Shipping.

2/ Hover over the Shipping Zone location that Flat Rate should be added to and select Edit. This will open up a new page where the Flat Rate settings will be set.

3/ In the Shipping Methods box, select Add Shipping Method.

4/ Select Flat Rate from the dropdown.

6/ Select Add shipping method.

7/ Select Edit for each row that you wish to define. Each Shipping Zone can have different (and multiple) Flat Rates if you wish. For example:

This takes you to a different screen.

6/ Enter a Title that displays to customers in checkout.

7/Select Tax Status – Define whether or not tax is applied to the shipping amount.

8/ Enter Cost – This is applied to the entire cart. Add additional costs per item to this field. See Advanced Costs below. This can be left blank to disable Flat Rate except where costs are added for Shipping Classes. Note that what you enter here may factor into the overall cost in the Shipping Classes section (see below), unless you leave it blank.

9/ Save changes.

Advanced Costs

The Cost field allows you to charge a flat rate per item, a percentage based cost or a minimum fee.

Available placeholders:

• [qty] – Number of products in the cart
• [fee] – An additional fee. This fee has two optional arguments.
  • percent – A percentage based on total order cost.
  • min_fee – A minimum amount. Useful when using percentages.
  • max_fee – A maximum amount. Useful when using percentages.

Examples

• 10 + ( 2 * [qty] ) – A base shipping cost of $10 plus $2 for each item in the cart.
• 20 + [fee percent="10" min_fee="4"] – A base shipping cost of $20 plus 10% of the order total, which is at least $4.

Shipping Classes

If you have shipping classes, the interface adds a few more fields:

There is one cost field for each shipping class.

• No Shipping Class Cost – Useful if you use the Per Class option below. Otherwise, use the Cost field.
• Calculation Type – Two options:
  • Per Order – Picks the most expensive option based on shipping costs in the cart.
  • Per Class – Charges shipping for each shipping class.

How to set up Free Shipping for some products and Flat Rate for the rest

If you would like to offer Free Shipping on some products but charge a Flat Rate for others, the best way to set this up is using Shipping Classes.

In this use case, we have set up three shipping classes: Free Shipping, Regular Shipping, and Expedited Shipping.

Once we have all the products added to their respective shipping classes, we can use the following settings to allow for the products in the Free Shipping class to not charge for shipping, while all the other products do.

By setting the Free Shipping class cost to use 0 * [qty], no matter how many products from that class are added to the cart, the shipping cost will not increase.

However, products in the Expedited Shipping class will cost $20 per product from that class (because we’re using 20 * [qty]) while Regular Shipping class products and products that have no shipping class will cost $10 per product to ship (as we’re using 10 * [qty] for each of those options).

This means that if you have one product from each of our three shipping classes, the total Flat Rate cost will be $30 ($20 for one Expedited Shipping product, $10 for one Regular Shipping product, and $0 for one Free Shipping product).

Note: For this to work as described above, it is important to set the Calculation Type to “Per Class: Charge shipping for each shipping class individually” and that the Cost field is left blank.

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Setup and Configuration

To offer the free shipping method it must be added to a Shipping Zone and you can add it to as many Shipping Zones as you like. Here’s how:

1/ Go to: WooCommerce > Settings > Shipping.

2/ Select a Shipping Zone, Click Edit

3/ Click Add Shipping Method and a modal will display. Select Free Shipping from the dropdown and Add shipping method.

4/ Select Free Shipping in the row you wish to define and select Edit.

5/ This takes you to a different screen to configure the free shipping method for that specific shipping zone.

6/ Enter a Title that displays to customers in checkout.

7/ Open the dropdown next to Free Shipping Requires…

• N/A – Not available, Free Shipping is an option for all customers
• A valid free shipping coupon – A coupon created that enables free shipping
• A minimum order amount – Free shipping is only available if a minimum amount is spent. Set this amount in the Minimum Order Amount field which will appear if you choose this option.
• A minimum order amount OR a coupon – Free shipping is available if a minimum amount is spent or the customer has a coupon that offers free shipping (see below: Create Free Shipping Coupons).
• A minimum order amount AND a coupon – Free shipping is offered only if a minimum amount is spent and the customer has a coupon that offers free shipping.

8/ If you have selected any of the options that include a minimum amount, enter a Minimum Order Amount.

9/ Finally, if you’ve selected any of the options that include a minimum amount, you can choose to apply this amount rule before or after coupon discounts have been applied. Below we explain this is a bit more detail (see: Coupon Discounts: When to Apply Minimum Order Total)

10/ Save changes.

Coupon Discounts: When to Apply Minimum Order Total

Since WooCommerce 4.1, you have the option to choose at what point the Minimum Order Total rule is implemented: before or after coupon discounts are applied.

This next example will help to illustrate the difference.

If you have a rule that the minimum order total should be $20, your customer has a product of $25 in the cart, and they also have a coupon that gives $10 off.

• After discount (Unchecked). In this case, the order amount is $25 – $10 = $15. The customer will not get free shipping according to the minimum order amount rule.
• Before discount (Checked). In this case, the order amount is $25 and the $10 discount is ignored. The customer will get free shipping according to the minimum order amount rule. The coupon discount will still be applied.

Create Free Shipping Coupons

1/ Create a coupon.

• Go to WooCommerce > Coupons.
• Select Add Coupon.
• Select Allow Free Shipping.
• Publish.

More info at: (Coupon Management).

2/ Enable free shipping for coupons.

• Go to the Free Shipping option you set up.
• Select the option A valid free shipping coupon from the dropdown.
• Save changes.

Customers can now use the coupon to get free shipping.

Advanced Options

Enabling or Disabling Free Shipping via Hooks

The free shipping method has an is_available function that can be hooked into:

return apply_filters( 'woocommerce_shipping_' . $this->id . '_is_available', $is_available );

This means you can use add_filter() on woocommerce_shipping_free_shipping_is_available and return true or false.

Frequently Asked Questions

How can I set up free shipping for orders over ___ ?

You need to set up at least one Shipping Zone. More at: Setting up Shipping Zones. Then follow steps above in Setup and Configuration, paying particular attention to #7, selecting A minimum order amount from the dropdown, then enter the amount (e.g., $25 or any amount you wish) in step #8.

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Local Pickup is a method that allows the customer to pick up the order themselves.

Setup and Configuration

To use this method it must be added to a Shipping Zone.

1/ Go to WooCommerce > Settings > Shipping.

2/ Select a Shipping Zone, and click the + icon to Add Shipping Method. A modal window will display.

3/ Select Local Pickup from the dropdown.

4/ Click Add shipping method.

5/ Click Local Pickup in the row you wish to define.

This takes you to a different screen.

6/ Enter a Title that displays to customers in checkout – some shops change the title to Local Delivery, for example.

7/ Select Tax Status – Define whether or not tax is applied to the shipping amount.

8/ Enter Cost – Cost for the option, is applied to entire cart.

9/ Save changes.

Customer view

Customers residing in the zone with this shipping option are able to select this in the cart and during checkout.

Cart view

Checkout view

Custom emails for local pickup

WooCommerce uses the standard order flow when the local pickup shipping method has been selected. For example, the customer receives the same order confirmation email whether local pickup or flat rate shipping has been selected.

To create custom emails, use the guide How to Add a Custom WooCommerce Email.

Disable local taxes when using local pickup

To disable local tax calculations for Local Pickup, add this snippet at the end of your theme functions.php file:

add_filter( 'woocommerce_apply_base_tax_for_local_pickup', '__return_false' );


Regular taxes will be used when local pickup is selected, instead of local taxes.

Changing the location for local taxes

To charge local taxes based on postcode and city for Local Pickup, you need to define the shop’s base city and post code using this code:

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Include in product price

One option is to include the insurance cost in the price of your products. This, however, has the downside that it gives customers the wrong impression on actual cost of a product.

Alternatives

Other options:

• If the insurance is optional, you can use this code example from Stack Exchange. It allows the customer to choose whether to use shipping insurance or not.
• If the insurance is not optional, our Payment Gateway Based Fees extension may work better. This allows you to add a cost to the payment method to charge an extra fee.

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If you’re using any of the previous (called ‘legacy’) shipping methods, they will continue to function. But we recommend moving to Shipping Zones as soon as possible because legacy methods will be removed in future releases.

Shipping Zones allows options to be used multiple times, so some former methods (such as international flat rate) are no longer required and can be replaced with Flat Rate Shipping.

Flat Rate Shipping

Flat Rate Shipping is a shipping method included free in WooCommerce that allows you define a standard rate per item, per shipping class or per order.

Settings are found at: WooCommerce > Settings > Shipping > Flat Rates.

Flat Rate Shipping works with Product Shipping Classes, adding more power and flexibility.

Configuration

In the Settings screen, there are a few options to choose from:

• Enable/Disable – Tick the box to enable Flat Rates.
• Method Title – Name the method. This is what the customer sees when selecting a shipping method.
• Availability – Define ‘All allowed countries’ or ‘specific countries’ to limit where Flat Rates are offered.
• Tax Status – Define whether or not tax is applied to the shipping amount.
• Cost – Define a cost applied to the entire cart. You can add additional costs per item to this field. This is covered below.

Advanced Costs

The Cost field allows you to charge a flat rate per item, a percentage based cost, or a minimum fee.

Available placeholders:

• [qty] – Number of products in the cart
• [fee] – An additional fee. This fee has two optional arguments.
  • percent – A percentage based on total order cost.
  • min_fee – A minimum amount. Useful when using percentages.

Examples

• 10 + ( 2 * [qty] ) – A base shipping cost of $10 plus $2 for each item in the cart.
• 20 + [fee percent="10" min_fee="4"] – A base shipping cost of $20 plus 10% of the order total, which is at least $4.

Shipping Classes

If you have shipping classes, the interface adds a few more fields:

There is one cost field for each shipping class.

• No Shipping Class Cost – Useful if you use the Per Class option below. Otherwise, use the Cost field.
• Calculation Type – Two options:
  • Per Order – Picks the most expensive option based on shipping costs in the cart.
  • Per Class – Charges shipping for each shipping class.

International Flat Rate Shipping

International Flat Rate is based on Flat Rate Shipping, which allows you define a standard rate per order, per item or per shipping class for international delivery.

The settings page is found at: WooCommerce > Settings> Shipping > International Flat Rate.

International Flat Rates works with Product Shipping Classes, adding more power and flexibility.

Configuration

• Enable/Disable – Tick the box to enable International Flat Rates.
• Method Title – Name the method. This is what the customer sees when selecting a shipping method.
• Availability – Define ‘All allowed countries’ or ‘specific countries’ to limit where International Flat Rates are offered.
• Tax Status – Define whether or not tax is applied to the shipping amount.
• Cost – Define a cost applied to the entire cart. You can add additional costs per item to this field. This is covered below.

Advanced Costs

What if you want to charge an international flat rate per item? Or a percentage-based cost? Or enforce a minimum fee? This is why we allow math in the Cost field.

Available placeholders:

• [qty] – Number of products in the cart
• [fee] – An additional fee. This fee has two optional arguments.
  • percent – A percentage based on total order cost.
  • min_fee – A minimum amount. Useful when using percentages.

Examples

• 10 + ( 2 * [qty] ) – A base shipping cost of $10 plus $2 for each item in the cart.
• 20 + [fee percent="10" min_fee="4"] – A base shipping cost of $20 plus 10% of the order total, which is at least $4.

Shipping Classes

If you have shipping classes, there is another section that adds a few more fields you can use:

• There will be a cost field for each shipping class you have.
• No Shipping Class Cost – Useful if you use the Per Class option below. Otherwise, use the Cost field.
• Calculation Type – Two options:
  • Per Order – Picks the most expensive option based on shipping costs in the cart.
  • Per Class – Charges shipping for each shipping class.

Free Shipping

If you enable free shipping, customers will have access to free shipping on their orders. This is a great shipping method to use to encourage customers to spend more. For example, give them free shipping on orders over $100.

Setup and Configuration

Be sure you give it a Method Title and set a Method Availability.

In Method Availability you can choose All allowed countries, letting any customer from any country be eligible for free shipping, or Specific Countries. If you choose Specific Countries a new field titled Specific Countries will appear you can use to limit free shipping to.

You can then specify a conditions they must meet to be granted free shipping in the Free Shipping Requires… Those are:

• N/A – Not available, Free Shipping is an option for all customers
• A valid free shipping coupon – A coupon created that enables free shipping
• A minimum order amount (defined below) – Set the amount in the Minimum Order Amount field.
• A minimum order amount OR a coupon
• A minimum order amount AND a coupon

Create Free Shipping Coupons

Step 1: Create a coupon
First create a coupon and then tick the Free Shipping box. More info at: (Coupon Management).

Step 2: Enable free shipping for coupons
In ‘free shipping’ settings, tick the option to require a free shipping coupon. Thats it! Customers can now use the coupon to get free shipping during checkout.

Coupon vs. Min Amount Handling

If you have coupons for free shipping and min-amount, coupons take priority. If the user has a coupon, the min-amount is ignored. If, however, the user doesn’t have a coupon, min-amount will be checked.

(Advanced) Enabling or disabling Free shipping via hooks

The free shipping method has an is_available function that can be hooked into:

return apply_filters( 'woocommerce_shipping_' . $this->id . '_is_available', $is_available );

This means you can use add_filter() on woocommerce_shipping_free_shipping_is_available and return true or false.

Local Delivery (removed)

Local Delivery has been removed from Legacy Shipping. See Shipping Zones.

Local delivery is a shipping method for delivering orders locally. The fee can be specified based on a percentage of the cart total or a flat fee, or it can be free.

You can enable and configure Local Delivery at: WooCommerce > Settings > Shipping > Local Delivery

Taxes for Local Delivery are based on the store location settings. If your tax rules are based on postcodes/zipcodes, then you need to use a function to ensure the store postcode/zipcode is included.

Local Pickup (removed)

Local Pickup has been removed from Legacy Shipping. See Local Pickup for WooCommerce.

Local Pickup is a method that allows the customer to pick up the order themselves.

You can enable and configure Local Pickup from WP Dashboard > WooCommerce > Settings > Shipping > Local Pickup.

To disable tax calculation for Local Pickup, add the following code at the end of your functions.php file:

add_filter( 'woocommerce_apply_base_tax_for_local_pickup', '__return_false' );


To charge local taxes based on postcode and city for Local Pickup, you need to define the shop’s base city and postcode using this snippet:

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With the Shipping Locations Pro extension installed, shop managers and administrators can create new states for each of the countries listed in WooCommerce. These states will be stored next to, and loaded alongside, the existing states.

Getting Started

To create a new state/region (or location if you will), please follow these steps:

1. Ensure that Shipping Locations Pro is installed & active
2. Navigate to WooCommerce > Shipping Locations
3. Under Manage Locations, select the country you would like to add a new location to
4. The list of current states for the selected country on the right-hand side will refresh
5. Enter the State Name you’d like to add
6. Enter the State Code you’d like to assign to the State Name
7. Click on the “Add” Button
8. Notice the newly created state show up on the right-hand side.

Pre-Loaded States

By default, WooCommerce includes states for specific countries (e.g. United States of America, China, India, South Africa etc.). With Shipping Locations Pro, shop owners get access to the full list of states for all countries (e.g. Ireland, United Kingdom, Germany etc.). To see a full list of all the supported countries, please consult the following guide: States packaged with Shipping Locations Pro.

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With the Shipping Locations Pro extension installed, shop managers and administrators can create delete states for each of the countries listed in WooCommerce.

Getting Started

To delete a state/location, please follow these steps:

1. Ensure that Shipping Locations Pro is installed & active
2. Navigate to WooCommerce > Shipping Locations
3. Under Manage Locations, select the country you would like to add a new location to
4. The list of current states for the selected country on the right-hand side will refresh
5. Hovering over the state that should be deleted will show the Delete option
6. Click on Delete to remove that state.

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With the Shipping Locations Pro extension installed, shop managers and administrators can use either newly created states or pre-loaded states in their shipping zone setup without needing postcodes/zipcodes.

Usage

Newly Created State

To use a custom state/location as a shipping zone, please follow these steps:

1. Create a new state for the country you’d like to target as outlined in the Creating New States guide
2. Navigate to the WooCommerce shipping settings at WooCommerce > Settings > Shipping > Shipping Zones
3. Create a new zone and select newly created state from the Zone regions dropdown field
4. Add suitable shipping methods for that shipping zone as dictated by the business requirements
5. Click on Save

Pre-Loaded State

Shipping Location Pro provices shop owners and administrators with a full list of states/locations that can be used in shipping zone regions. To use these pre-loaded list of states, please follow these steps:

1. Navigate to the WooCommerce shipping settings at WooCommerce > Settings > Shipping > Shipping Zones
2. Create a new zone and select any of the pre-loaded states from the Zone regions dropdown field
3. Add suitable shipping methods for that shipping zone as dictated by the business requirements
4. Click on Save

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