Shipping Manager – WooCommerce Table Rate, Weight Based & Advanced Shipping Rules
Shipping Manager is a table rate shipping plugin for WooCommerce. It lets you charge exactly what shipping costs you, by building rules based on cart total, cart subtotal, item quantity, total weight, weight unit, and WooCommerce shipping classes — all from one screen, with no code.
WooCommerce ships with Flat Rate and Free Shipping. Those work until your pricing has an “it depends” in it: heavier orders cost more, big orders ship free, fragile items carry a surcharge. Shipping Manager adds a shipping method you drop into any WooCommerce shipping zone, and inside it you build a table of rules. At checkout, every rule that matches the cart is added up into a single, accurate shipping rate.
Why store owners choose Shipping Manager
- Rules, not guesswork. Stop rounding shipping up “to be safe” and losing conversions, or rounding down and eating the cost.
- One method, unlimited rules. Stack as many conditions as you need. Matching costs add together.
- Per zone. Different countries and regions can have completely different pricing.
- Nothing to learn. It lives inside WooCommerce’s own shipping settings, where you already work.
- No coding. No snippets, no
functions.php, no filters.
How it works
Shipping Manager plugs into WooCommerce’s native shipping system rather than replacing it:
Shipping zone → Shipping Manager method → your rules → rate shown at checkout
- Add the method to a shipping zone. Go to WooCommerce → Settings → Shipping, open a zone, choose Add shipping method, and pick Shipping Manager.
- Build your rules. Click the method to open its settings. Each row in the rules table is one condition and one cost.
- Done. WooCommerce shows the calculated rate at cart and checkout.
Because it is a normal WooCommerce shipping method, everything you already know still applies: shipping zones, shipping classes, tax settings, and the cart/checkout blocks all work as usual.
Shipping rules you can build
Every rule row picks one condition and a cost. Costs from all matching rules are added together, which is what makes stacked pricing possible.
Rules are grouped by what they inspect. Every row picks one condition and a cost.
General
- Flat Rate — always applies. Use it for a base handling charge.
- Per Item — multiplies the cost by the number of items in the cart.
Cart
- Quantity — compares the total number of items in the cart using equals, not equal, greater than, less than, greater than or equal, less than or equal.
- Line Items — compares how many different products are in the cart, with the same operators. Useful for pick-and-pack fees.
- Subtotal — applies when the cart subtotal falls inside a minimum/maximum range.
- Total — applies when the cart total falls inside a minimum/maximum range.
- Cart Volume — applies when the combined volume (length x width x height x quantity) falls in a range. This is dimensional / volumetric pricing, which WooCommerce cannot do at all.
Product
- Per Weight Unit — multiplies the cost by the cart’s total weight. Enter the price of one kg (or lb) and it scales automatically.
- Total Weight — applies when the cart’s total weight falls inside a minimum/maximum range.
- Shipping Class — applies when the cart contains any of the WooCommerce shipping classes you select.
- Product Category — applies when the cart contains a product from any category you select. No shipping class setup required.
- Product Tag — the same, keyed on product tags.
- Specific Products — target individual products, or a single variation, by searching for them. Uses WooCommerce’s own product search, so it works on catalogs of any size.
Destination
- Postcode — applies when the delivery postcode matches. Accepts exact codes,
*wildcards (SW1*) and numeric ranges (1000...2000) — the same shorthand WooCommerce shipping zones use, so you can price by postcode without creating a zone per area. - State / County — applies when the delivery state or county code matches, e.g.
CA, NY, TX.
Order
- Coupon Applied — applies when any of the listed coupon codes is on the order. Lets a coupon change the shipping price, which core WooCommerce coupons cannot do.
Leave a minimum or maximum empty to mean “no limit” on that side. A rule with a minimum of 100 and an empty maximum applies to every cart of 100 and above.
Recipes: common setups
Weight-based shipping Add one Per Weight Unit rule at your per-kg rate. Optionally add a Flat Rate row as a base handling fee. A 3 kg order at 2.00/kg plus a 5.00 base = 11.00.
Tiered table rate by order value Add three Subtotal rules: 0–49.99 → 9.95, 50–99.99 → 4.95, 100 and above (leave max empty) → 0. Bigger carts ship cheaper, automatically.
Free shipping over a threshold Add a Subtotal rule with a minimum of 0 and a maximum just under your threshold, carrying your normal cost. Carts above the threshold match no rule, so no cost is added.
Surcharge for bulky or fragile goods Create a WooCommerce shipping class (for example “Fragile”), assign it to those products, then add a Shipping Class rule selecting it with your surcharge. It only applies when one of those products is in the cart.
Per-item packing fee Add a Quantity rule using greater than or equal with your break point, and the extra packing cost.
Remote-area surcharge by postcode
Add a Postcode rule listing the ranges you want to surcharge, for example 1000...1999, HS*, ZE*, with the extra cost. It applies on top of your normal rules.
Category-based handling fee Add a Product Category rule selecting, say, “Furniture”, with its handling cost. No shipping classes to set up.
Charge more for one specific product Add a Specific Products rule, search for the product (or a single variation), and set its surcharge.
Let a coupon change the shipping price
Add a Coupon Applied rule listing codes such as FREESHIP. Core WooCommerce coupons can only grant free shipping outright; this adjusts the calculated rate instead.
Dimensional / volumetric pricing Fill in length, width and height on your products, then add Cart Volume rules in bands — 0–5000 at 6.95, 5000 and above at 12.95.
Regional surcharge by state
Add a State / County rule listing the codes you surcharge, e.g. AK, HI.
Different pricing per country Add the Shipping Manager method to each shipping zone separately. Each one keeps its own independent rules table.
Free features
- Table rate shipping for WooCommerce
- Weight-based shipping — per weight unit and total weight ranges
- Cart total and cart subtotal range pricing
- 16 rule conditions covering the cart, its products, the destination and the order
- Cart quantity and line-item rules with six comparison operators
- Full WooCommerce shipping class support (multi-select)
- Product category and product tag rules (multi-select)
- Specific product and variation targeting, with live product search
- Postcode rules with wildcard and range matching
- State / county rules
- Coupon-aware shipping rules
- Volumetric (dimensional) pricing on total cart volume
- Per-item and per-weight-unit multipliers
- Flat rate / base handling fee
- Unlimited rules per method, each with its own label and on/off switch
- Duplicate any rule in place, or duplicate and delete in bulk
- Unlimited methods — add it to as many shipping zones as you like
- Custom method name and description shown to customers at checkout
- Per-method tax status (Taxable or None)
- Import/export rules: copy to clipboard, paste, download as a .json file, or import one — replacing or appending
- Built-in setup guide that tells you what is configured and what is missing
- Works with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS)
- Works with the WooCommerce Cart and Checkout blocks
- Translation ready
Pro features (upcoming)
- Distance-based shipping calculation
- Role-based shipping rates
- Advanced class-based shipping
- Premium delivery day and time slot selection
- Multiple rulesets per method
- Advanced processing fees
- Coupon-aware free shipping thresholds
- Delivery date selection and customizable delivery slips
- Real-time shipment tracking
- Shipping rule analytics
- Multi-vendor marketplace support
Compatibility
- WooCommerce 6.6 and above, tested up to 11.0
- WordPress 5.8 and above
- PHP 7.4 and above
- HPOS (High-Performance Order Storage) — declared compatible
- Cart & Checkout blocks — declared compatible
- Shipping zones and shipping classes — uses WooCommerce’s own, no duplicates to maintain
- Works with any theme, because rates render through WooCommerce’s standard cart and checkout templates
Privacy and external services
Shipping Manager does not track visitors and does not send any customer or order data anywhere.
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