PW WooCommerce Exclude Free Shipping

Description

Let’s say your customer has the following products in their cart:

Paper Airplane
Box of playing cards
A Grand Piano

You offer “free shipping for orders over $50” but you specify that some restrictions apply.

Naturally the Grand Piano will cost quite a bit to ship so you don’t want to offer free shipping on this order.

With this plugin, the Grand Piano can be marked “Exclude Free Shipping” which means the user will pay for shipping of this unique item. See screenshots for a visual example.

Works for Simple Products, Variable Products, and even Variations!

I have many products that I need to update. How can I do this quickly?
This plugin is compatible with our PW WooCommerce Bulk Edit Pro plugin.
Quickly update the products that should be excluded from the Free Shipping offer.

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Installation

Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/pw-woocommerce-exclude-free-shipping directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
Navigate to a WooCommerce Product and open the Shipping tab.
Check (or uncheck) the “Exclude Free Shipping” checkbox.

Screenshots

By default, the "Exclude Free Shipping" field is unchecked.
Customers will likely not want to pay shipping!
Checking the "Exclude Free Shipping" stops you from losing money.
Free Shipping is no longer an option.

Faq

Can I use PW WooCommerce Bulk Edit to check the Exclude Free Shipping field?

Yes, and you can get it here: PW WooCommerce Bulk Edit

Reviews

So brilliant!

By kulaboks on October 3, 2025

It's a hidden gem, it would deserve more attention! Thank you so much.

Easy peasy

By CharlieF (CarloFischetti) on March 23, 2024

Great solution to exclude some products from free shipping. Thanks!

Great!

By Dan Miller Coding (danmillercoding) on November 22, 2022

Great plugin!!

Just works.

By websitebuilder (kesleywp) on December 16, 2021

Easy setup and it immediatly works.

Does exactly what it says!

By bigdrop.gr (bigdropgr) on December 10, 2021

This plugin does exactly what it says!

Sencillo y Perfecto

By amdacoba on June 21, 2020

Me funciona perfectamente. Lo utilizo conjuntamente con las dos opciones que trae Woocommerce y he solucionado el problema "del piano de cola" que explica el desarrollador. Si la compra es de productos "normales", trabajan las opciones de "precio fijo" y "envío gratis" que trae Woocmmerce por defecto. Si la compra incluye un artículo "especial" marcado con este plugin, ya no aparece la opción de "envío gratis" y trabaja solo con la opción de "precio fijo". A mayores si al producto "especial" le asignas una "clase de envío", ya tienes además la opción de sumar precios fijos especiales por clase de envío. Lo dicho, una combinación simple, sencilla, ligera y gratis.

Works perfectly, checkout shows no free shipping

By RudySimons on June 4, 2020

This plugin is the easiest thing and works perfectly. I have tested 2 other plugins and both of them still showed free shipping as an option at checkout and this plugin doesn´t.

Use to work and no longer does 🙁

By smellcoffee on May 8, 2019

PW WooCommerce Exclude Free Shipping worked well before a recent redesign and now its unusable. I've tried a combination of deactivating other plugins to test conflicts and set up a mirror site for the developer to test with out luck. Developer did responded minimally to my initial two emails saying he would check the testing server and has since gone silent which is unfortunate. This was a great simple plug-in and filled a need.

Great plugin, thank you!

By Betty Maszlay (papireper) on November 7, 2018

Exactly what I need, thank you so much!

Quick, easy, simple. Just what I was looking for.

By arickards on April 18, 2018

This plugin does exactly what it says and does it beautifully. Thank you very much.

Changelog

1.43

Compatibility with WooCommerce 10.1.

1.42

Compatibility with WordPress 6.8 and WooCommerce 9.8.

1.41

Load translation files in the plugins_loaded event rather than init.

1.40

Changed hook for loading translations file to avoid warning in WordPress 6.7.

1.39

Compatibility with WordPress 6.7 and WooCommerce 9.4.

1.38

Compatibility with WordPress 6.6 and WooCommerce 9.1. Added requirement for WooCommerce plugin to be installed.

1.37

WooCommerce 9.0 compatibility.

1.36

Compatibility with WordPress 6.5 and WooCommerce 8.7 Revised tags in readme.txt

1.35

Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 6.4

1.34

Confirmed compatibility with WooCommerce 8.2

Previous versions

See changelog.txt