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WP PlugIndex currently records Product Category Shipping for WooCommerce version 1.4.5 as active, updated 27d ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Overview
About this plugin
Product Category Shipping lets WooCommerce store owners define shipping rules per product category instead of per order or per product. Two rule types are available:
Flat Rate — a base charge for the first item, plus an optional per-additional-item charge.
Tiered Quantity — unlimited min/max quantity brackets, each with its own price or a “free” flag.
The plugin splits the cart into one WooCommerce shipping package per managed category, so charges are additive and customers see one shipping line per category.
g. distributors, wholesale accounts) can additionally be offered a cart-wide choice between Free Local Pickup and the configured shipping charge. When this mode is active the cart is not split — the customer sees a single combined shipping total alongside the free pickup option.
Features
Per-category shipping rules (flat rate or tiered quantity)
Tiered rules support free-shipping thresholds (e.g. “free when quantity ≥ 6”)
Split-cart mode: one shipping line per category, additive charges
Combined-cart mode for selected roles: Shipping + Free Local Pickup as two cart-wide choices
Role diagnostics table in wp-admin showing exact role keys and user counts
Rate guard prevents third-party “hide other methods when free shipping applies” filters from accidentally removing the Local Pickup option
No server round-trips; all calculations run locally on checkout
Requirements
WordPress 6.4+
PHP 7.4+
WooCommerce 8.0+ (plugin must be active)
WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
flat rate
tiered shipping
category
woocommerce
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested with WP 7.1
Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 6.4 · PHP 7.4
Update activity7 Oct 202627d ago
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