Woo Custom Shipping Plugin

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YeOldeOke

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I need a Woocommerce shipping plugin that will calculate cart subtotal for specific product categories in a mixed cart and grant free shipping if the specified categories add up to a certain minimum.

Can't find anything that does this so starting to look at a custom(ized) plugin.

Can anyone help?
 
Wasn't thinking I'd get it free, thought someone here may do it but thanks I'll go look at Fiverr.
 
I wouldn’t do Fiverr. It often results in insecure, unreadable, unmaintainable, unsupportable, unreadable and unscalable code. Anyone can dev, it takes a decent dev to produce decent code. I’ve learnt this the (very) hard and expensive way.
 
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I wouldn’t do Fiverr. It often results in insecure, unreadable, unmaintainable, unsupportable, unreadable and unscalable code. Anyone can dev, it takes a decent dev to produce decent code. I’ve learnt this the (very) hard and expensive way.
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He's looking for an "easy" solution to a problem probably offered by a plug in/add on. There's virtually no coding involved. Shopify is vast and many a times for a small store it's a matter of figuring out things. The coding you usually do is customizing the theme.

All I'm saying is he should seek someone who knows it whether it's Fiverr or Upwork. Buy a gig and specify your requirements. Instead of posting here and waiting for a reply that will come in 2 months.
 
Ja well no fine. I posted a request in Fiverr and as I feared 9.564 million people responded. It's like a feeding frenzy of Piranhas in there. :oops: Not holier than thou, I did some work on another such site, forget the name, many years ago myself and it can get messy.

Problem is, who's to know who knows anything there and who's just desperately trying to survive by coding.
A couple years ago I spent R30 000 with a Cape Town 'SEO agency' to drive my site, and it was a depressing experience. They knew less than I do about SEO - I've done SEO, programming, website dev etc quite a bit. Generally do everything myself but one oke can only do so much in a day. They actually dropped my rankings, and no, not a temporary drop. I had to fix their mess myself.

I may be wrong, but with my rudimentary understanding of PHP coding this plugin should not really be much for someone that knows what they're doing. I could probably figure it out myself if I want to wrestle with it for 2 weeks, but I simply don't have the time.

So Fiverr is a crap-shoot, and how do I ascertain who can actually do a decent job?
 
I'm using woo shipping zones currently, need something that sits on top of it that says Cats a,b,c > R1000 or Cats a,y,z > R1500 = free shipping. That's it, doesn't have to be a whole new shipping plugin.

Running woo 3.4.2 on Wordpress 4.9.8 because I don't currently have the time to upgrade with all the associated potential hassles, so must be backward compatible with that.
 
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I'm using woo shipping zones currently, need something that sits on top of it that says Cats a,b,c > R1000 or Cats a,y,z > R1500 = free shipping. That's it, doesn't have to be a whole new shipping plugin.

Running woo 3.4.2 on Wordpress 4.9.8 because I don't currently have the time to upgrade with all the associated potential hassles, so must be backward compatible with that.
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I have a few things I need to finish quickly then I will take a look and see if I can help. :)
 
You can look at the Wholesale and B2B plugin. It is a relative new plugin, but it seems to set out and do what you want to achieve.

wordpress.org

B2BKing — Ultimate WooCommerce B2B and Wholesale Plugin — Wholesale Prices, Bulk Order Form & More

B2BKing is the complete solution for running a Wholesale, B2B or B2B + B2C hybrid store with WooCommerce.
wordpress.org wordpress.org

There is a paid version on CodeCanyon. Barn2, IIRC, also develop suitable plugins, there are other plugins, but I haven't used them. There is also the Wholesale Suit plugin, but the developer's update cycle is too slow and it being a renewable sub doesn't sit well with me. When you sell a plugin 'as a service' you need to be proactive.

I have done a wholesale implementation or two and the above worked well.

You still need to do custom input, these plugins don't work like magic, and sometimes, when there are theme or plugin incompatibilities custom coding is required.

And, no, I only do this internally. Designing and developing websites are not my business.
 
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That's an interesting plugin for my next project, thanks, but even if it does what I need now, which I doubt, it is overkill by a gigantic margin for what I need right away.

I simply want to exclude certain categories from the free shipping calculation, or set their trigger level higher than other categories in the cart.

For instance if you have R1000 worth of juice in the the cart, mixed with other hardware or not it grants free shipping, if the juice is R900 and there's R400 hardware, no free shipping. It's a case of adding up the category value to trigger free shipping.

Should there be R900 juice and R600 hardware it should grant free shipping. In other words the overall total is above the overall trigger set.

Basically, it doesn't set shipping costs, Woo zones do that, but instead of a universal R1000 = free shipping it checks per category bundle.

There are all kinds on plugins available but none do that simple calculation. I have one that splits the cart by category bundle, but then wants to set shipping costs separately for each bundle.

It must remain one cart with one shipment and one shipping cost, just the free shipping trigger must vary according to cart contents.

Something like If category a+b+c total > R1000 OR cart subtotal >R1500 = free shipping. That's it.
 
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I'd imagine, I could be wrong of course, it should be a few lines of code in the theme functions.php, which I can add myself, shouldn't need a whole plugin. I just need the coding. Which I am willing to pay for of course.

Ain't it sad about our rugby :crying: Feels nearly like our loss to Japan.
 
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Hey, I was developing this as an integration for WooCommerce, but if you're happy with not having a front end to manage the rules, it's ready to go.
 
Happy as a pig in. Thanks @SaucePlz for sorting me out in such a speedy and pleasant manner! May your seed be blessed to produce hundreds, nay, thousands of little SaucePlzes!
 
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