Grouped Shipping

Hello Tirwin,

Thank you for contacting WooCommerce support.

I understand you want to set up shipping so that prints are grouped in parcels of three for £3, while original art pieces have separate shipping costs, like £10. You also want the total shipping to combine both correctly, such as £13 for 3 prints and 1 original.

To achieve this, I recommend using the Table Rate Shipping for WooCommerce plugin. It allows you to define detailed shipping rules based on product quantity, shipping class, and more, which should match your requirements.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Best regards,

Hi Tirwin,

Thanks for getting back to us. I completely understand wanting to keep costs down, especially early on, that makes perfect sense.

At the moment, WooCommerce core doesn’t offer built-in support for grouping items into parcels the way you’ve described (e.g., grouping 3 prints per £3), and unfortunately I’m not aware of a free plugin that supports this kind of flexible logic out of the box.

You might consider reaching out to a developer who can help build a lightweight custom solution tailored to your store, or you could post in our WooCommerce Community Slack to see if others have found workarounds that fit this use case.

That said, we’d be grateful if you could share your feedback here: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/woocommerce/reviews/#new-post

Thanks again for reaching out!

You can use code like this to display the notice. Only works when using the woocommerce_cart shortcode not cart blocks.

add_action( 'woocommerce_before_cart', 'wpsites_free_shipping_notice' );
add_action( 'woocommerce_before_checkout_form', 'wpsites_free_shipping_notice' );

function wpsites_free_shipping_notice() {
    if ( is_admin() && ! defined( 'DOING_AJAX' ) ) return;

    $min_amount = 200; // Set your free shipping threshold
    $cart_total = WC()->cart->get_displayed_subtotal(); // subtotal excluding shipping
    $remaining = $min_amount - $cart_total;

    if ( $remaining > 0 ) {
        wc_print_notice( sprintf(
            'Spend %s more to get free shipping!',
            wc_price( $remaining )
        ), 'notice' );
    } else {
        wc_print_notice( 'You have qualified for free shipping!', 'success' );
    }
}

Hi @tirwin,

Thanks for sharing your workaround, that’s a clever solution, especially since weight-based shipping isn’t critical for your products. Using weight ranges to group variations sounds like it’s working well for your needs right now

Hi @wordpresssites,

Thank you for the clarification and for sharing your input. I’m confident that both your solution and @tirwin’s will be helpful to others who come across this thread.

Since you’ve both found a workaround for the issue, and if you’re otherwise satisfied with the WooCommerce plugin, we’d be grateful if you could leave us a review here: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/woocommerce/reviews/#new-post.