Exclude specific products or categories from the free shipping threshold, or disable free shipping if specific products are in the cart.

Nagesh Pai

<p>Free Shipping Excluder for WooCommerce gives you granular control over how products affect your free shipping eligibility. You can exclude individual products or entire categories from counting towards your free shipping minimum amount, or completely disable free shipping for the entire order if a specific product is added to the cart. This is perfect for stores that sell items like gift cards, services, promotional products, or heavy/bulky items that shouldn’t qualify for free shipping.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Product-level exclusion</strong> – Exclude individual products from free shipping calculations via a simple checkbox in the product shipping settings</li>
<li><strong>Category-level exclusion</strong> – Exclude entire product categories, automatically applying the exclusion to all products within those categories</li>
<li><strong>Disable free shipping entirely</strong> – Completely disable free shipping for the entire order if a specific product is in the cart, regardless of order total</li>
<li><strong>Flexible control</strong> – Use either method or both together to match your specific business needs</li>
<li><strong>Seamless integration</strong> – Works with WooCommerce’s native free shipping method</li>
<li><strong>No configuration complexity</strong> – Simple checkboxes, no complicated settings</li>
</ul>
<h4>How It Works</h4>
<p>When a customer adds items to their cart, the plugin calculates the free shipping eligibility by:<br />
1. Checking if any product in the cart has “Disable free shipping if in cart” enabled. If so, free shipping is immediately disabled for the entire order.<br />
2. Checking each product for exclusion settings (both product-level and category-level)<br />
3. Summing only the eligible products’ costs<br />
4. Comparing the total against your free shipping threshold</p>
<p>Excluded products can still be purchased and shipped – they just don’t count towards the minimum amount needed for free shipping.</p>
<h4>Use Cases</h4>
<ul>
<li>Exclude gift cards from free shipping calculations</li>
<li>Exclude digital products or services</li>
<li>Prevent free shipping entirely for bulky, heavy, or high-shipping-cost items</li>
<li>Exclude promotional items or samples</li>
<li>Exclude low-margin products</li>
<li>Exclude entire categories like “Accessories” or “Downloads”</li>
</ul>
<h3>Contribution</h3>
<p>You are welcome to contribute to this free and open source extension:</p>
<ul>
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<p><strong>Source Code:</strong><br />
<a href="https://github.com/nagpai/free-shipping-excluder" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/nagpai/free-shipping-excluder</a></p>
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<p><strong>Report Issues / Wishlists:</strong><br />
<a href="https://github.com/nagpai/free-shipping-excluder/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/nagpai/free-shipping-excluder/issues</a></p>
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</ul>
<h3>Support</h3>
<ul>
<li>Use the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/free-shipping-excluder/" rel="ugc">Dedicated WP.org Support Forum</a></li>
<li><a href="https://nagpai.blog/contact-me/" rel="nofollow ugc">Contact the plugin author</a></li>
<li>Like this plugin? Please share your love with a <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/free-shipping-excluder/reviews/#new-post" rel="ugc">review and rating</a></li>
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Free Shipping Excluder for WooCommerce


A very simple plugin that adds a setting checkbox to the product edit pages in WooCommerce. 



I am glad that it is not overloaded with shiny settings pages and weird notifications.



Thank you!


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