<p>Take control of your shipping costs — the simple way.</p>
<p>WooCommerce’s built-in shipping methods don’t support weight limits, leaving stores vulnerable to costly mistakes when heavy items trigger free or flat-rate shipping. Simple Weight Based Shipping fixes that with a lightweight, plug-and-play solution designed for real-world merchants.</p>
<p><strong>Key Features</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Add weight limits to existing WooCommerce shipping methods (Flat Rate, Free Shipping, Local Pickup)</li>
<li>Set minimum and maximum weight thresholds per shipping instance</li>
<li>Auto-hide methods when the cart weight doesn’t meet your rules</li>
<li>Optional max size limit based on the longest item side</li>
<li>No new shipping methods — extends what you already use</li>
<li>Set default weights and dimensions for products with missing data</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Cost & Profit Protection</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Prevent shipping losses by hiding costly options for heavy orders</li>
<li>Stop free shipping abuse on oversized items</li>
<li>No more manual review — orders automatically follow your rules</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Better Customer Experience</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Show accurate shipping options upfront</li>
<li>Eliminate surprise shipping fees at checkout</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Operational Efficiency</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Works seamlessly with your existing setup — no disruption</li>
<li>Configure per shipping zone and method for total flexibility</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Risk Mitigation</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Prevent misuse of shipping methods</li>
<li>Avoid carrier penalties for oversized or overweight packages</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Easy Setup</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Guided visual setup with screenshots and tutorials</li>
<li>Low maintenance — set once and forget</li>
<li>Simple, clean interface — no enterprise bloat</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Why It’s Different</strong></p>
<p>Most shipping plugins are bloated or overly complex. Simple Weight Based Shipping focuses on one thing and does it exceptionally well: giving merchants precise weight control with zero friction.</p>
<p>Built for small to medium WooCommerce stores that need practical, cost-effective protection from shipping losses. Not enterprise overhead.</p>
<p>Lightweight. Affordable. Effective.</p>
<p>Deliver enterprise-grade control without enterprise complexity or cost.</p>
<p><img class="size-large wp-image-18734005859668" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot-2025-10-17-at-09.40.27.jpg?w=980" alt="" width="980" height="472" /></p>

Simple Weight Based Shipping

<p>Simple Weight Based Shipping lets WooCommerce stores show or hide shipping methods based on total cart weight and a single max item size, with sensible defaults, controls, and solid compatibility.</p>

<p><strong>Conditional Shipping and Payments</strong> gives you a streamlined way to restrict the shipping methods, payment gateways, and shipping destinations available to your customers.</p>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li>Make <strong>free shipping</strong> available <strong>per product</strong>, <strong>category</strong>, or <strong>shipping class</strong>.</li>
<li>Restrict shipping methods and live rates based on <strong>package weight</strong>, <strong>item count</strong>, or <strong>cart total</strong>.</li>
<li>Prevent individual products or categories from being shipped to restricted <strong>countries</strong>, <strong>states</strong>, and <strong>zip codes</strong>.</li>
<li>Limit shipping and payment options to specific customers and <strong>customer roles</strong>, such as <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-memberships/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">membership</a> holders or wholesale customers.</li>
<li>Use specific payment gateways for purchasing <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-subscriptions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">subscriptions</a>, or offer free shipping with subscription renewals.</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Restrict Shipping Methods</h2>
<p>Create rules to disable or hide <strong>shipping methods</strong> conditionally:</p>
<ul>
<li>Per product, category or shipping class.</li>
<li>By weight, item quantity, or cart total.</li>
<li>When activating a coupon code.</li>
<li>When purchasing <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-subscriptions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">subscriptions</a>.</li>
<li>For individual customers, customer roles or <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-memberships/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">site members</a>.</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Restrict Payment Gateways</h2>
<p>Conditionally restrict or hide <strong>payment gateways</strong>:</p>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li>By shipping method, country, state or postcode.</li>
<li>Depending on the chosen billing country.</li>
<li>Based on order total or currency.</li>
<li>By product, product category or shipping class.</li>
<li>When paying for <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-subscriptions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">subscriptions</a>.</li>
<li>For individual customers, customer roles, or <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-memberships/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">members</a> of your site.</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Create Shipping Country and State Restrictions</h2>
<p>Create rules to prevent customer orders from being shipped to specific shipping countries or states in order to comply with customs import regulations, or shipping carrier terms. Build per product shipping rules, or custom conditional rules based on:</p>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li>Product categories or shipping classes in the cart.</li>
<li>Cart or shipping package totals.</li>
<li>Customer roles or <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-memberships/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">memberships</a>.</li>
</ul>
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<p>Want to learn more? Check out the <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-conditional-shipping-and-payments/#reference" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">documentation</a> for a complete list of all conditions available in the extension.</p>
<h2>Stay Focused on What Matters</h2>
<p>Struggling with scattered snippets and plugins with limited functionality? It’s never too late to clean up your site!</p>
<p>Conditional Shipping and Payments allows you to create both <strong>global</strong> or <strong>per product</strong> restrictions. No matter which approach you choose, the extension keeps your site clean and helps you quickly track down every single shipping and payment method restriction on your site.</p>
<p>Running a high-traffic store? The extension leverages all caching optimizations built into WooCommerce and loads only the components needed to evaluate the rules you’ve built. This ensures that Conditional Shipping and Payments will never slow you down.</p>
<p>We’ve written over 2000 automated tests to ensure that all features will work as expected, update after update, so you can stay focused on what matters the most: Your business — not your plugins!</p>
<h2>Customize and Extend It</h2>
<p>Conditional Shipping and Payments comes with more than 10 integrations with popular extensions, such as <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-subscriptions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Subscriptions</a>, <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-memberships/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Memberships</a> and <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/gift-cards/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gift Cards</a> — and the list keeps growing!</p>
<p>Need to build a custom condition? Use actions and filters to <strong>add new conditions</strong>, <strong>customize</strong> the extension, or even build <strong>new types of cart/checkout restrictions</strong> from scratch.</p>
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<p>Looking for a way to create <strong>weight based shipping</strong> rules in WooCommerce? Don’t forget to check out <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/table-rate-shipping/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">WooCommerce Table Rate Shipping</a>.Wondering which extension is right for you?</p>
<p>Use <strong>Conditional Shipping and Payments</strong> to conditionally enable existing shipping methods and exclude live rates supplied by courier APIs, such as <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/ups-shipping-method/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">UPS</a>.</p>
<p>Use <strong>Table Rate Shipping</strong> to create rule-based shipping rates in existing shipping zones.</p>
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<div class="woo-sc-box normal">Conditional Shipping and Payments is compatible with the new <a href="https://woocommerce.com/checkout-blocks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cart and Checkout blocks</a> — a customizable, conversion-optimized checkout experience available in WooCommerce core.</div>

Conditional Shipping and Payments

<p>Use conditional logic to restrict the shipping and payment options available on your store.</p>

Simple Weight Based Shipping vs Conditional Shipping and Payments