If you sell a mix of small and large products on WooCommerce you know the problem: you offer free shipping over a threshold, but when a customer buys a bulky, expensive item the system zeroes out the shipping cost — and you lose money on the freight.
Solucom Shipping Control fixes this with three simple behaviours:
- Disables free shipping whenever the cart contains a product assigned to your chosen “bulky” shipping class.
- Hides paid rates when free shipping is legitimately available, so the cart stays clean and the customer is not confused.
- Shows a customisable notice on the product page of bulky items (title, message, position and colours — all editable from the settings, no code).
The plugin is lightweight (single file, no external services, no tracking) and fully translatable. An Italian translation is maintained on translate.wordpress.org and is delivered automatically to Italian sites as a language pack.
How it decides what is “bulky”
You create a WooCommerce shipping class (e.g. “Bulky”), copy its slug into the plugin settings, and assign that class to your oversized products. That is the only thing the plugin keys off — you stay in full control.
Screenshots
The settings screen with the quick configuration guide and the customisable notice options.
The bulky-shipping notice as it appears on a product page.
The WooCommerce shipping classes screen with the bulky class whose slug the plugin keys off.
The Flat Rate setup: cost for the bulky class, zero for no class, calculation per most expensive class.
The product Shipping tab with the bulky shipping class assigned.