Advanced Shipping Rate Builder – Table Rate, Conditional & Weight Based Shipping

Advanced Shipping Rate Builder is a table rate shipping plugin for WooCommerce. It lets you build exactly the rates your store needs — table rate shipping, conditional shipping, weight based shipping, flat rate shipping and free shipping — and see what customers will pay before they do.

Try the live demo — a full WooCommerce store with the plugin installed. No signup, nothing to install.

Set up table rate shipping by cart total, weight or item count. Add conditional shipping rules that only apply to certain products, categories or shipping classes. Charge weight based shipping per kilogram, a flat rate per order, a cost per item, or a percentage of the order. All from one visual rule builder, with no code.

Every rule reads as a sentence: WHERE (which WooCommerce zones) → WHEN (conditions) → THEN (what to charge) → SHOW AS (the label at checkout). A live plain-language summary restates the whole rule as you edit, and the built-in Simulator runs any test cart through the real engine, showing which rules matched, which were skipped and exactly why.

Why merchants choose it

Most shipping plugins make you guess. This one shows you the answer before your customer sees it: a live checkout preview while you edit, and a simulator that runs your real rules against any test cart. “Why didn’t my rule apply?” stops being a support ticket.

Shipping scenarios you can build

• Free shipping over an amount — free once the cart reaches $50, with a progress bar telling shoppers how much more to add
• Weight based shipping — $5 up to 5 kg, $9 to 20 kg, $15 above, as a proper weight table
• Flat rate shipping per order — one price for everything, or one price per item
• Bulky item shipping — a higher rate whenever the cart contains a shipping class or category you choose
• Conditional shipping by product — a rate that only appears when a specific product is in the cart
• Percentage-based shipping — charge shipping as a percentage of the order subtotal
• Tiered shipping rates — add an amount for every extra 5 kg, 10 items or $100 of subtotal
• Local pickup or courier choice — offer several rates at once and let the customer choose
• One rate only — hide the other shipping methods when your rule applies

Build rates from

• Flat cost, cost per item, cost per weight, or percentage of the cart subtotal
• Tiered extras — add amounts per quantity, weight or subtotal range (up to 5 tiers)
• A free-shipping threshold on any rule (“free when the cart total reaches …”)

Target rules by

• Your existing WooCommerce shipping zones — no duplicate location setup, ever
• Cart subtotal, cart weight, item quantity
• Products, product categories, shipping classes

Merchant-friendly by design

• Goal-first creation — pick what you want (“free shipping over an amount”, “weight-based rate”, …) and get a working rule to adjust
• Rule simulator — answer “why didn’t my rule apply?” in seconds, not support tickets
• Free-shipping progress bar on cart and checkout (“Add €12.50 more for free shipping”), classic and block carts alike
• Clear resolution: show all matching rates (customer picks) or highest-priority only — stated in plain words on the dashboard
• Rules never break checkout: a misconfigured rule is skipped and flagged in the dashboard, never fatal

Lightweight & modern

• Rules live in one indexed table — no post-meta bloat, one query per checkout calculation
• Zero frontend assets unless the progress bar is shown
• HPOS compatible, works with classic and Block cart/checkout
• REST API and WP-CLI (wp wpactpro-sr rules …) included

Free vs Pro

Everything in the free plugin, with no limits on how many rules you create:

• Cost types: flat rate, per item, per weight, percentage of subtotal
• Tiered rates by quantity, weight or subtotal — up to 5 tiers per rule
• Free-shipping threshold on any rule, and the free-shipping progress bar
• Conditions: cart subtotal, cart weight, item quantity, cart contains product, cart contains category, cart contains shipping class
• Targeting by your existing WooCommerce shipping zones
• The visual rule builder, the plain-language rule summary and the live checkout preview
• The Simulator, showing which rules matched a test cart and why the rest did not
• Hide other shipping methods, rule priority and resolution modes
• REST API, WP-CLI, HPOS and Block cart/checkout support

Advanced Shipping Rate Builder Pro adds eleven more conditions and five workflow features:

• Destination postcode and destination city — charge differently inside a single zone, so “£5 to mainland UK, £15 to the Highlands” no longer needs a second shipping zone. Same wildcard (CB2*) and range (90210...99000) syntax as WooCommerce zones.
• Dimensional weight, cart volume and longest side in cart — price bulky-but-light parcels the way couriers actually bill them.
• Customer role — wholesale and B2B shipping rates.
• Specific customer — one named account’s own negotiated rate.
• Date range, day of week and time of day — seasonal, holiday and cut-off-time rates.
• Coupon applied — a shipping rate that responds to a promotion.
• OR condition groups — one rule that matches several different carts.
• Shipping decisions log — open any order and see which rule set the rate, and why every other rule did not apply. Answers “why was I charged this?” without reproducing the cart.
• Shadow mode — run a price change against real traffic, recorded but charging nobody, before it reaches a customer.
• Surcharge rules — add a handling fee on top of every rate instead of competing with them as another option.
• Rule warnings — told when a rule can never apply because another always wins first, or when it targets a shipping zone that has been deleted.

Every rule you build in the free version keeps working if a licence lapses — you can still edit, simplify and delete them.