How to offer Free Shipping for some products and Flat Rate for the rest?
The easiest way to offer Free Shipping on some products but charge a Flat Rate for others, is to use Shipping Classes. CuteMesh.com has a variety of shipping classes for you to use. In this case, Free Shipping and Regular Shipping will do.
How to offer different shipping costs for different products:
- Log into your ↗ Vendor dashboard.
- Add your products to their appropriate shipping classes by editing the product listing, then selecting a shipping class from the drop-down menu in the “Shipping and Tax” section.
- Then navigate to your ↗ Shipping settings.
- Click on a shipping method to edit it.
- Ensure that the “Cost” field located underneath “Tax status” is blank.
- Set the Free Shipping class cost to 0 * [qty]. This means that no matter how many products from that class are added to the cart, the shipping cost will not increase.
- Then set the Regular Shipping class cost to a cost of your choice, using a fixed number or a sum for calculating the cost. For example, 10 * [qty]. This means that shipping will cost ₵10 per product in the Regular shipping class.
- Set the Calculation Type to Per Class: Charge shipping for each shipping class individually.
- Click Save Changes.
According to this example, if you have one product from each shipping class in your shopping cart, the total shipping cost will be ₵10 – ₵0 for one free shipping class product and ₵10 for one regular shipping class product. For more info on shipping classes, read this article.