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.

Features

Product-level exclusion – Exclude individual products from free shipping calculations via a simple checkbox in the product shipping settings
Category-level exclusion – Exclude entire product categories, automatically applying the exclusion to all products within those categories
Disable free shipping entirely – Completely disable free shipping for the entire order if a specific product is in the cart, regardless of order total
Flexible control – Use either method or both together to match your specific business needs
Seamless integration – Works with WooCommerce’s native free shipping method
No configuration complexity – Simple checkboxes, no complicated settings

How It Works

When a customer adds items to their cart, the plugin calculates the free shipping eligibility by:
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.
2. Checking each product for exclusion settings (both product-level and category-level)
3. Summing only the eligible products’ costs
4. Comparing the total against your free shipping threshold

Excluded products can still be purchased and shipped – they just don’t count towards the minimum amount needed for free shipping.

Use Cases

Exclude gift cards from free shipping calculations
Exclude digital products or services
Prevent free shipping entirely for bulky, heavy, or high-shipping-cost items
Exclude promotional items or samples
Exclude low-margin products
Exclude entire categories like “Accessories” or “Downloads”

Contribution

You are welcome to contribute to this free and open source extension:

Source Code:
https://github.com/nagpai/free-shipping-excluder
Report Issues / Wishlists:
https://github.com/nagpai/free-shipping-excluder/issues

Support

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