Free Shipping Excluder for WooCommerce vs PW WooCommerce Exclude Free Shipping

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 Use the Dedicated WP.org Support Forum Contact the plugin author Like this plugin? Please share your love with a review and rating

Let’s say your customer has the following products in their cart: Paper Airplane Box of playing cards A Grand Piano You offer “free shipping for orders over $50” but you specify that some restrictions apply. Naturally the Grand Piano will cost quite a bit to ship so you don’t want to offer free shipping on this order. With this plugin, the Grand Piano can be marked “Exclude Free Shipping” which means the user will pay for shipping of this unique item. See screenshots for a visual example. Works for Simple Products, Variable Products, and even Variations! I have many products that I need to update. How can I do this quickly? This plugin is compatible with our PW WooCommerce Bulk Edit Pro plugin. Quickly update the products that should be excluded from the Free Shipping offer. Like this free plugin? Check out our most popular plugin PW WooCommerce Gift Cards. We also offer many other Free and Premium Plugins to help your WooCommerce store!