Offering free shipping to your customers for purchasing a minimum amount of products can be a great way to boost your revenues. It benefits both the eCommerce store owner and the customer. You get an increase in revenue while the customer gets the order shipped for free.
In this article, we are going to show how you can set up free shipping for orders that are above a certain amount of purchase value. We will be using the WooCommerce Weight Based Shipping plugin for this.
- Install and activate the WooCommerce Weight Based Shipping plugin.
- Navigate to WooCommerce -> Settings and select the Shipping tab. You will find a Weight Based Shipping option, click on it.
- Click on the Add shipping rules button. Now click on the Add new button.
- A Rule Settings popup will appear.
In Label, enter a name for the rule for your own use.
In Title, enter the name of the shipping method.
Scroll down to Conditions -> Order Subtotal. In the above field enter the minimum cart value to activate the free shipping method.
In the Charges section leave everything empty.
Now click on the Close button at the bottom.
Now click on the Save changes button on the Weight Based Shipping page.
Now whenever the cart value is above the minimum purchase amount, the free shipping method will be available for the user to select.