--- title: Basic Plugin Overview – Advanced Shipping For WooCommerce url: "https://rextheme.com/docs/advanced-shipping-plugin-overview/" updated: "2025-10-23" category: Getting Started --- # Basic Plugin Overview – Advanced Shipping For WooCommerce Here’s a quick plugin overview of **Advanced Shipping For Woocommerce.** ## **Advanced shipping for WooCommerce Plugin Overview** After installing and activating the plugin and the License, on the WordPress dashboard click on **Advanced Shipping**. [![Basic Plugin Overview – Advanced Shipping For WooCommerce 1](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Shipping-Zone-scaled.png)](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Shipping-Zone-scaled.png) Then on the sub-modules you’ll see 3 options. Click on the Shipping Zone. Then you’ll be redirected to the WooCommerce Shipping Zone Settings page. Configure the Zone and Click on the **Add Shipping Method** button and on the popup you’ll get the **Advanced Shipping** Method listed. [![Basic Plugin Overview – Advanced Shipping For WooCommerce 2](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Advanced-Shipping-1-scaled.png)](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Advanced-Shipping-1-scaled.png) Then select the “Advanced Shipping” in the “Create Shipping Method” Popup and click **continue** [![Basic Plugin Overview – Advanced Shipping For WooCommerce 3](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/1.png)](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/1.png) After Selecting the Advanced Shipping from the popup. Click on the **Edit**to set the shipping rules. [![Basic Plugin Overview – Advanced Shipping For WooCommerce 4](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Shipping-configuration-scaled.png)](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Shipping-configuration-scaled.png) ## Advanced Shipping Features Here you’ll get all the advanced shipping features available by the Advanced Shipping plugin. ### Free Shipping First, let’s see how you can set up Free Shipping using Advanced Shipping For WooCommerce. In this you get two options in the Free Shipping Requirements. One is **Minimum Order Value** and the other one is **Minimum Item Quantity.** - **Minimum Order Value**: This requirement means Free Shipping will be applied based on Total Cart Value - ****Minimum Item Quantity****: This requirement means Free Shipping will be applied based on Item Quantity in the Cart [![Basic Plugin Overview – Advanced Shipping For WooCommerce 5](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Free-shipping-settings.png)](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Free-shipping-settings.png) > For example, If you set up “**Minimum Order Value**” and set up threshold of 250$ then your customers must spend minimum of 250$ on your store to get the free shipping. > > > > For example, If you set up “**Minimum item quantity**” and set up threshold of 10, then your customers must have minimum of 10 items in their cart to get the free shipping. ### Tax With this option, you can set up whether you want to enter shipping costs with or without taxes. Following are the settings for that, **Tax Status** You’ll get two options here, - **None:** If you select **None,**then **Advanced Shipping**won’t use the Tax settings you have set up on your WooCommerce store. - **Taxable:** If you select the **Taxable**option, then **Advanced Shipping** will use the tax rates that’s defined in your WooCommerce. (Example: Standard, Reduced, Zero) Go to WooCommerce > Settings > Tax to check this. [![Basic Plugin Overview – Advanced Shipping For WooCommerce 6](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Tax.png)](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Tax.png) **Tax Included In Shipping Cost** You’ll get two options here, - **Shipping Cost Inclusive:** If you select this, then the shipping calculation rules you create in the following options will be inclusive to tax. - ****Shipping Cost Exclusive**:** If you select this, then the shipping calculation rules you create in the following options will not include tax. [![Basic Plugin Overview – Advanced Shipping For WooCommerce 7](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Tax-Included.png)](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Tax-Included.png) ### Cost Calculation Add different conditions on how you want the shipping cost to be calculated. ### Rule Calculation [![Basic Plugin Overview – Advanced Shipping For WooCommerce 8](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Rule-calculation.png)](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Rule-calculation.png) - **Sum:**If there are multiple Shipping rules/condition added, then the shipping cost will be the sum of all the shipping costs for the individual rule - **Highest:** If there are multiple Shipping rules/condition added, then only the individual shipping cost, which is the highest, will be considered as the shipping cost - **Lowest:** If there are multiple Shipping rules/condition added, then only the individual shipping cost, which is the lowest, will be considered as the shipping cost ### Cart Calculation [![Basic Plugin Overview – Advanced Shipping For WooCommerce 9](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Cart-Calculation.png)](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Cart-Calculation.png) - **Package Value:** If you select **Package Value**, you can set different options for physical products and online products. if the product is physical, then a shipping charge will be added, if the product is a virtual/downloadable product then it will be excluded from the shipping charge. - **Cart Value:** If you select **Cart Value,** all the items in your customer cart will be counted no matter whether the products are physical or virtual. ### Advanced Option In this option, you may select whether you want to show the shipping calculations to only the logged-in users or not. [![Show shipping only for logged in users](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-22-at-10.14.08 AM-scaled.webp)](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-22-at-10.14.08 AM-scaled.webp) ### Condition Type You may set up different conditional rules for creating different shipping strategies using the **Advanced Shipping For WooCommerce** plugin. You can create them from scratch or you can use the ready made scenarios. [![Basic Plugin Overview – Advanced Shipping For WooCommerce 10](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Condition-rule-advance-shipping-scaled.png)](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Condition-rule-advance-shipping-scaled.png) **Use ready-made Scenarios** Click on the **Use ready-made Scenarios** if you want to use ready made Shipping Rules/Conditions [![Basic Plugin Overview – Advanced Shipping For WooCommerce 11](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/2.png)](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/2.png) Currently we have a Ready Made Shipping Rule Table based on Price [![Basic Plugin Overview – Advanced Shipping For WooCommerce 12](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/3.png)](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/3.png) If you click on Add condition rule, In the Condition type, you’ll get **4 Categories of options** available to select. **Cart**, **Product**, **Time** **and Destination,** **User.** [![Basic Plugin Overview – Advanced Shipping For WooCommerce 13](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Advanced-shipping-options.png)](https://rextheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Advanced-shipping-options.png) Now, that you have an overview of this plugin, give it a try and see for yourself that our Advanced Shipping is the only Shipping plugin that you need!