WooCommerce Shipping Method Customization & Checkout Optimization

When a client came to us with a confusing WooCommerce checkout experience, we delivered a smart and seamless solution.

🔧 The Challenge

The client needed full control over the order and behavior of shipping methods on their WooCommerce store. Specifically:

• “Local Pickup” should always appear last in the shipping options.

• Custom shipping rates for large items like Pool Tables and Other Large Items needed to apply correctly across multiple shipping zones.

• Mixed-cart scenarios (e.g., Pool Table + Other Item) were causing errors or missing rates at checkout.

🧠 Our Solution

We performed a deep dive into WooCommerce’s shipping logic and developed a custom PHP solution to:

• Reorder all shipping methods, ensuring plugin-generated methods appear first and “Local Pickup” appears last.

• Fix a WooCommerce database inconsistency that was silently breaking rates in secondary zones.

• Enforce per-order rate rules, preventing shipping conflicts when incompatible classes were combined in the cart.

✅ Results

• A clearer, more logical checkout that prevents confusion.

• Full support for complex shipping rules without breaking the experience.

• No extra plugins — just clean, efficient code that keeps the site fast and maintainable.

Whether you’re dealing with bulky items, local delivery quirks, or plugin conflicts, we can help you make WooCommerce work for your business.