Advanced Shipping Rate Builder – Table Rate, Conditional & Weight Based Shipping

Advanced Shipping Rate Builder is a table rate shipping plugin for WooCommerce. It lets you build exactly the rates your store needs — table rate shipping, conditional shipping, weight based shipping and free shipping — and see what customers will pay before they do.

Set up table rate shipping by cart total, weight or item count. Add conditional shipping rules that only apply to certain products, categories or shipping classes. Charge weight based shipping per kilogram, or a percentage of the order. All from one visual rule builder, with no code.

Every rule reads as a sentence: WHERE (which WooCommerce zones) → WHEN (conditions) → THEN (what to charge) → SHOW AS (the label at checkout). A live plain-language summary restates the whole rule as you edit, and the built-in Simulator runs any test cart through the real engine, showing which rules matched, which were skipped and exactly why.

Why merchants choose it

Most shipping plugins make you guess. This one shows you the answer before your customer sees it: a live checkout preview while you edit, and a simulator that runs your real rules against any test cart. “Why didn’t my rule apply?” stops being a support ticket.

Build rates from

• Flat cost, cost per item, cost per weight, or percentage of the cart subtotal
• Tiered extras — add amounts per quantity, weight or subtotal range (up to 5 tiers)
• A free-shipping threshold on any rule (“free when the cart total reaches …”)

Target rules by

• Your existing WooCommerce shipping zones — no duplicate location setup, ever
• Cart subtotal, cart weight, item quantity
• Products, product categories, shipping classes

Merchant-friendly by design

• Goal-first creation — pick what you want (“free shipping over an amount”, “weight-based rate”, …) and get a working rule to adjust
• Rule simulator — answer “why didn’t my rule apply?” in seconds, not support tickets
• Free-shipping progress bar on cart and checkout (“Add €12.50 more for free shipping”), classic and block carts alike
• Clear resolution: show all matching rates (customer picks) or highest-priority only — stated in plain words on the dashboard
• Rules never break checkout: a misconfigured rule is skipped and flagged in the dashboard, never fatal

Lightweight & modern

• Rules live in one indexed table — no post-meta bloat, one query per checkout calculation
• Zero frontend assets unless the progress bar is shown
• HPOS compatible, works with classic and Block cart/checkout
• REST API and WP-CLI (wp wpactpro-sr rules …) included

Pro

The free plugin does everything above. Advanced Shipping Rate Builder Pro adds conditions for customer role (wholesale and B2B pricing), date window (seasonal and holiday rates), day of week, time window and coupon applied, plus OR condition groups so one rule can match several different carts.

Every rule you build in the free version keeps working if a licence lapses — you can still edit, simplify and delete them.