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WooCommerce comes with a few shipping methods and with plugins, you can add more. So, you can have literally unlimited shipping options. Having multiple shipping methods seems to be a good thing since it gives the customers more options. However, if you know that your customers will use only a certain shipping methods, having more than that can cause confusion. In this post, we are going to find out how to disable a shipping method in Woocommerce so your customers will have only the methods that suit them.
How To Disable A Shipping Method In Woocommerce
First, go to Woocommerce->Settings and click on Shipping.
In the first screen, you can see the list of shipping zones. If you don’t know what shipping zones are, they are the area you can define to apply different shipping policies. This is a very nice option of WooCommerce. For example, you want to apply free shipping in Asia and a flat rate $10 in Europe, you can add two zones Asia and Europe and apply the appropriate shipping methods to those zones.
Now, one zone can have multiple shipping method. For example, my customers in Asia will see this when they checkout:
Pretty confusing, right? Now, I would like to remove the Free shipping option, here is what I’ll do:
- Click on the shipping zone I want to modify its shipping methods, in my case, I will click on Asia.
As you can see, all the options are listed in the next screen. To disable any shipping method, simply click on the toggle button to turn it off. Here, I’m going to turn off free shipping. Don’t forget to click on Save changes.
If I go and check the checkout page now, the Free shipping method is no longer available:
That’s it! Now you know how to enable and disable a shipping method for a particular zone in Woocommerce. Thanks for reading and if you have any comments, please leave it below.
