Packages Configuration for WooCommerce
Take advantage of a new feature presented in WooCommerce 2.1 and split your cart into packages to offer your users multiple shipping selections. Packages can group products for shipping based on:
- shipping classes
- any product meta field
- product owner (vendor using many WC vendor plugins)
- on a per product basis.
Each package will have its own shipping selection under the shipping section of your cart and checkout forms,
to the customer can choose a different shipping method for each.
This plugin can limit which shipping methods are used for each package.
Using the provided table, match each shipping class to its applicable method, or leave it blank to include them all.
This plugin is designed as a simplistic UI for users who want to ship their cart items in separate packages.
The actual functionality of multiple shipping options is provided through WooCommerce 2.1+ but it has no
GUI out-of-the-box.
WooCommerce does nto handle the progress of shipping packages beyond the selection of shipping methods in the
checkout. This plugin does link the order shipping lines and product lines together usign metadata however,
so custom plugins can make use of those links.
The project is maintained on github, and issues are tracked there:
https://github.com/academe/wc-multiple-packages
The plugin can be downloaded from wordpress.org here:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/packages-configuration-for-woocommerce/
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Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
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- Give a name to your project
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- Download the Installer Package
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- Install & activate the plugin locally
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- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.