How to Set Up Quantity-Based Extra Fees for Bulk Orders in WooCommerce

Large orders can drive revenue, but they also increase labor, packaging, and fulfillment costs. This use case helps you recover those hidden costs with a quantity-based processing fee.

Overview

By applying an extra fee when item quantities exceed a threshold, you can balance operational workload and profitability. (Plugin feature: Quantity-Based Fees)

Business Impact Example: Stores implementing this rule have reported up to a 12% increase in profit margins on bulk orders by recapturing processing expenses that would otherwise eat into earnings.

Preconditions

• Extra Fees plugin is installed and activated.
• Product quantities are set and managed in WooCommerce

Steps (Basic Flow)

1. Go to Dashboard > Extra Fees
2. Click Add New Fee
3. Name the fee: Bulk Order Processing Fee
4. Set Fee Type to: Per Item
5. Set Amount to: $1

6. Under Conditions, choose Quantity , then set rule to: greater than 50 units

   

7. Click Save Fees

8. At checkout, orders exceeding 50 items will automatically include the processing fee

   

Alternate Flow

• If an order has 50 or fewer items, the fee will not apply.

Expected Outcome

• You maintain healthy margins on large orders by covering extra labor and processing effort.