How to Display a Free Shipping Progress Bar in WooCommerce

A Free Shipping Progress Bar motivates customers to increase their cart value by showing exactly how much more they need to spend before qualifying for free shipping.

The Dotstore Flat Rate Shipping Plugin displays this information automatically on your WooCommerce store.

In The Article

  1. Why use a Free Shipping Progress Bar?
  2. Configuration steps
  3. Real examples
    1. Example 1: Free shipping on 5 or more items
  4. Expected outcome

Why use a Free Shipping Progress Bar?

  • Increase average order value.
  • Reduce cart abandonment.
  • Encourage customers to add more products.
  • Improve the shopping experience.

Configuration steps

  1. Open your shipping method.
  2. Enable Allow Free Shipping.
  3. Configure your Free Shipping rule.
  4. Enable Free Shipping Progress Bar.

  1. Customize the progress message.
  2. Save the shipping method.
  3. Visit the cart page and verify the progress bar.

Two real examples

Example 1

Free Shipping Threshold: $100

Customer Cart Total: $75

Displayed message with progress bar:

Spend $25 more to unlock Free Shipping.

Expected outcome

Customers always know how close they are to qualifying for free shipping, encouraging them to increase their order value before checkout.

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