The core idea

WooCommerce normally shows every available shipping method from your configured Shipping Zones to every customer. Shipping Gateway Per Product sits between those zones and the checkout, filtering the list down to only the methods you've allowed for the products in the cart.

The plugin does not create shipping methods or replace your zones. It reads the methods you already have and decides which ones are visible for a given cart.

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Where rules live

Rules can be set at three levels, depending on your plan:

When a product has no rule assigned, the plugin applies no filter for that product, which means WooCommerce falls back to showing all methods from the matching zone.

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How the checkout filtering works

1. A customer adds one or more products to the cart.
2. At checkout, the plugin checks each product for an assigned rule (product-level first, then category, then tag).
3. Only shipping methods explicitly allowed across all products in the cart are shown.
4. If no methods are valid for the entire cart, the plugin can fall back to zone defaults — or, with Premium, you choose how the conflict is resolved.

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Free vs. Premium capabilities

The free version handles per-product rules and respects WooCommerce Shipping Zones. That covers most single-product-type stores.

The premium version adds:

• Category-based and tag-based rules
• Advanced cart logic for mixed carts (multiple products with different rules)
• Conflict resolution: show common methods, force cheapest, force most expensive, or let the customer choose
• Include/Exclude logic
• Checkout optimization features
• Priority support

If your store sells products that ship very differently from each other — for example, oversized furniture alongside small accessories — the Premium mixed-cart logic is where the real value is.

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For step-by-step assignment instructions, head to Assigning Shipping Methods to a Product.