Charge Shipping After Purchase with Woocommerce

Most plugins with authorization will only let you authorize a certain amount.

Perhaps you can use an offline gateway (rename bacs?) to take an ‘order’. Add shipping, then re-invoice the customer to make the payment.

The only part you’d need to work out is how to disable other payment methods during checkout, and enable them later once shipping is added.

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Alternatively, does the shipping just vary per product, or are they external factors that affect costs that need manual input?

There are definitely external factors that affect the costs of shipping. These are large parts and if a customer is buying a few parts it’s hard to tell how many boxes they will need until the product is shipped, or how much it weighs to give an “accurate” number on the shipping. We can probably come close, but with the amount of products on this website, that’s a lot more work than I think it’s worth rather than just capturing a payment then authorizing it at a later time with the shipping amount.

Have any other ideas? I appreciate your help on this!

I think your options are:

1. Quote rather than take payment, or
2. Figure out a fair way to calc shipping based on weights or sizes of products, or charge per product

So, is there a way to take a quote but have the customers payment info for when the company bills them with a receipt? I’ve seen it done before, their competitors website does not show any shipping details and when you put your credit card info in it says they will bill you a receipt with your shipping total attached.

There are gateways that support pre-authorization of payments, but as I mentioned earlier, I’m not sure if you can change the authorized amount. Would need to check per-gateway..

hey nitro56,

i have a similar situation and am wondering how you handled this issue. care to share? thanks!

Same problem here. It seems as though you can do this through the Paypal options by choosing “Authorize” instead of “capture” under payment action. I have tried to set it to “Authorize” but when i try to place the test order afterwards, I (the customer) get an error message that says “This transaction cannot be completed…”. Is that what’s supposed to happen? I figured it would say something like “your card is being authorized” or something?

I too have a similar scenario…did any of you ever get this worked out?

@mike Jolley:

Would this work?

Enable COD and rename the payment method “Pay Later via Invoice” or something like that.

Force checkout to be “Pay Later via Invoice” only.

After calculating shipping edit the order: add the shipping, caclulate new total, change payment method to Credit Card, then send the invoice via WC.

I’m just not sure how to make it so only the “COD”/”Pay Later” is available during checkout, but still have the “Credit Card” payment method available in WC so that when someone receives their invoice, they can click the link, then pay via credit card.

Your help with this is greatly appreciated! ??

Hi 50M,

Per the forum rules, please open up your own support thread. This one is over a year old. You can link to this thread in your own ticket, but you need to create your own support query ??