Checkout shipping costs not updating (Ajax)

Enabling debug mode does not come up with anything relevant. And the ajax is loaded as it works correctly to update the total when changing between shipping options (pickup and courier)

• This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by Rose.

From what I am understanding, a customer has to fill in all required address fields before the shipping will update. The problem with this however is that my shipping zones are based solely on Region (State) so it seems silly not to update the shipping after region is selected. I can either add some custom code to force an update when region is selected. Or use the “Hide shipping costs until an address is entered” option. Neither is ideal. So I am wondering, why is it not part of core Woocommerce for areas that have shipping based on Region or State to send an ajax update when Region/State is selected??

In case anyone else wants this, here is what I have to force updates on Region/State select:

function update_woocommerce_shipping_region_change(){
  if ( function_exists('is_checkout') && is_checkout() ) {
    ?>
    <script>
      window.addEventListener('load', function(){
        var el = document.getElementById("billing_state_field");
        el.className += ' update_totals_on_change'; 
      });
    </script>
    <?php 
  }
}
add_action('wp_print_footer_scripts', 'update_woocommerce_shipping_region_change');

Hello @thorned-rose,

I appreciate you sharing your solution to this situation. WooCommerce does not have a way of detecting patterns in how the shipping zones are set up. It doesn’t check and see if they are all state-based and then change the AJAX refresh based on that. Right now the only option would be a custom solution like you’ve created.

Thanks again for contributing!