How to disable shipping costs based on bool in user_meta

  • Hi, WooComm community. I am working on a custom WooCommerce shop. In my user account data, I have a user_meta field called “freight_inclusive_pricing” that will either be a 1 or a 0. If it’s a 1, I want to disable all shipping costs for that user, period. Any thoughts on where/how to implement this programmatically?

    FWIW, I am using a custom shipping plugin that I wrote, which takes cart contents, sends them to an API my client created, then injects the API’s return value as the total shipping cost (they wanted to control shipping tables outside of WordPress). But in the case of a user’s “freight_inclusive_pricing” being 1, I want to ignore that process entirely. Any ideas? Thanks!

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  • Thread Starter jameskanestl

    (@jameskanestl)

    Okay, figured it out. In my custom shipping costs plugin, I simply insert the following lines:

    [shipping calculations based on cart are made and loaded into $cost]

if (get_user_meta(get_current_user_id(), "freight_inclusive")) {
			$cost = "0.0";
		}

    Then inject the cost as per usual

    $this->add_rate( array(
	      'id' 	=> $this->id,
	      'label' => $this->title,
	      'cost' 	=> $cost
	    ));
    Danny Santoro

    (@danielsantoro)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    I’m not sure on how you’d check for that, but a less-programmy way would probably involve something with Groups, so you can split users into ones that are able to get freight and ones that cannot.

    Then you should be able to restrict access using something like Memberships or Conditional Shipping and Payments. Those plugins alone might need modification to do it, but the idea is hiding the options from certain users.

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