Rateline documentation1.x
Buy Pro· 5 sites · $159/year
Method settings

Standard and Express

Offer customers a choice of rates by adding Table rate to a zone more than once.

Each Table rate method gives one rate. To let customers choose, for example between Standard and Express, add Table rate to the zone twice:

  1. In WooCommerce → Settings → Shipping, open the zone and click Add shipping method → Table rate again.
  2. Edit the first and name it "Standard shipping", with its rules.
  3. Edit the second and name it "Express (1–2 days)", with its own rules.
A zone with a Standard and an Express Table rate

At checkout, customers see both, each with the price from its own table, and choose:

Both rates at checkout

Drag the methods in the zone's list to set their order at checkout. WooCommerce selects the first one by default.

Each method is separate

Each has its own name, tax status, handling fee, minimum and maximum, and table. A rule in one never affects the other. For example:

Standard shipping

When From To Cost Per lb Label No shipping
Weight 70 ✓
Subtotal 150 0 Free shipping
Weight 5 6.95
Weight 5 70 9.95 0.50

Express (1–2 days), handling fee 2, maximum 45

When From Cost Per item No shipping
Weight 30 ✓
Always 14.95 2

Over 30 lbs, Express isn't offered and customers get Standard only.

Tip

Rateline Pro can also give several rates from one table, by naming some rules "Express", so both share one set of conditions and one place to edit.