Follow this step-by-step guide to configure your WooCommerce store to sell Inkthreadable products to anyone, anywhere in the world.

WooCommerce offers multiple methods for handling shipping costs for your customers. We'll use weight-based rules because they allow you to mimic our shipping costs and ensure that customers always cover the postage cost.

If you're feeling creative, nothing is stopping you from setting up your WooCommerce shipping rates to match ours and then adding a few fun touches of your own. For example, you could offer free shipping to the UK for orders over £50 – but we won't cover that in this guide since it wouldn't match our shipping costs.

Shipping costs vary by parcel weight and destination, so you'll be setting up a profile in WooCommerce to match Inkthreadable's pricing structure – easy peasy!

If this all sounds a bit overwhelming, don't panic – by the end of this guide, it'll all make perfect sense, and you won't ever have to do this again.

Let's get to it and set you up with shipping rates for worldwide fulfilment.

Before you get started, you'll need to install a plugin that allows weight-based shipping.

There are a few options, but the one we recommend is WooCommerce Weight Based Shipping. The basic version is free to use and includes all the necessary features.

The easiest way to install the plug-in is through WordPress. Log in and click Add New under the Plugins heading.
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In the search bar, type 'WooCommerce Weight Based Shipping' (or copy/paste) and hit return. The first result should be the one shown above. Click Install.

Next, we will set the weight units of your products to kg/kilogrammes (since this is used for the weight of Inkthreadable products).

Head to your WooCommerce dashboard, and click WooCommerce > Settings to open your store settings.

Under the Products tab, you can change the weight unit. Select kg (for kilogrammes) from the drop-down menu and click the Save Changes button.

Changing these settings changes the default weights for calculating shipping.

Since we're using weight-based shipping, you'll also need to make sure your products have weight values assigned to them.

If you're just getting started and don't yet have any products listed in your WooCommerce store, you can skip this step.

Any products exported from Inkthreadable to WooCommerce will automatically have the correct weight values assigned to them, so if you've imported products, you can also skip this step.

We recommend syncing products from Inkthreadable to your store for this reason, and you can always edit the finer details afterwards.

But if you already have some products that you created manually in your WooCommerce store, follow the process in the drop-down below to ensure your shipping is calculated correctly:

Once you've installed the weight-based shipping plugin and assigned weights to each product, we can set your shipping rates.

Before we get started, it's worth mentioning that your shipping rates don't need to match ours. We pass on the cost of shipping to you, and to keep this cost as low as possible, we don't make any profit ourselves from shipping your parcels.

You can charge your customers less to offer them cheaper shipping, more to increase your profit, or nothing if you want to offer free shipping. In each case, we'll still charge you the rates listed on our site.

Please note: the prices in this guide were last updated in March 2023. We always aim to keep this guide updated, but we recommend following the rates from the shipping costs page if you view this in the future.

Head to WooCommerce > Settings > Shipping.

We must set up shipping zones to enable shipping to all countries before adding the weight-based rates. Click Shipping Zones.

Select Add shipping zone and enter the following details:

Then, hit save changes.

Next, click Add shipping method, and select 'Weight based shipping' from the drop-down.

Your zone should look like this:

Then click Edit on the new shipping method you've created to start adding the shipping rules.

On this page, we'll create a rule for each weight bracket available with each shipping method in the UK, starting with Royal Mail 48 Tracked.

Add Royal Mail 48 Tracked Shipping

Now, you'll need to repeat those steps for several more rates following the table below:

*This rate above 6kg+ will rarely be used but may be worth adding if you expect large orders. It covers orders between 61 - 120 x t-shirts or 31 - 60 x hoodies.

You can change the rate names if you wish - however, the words "48" / "24" and "Courier" are keywords and must be included for the order to be received on the correct method via the integration. Learn more about keywords.

Once you're done, it'll look something like this:
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Remember to click 'Save changes'. You've now set up your rates for the UK!

Now, return to the Shipping Zones page and click Add shipping zone.
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Add zone name Zone 1 Europe Weight Based Shipping.

Click into the Zone regions box. You'll now need to enter each country manually. The list of all European countries is below and, unfortunately, you can't copy/paste this list since you can only enter one country at a time.

Germany, Netherlands, Austria, France & Italy

Click Save changes.

Now, let's add the rates to this zone by clicking Add shipping method. The steps are the same as previous rates, following the table below:

Next, return to the Shipping Zones page and click Add shipping zone.
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Add zone name Zone 2 Europe Weight Based Shipping.

Click into the Zone regions box. You'll now need to enter each country manually. The list of all European countries is below and, unfortunately, you can't copy/paste this list since you can only enter one country at a time.

Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, Georgia, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vatican City.

Click Save changes.

Now, let's add the rates to this zone by clicking Add shipping method. The steps are the same as previous rates, following the table below:

Once you're done, you'll have 8 rates within your Europe zone. Click Save Changes.
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Next, we're going to create a zone for the USA. Return to the Shipping Zones page.

Click Add Shipping Zone. Add zone name USA Weight Based Shipping, and then add the United States under Zone regions.

Then, add the rates to this zone to match the following table.

And you're almost there! Click Save to apply the changes so far.

Click Add Shipping Zone, enter the zone name Canada Weight Based Shipping and select the Canada region to include all 13 provinces.

Then, follow the process to add rates using the details of this table:

All we need to do now is update your rates for the rest of the world!

All remaining countries will be covered under one zone.

Instead of clicking Add shipping zone, this time, we'll click Locations not covered by your other zones.

This zone will automatically be used for any country that isn't in a zone already, aka the rest of the world!

Once you've opened this zone, click the Add shipping method button and follow the rates in this table:

Don't forget to hit Save changes to apply the changes.

And that's it. You've now created rates for all services shipping to all destinations!

We recommend reviewing your shipping profile to double-check your condition columns and prices. It's so easy to accidentally type an extra 0 or forget to add a minimum weight, which could cause checkout errors for your customers.

We've provided tables to make it easy for you to check your profiles. Do it now!

At this stage, it's a good idea to add some products to your basket to see the shipping rates in action. Test different product combinations and shipping destinations to ensure your store calculates the prices correctly.