A WooCommerce fan asked me: “How do you deny checkout if the cart weight is above a certain threshold?“.
Well, this is straight forward thanks to a WooCommerce core function called “cart_contents_weight” which allows you to get the total weight of your cart, and then the “wc_add_notice” function which shows a notification error.
Enjoy!
WooCommerce: show checkout error if weight exceeds a threshold
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Hello Vasco, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!
Hassan, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!
Hello Paul, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!
Is it possible to deny checkout on specific weeks or months? Like for instance, Once the user checkout already last week, he cannot able to checkout this week, should have 2 – 3 weeks to be able to checkout again.
Hello John, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!
Hi Kristoffer, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!
I want to ask if there any way this will only show up for a regular customer, I have the wholesale plugin for WooCommerce and I don’t want that notice for that user role.
James – thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is possible – but unfortunately this is custom work and I cannot provide a complementary solution here via the blog comments. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding! ~R
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Of course this website itself uses the WooCommerce plugin, the Storefront theme and runs on a WooCommerce-friendly hosting.
Sadly, it doesn’t work anymore
I find that very unlikely. Did you say it used to work before? What did you do recently in regard to plugin updates etc.?
If this snippet is supposed to be working on the cart page, then it has stopped working…
No, this triggers on the checkout page only
Hello, how can I use this code with a min weight for checkout? I tried
instead of
and also tried to change the value to a negative value like
, but both won’t work unfortunately. Thanks!
Hello Vasco, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!
how can i restrict bulky items shipping for local and extended area only. No shipping to nation wide for bulky items
can this be achieved by php function?
Hassan, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!
Is there a way to modify or adapt this snippet to
1) trigger on combined weight of a specific category
2) trigger a “request for quote” button
Thanks
Hello Paul, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!
Is it possible to deny checkout on specific weeks or months? Like for instance, Once the user checkout already last week, he cannot able to checkout this week, should have 2 – 3 weeks to be able to checkout again.
Hello John, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!
Is it possible to have the invoice payment gateway option open so that the customer can send the order through?
I have to calculate the freight manually over 88kg and I would like to disable the other payments to avoid customers paying through card.
Hi Kristoffer, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!
Awesome Snippet ๐
I want to ask if there any way this will only show up for a regular customer, I have the wholesale plugin for WooCommerce and I don’t want that notice for that user role.
Thanks a lot for sharing this with the community.
James – thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is possible – but unfortunately this is custom work and I cannot provide a complementary solution here via the blog comments. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding! ~R