How to add conditional logic to WooCommerce checkout fields?

In this guide, you'll learn how to configure conditional logic for checkout fields in your WooCommerce store. I'll guide you step by step through the configuration. In the end, you'll be able to configure WooCommerce checkout conditional fields by yourself 🚀!

Table of contents

1. WooCommerce Checkout Fields Editor
2. Conditional Checkout Fields - Features
3. Flexible Checkout Fields plugin fields conditional logic
4. Cart conditional logic
5. WooCommerce default fields conditional logic
6. Shipping method conditional logic
7. Payment method conditional logic
8. Date conditional logic

Have you ever wanted to hide, show or set as required some fields based on some conditions, like country, shipping or/and payment details or products in the cart? You can do it easily with Flexible Checkout Fields!

Let's set conditional checkout fields in WooCommerce with our plugin ⭐!

WooCommerce Checkout Fields Editor

To proceed with this guide you'll need a plugin because WooCommerce does not let you easily modify the WooCommerce checkout page.

We created Flexible Checkout Fields to change that! One of the most powerful features that we developed in the plugin is the support for conditional logic (in PRO) ⭐.

But don't just take our word for it, over 90,000 WooCommerce stores worldwide use the FREE plugin daily to customize their checkout page 💪. We encourage you to try the free version first before you decide to get the PRO, which supports conditional logic.

We often add new features or fix bugs in this plugin. And people really appreciate it!

This plugin also utilizes the WordPress look & feel and is very easy to use due to the clean interface. Download the free version of Flexible Checkout Fields ➡️

Download Flexible Checkout Fields →

👉🏽 Have a look at some of the plugin's features before we start:

 

You can download Flexible Checkout Fields for free 😊! Watch this video to see what this plugin offers you in the free version:

WooCommerce conditional checkout fields features

You can configure conditional logic in 8 ways:

• WooCommerce default fields conditional logic,
• Flexible Checkout Fields plugin fields conditional logic,
• Flexible Product Fields plugin fields conditional logic,
• Cart conditional logic,
• User conditional logic,
• Shipping method conditional logic,
• Payment method conditional logic,
• Date conditional logic.

Now, I will show you home some of them work.

Flexible Checkout Fields plugin fields conditional logic

We will demo the working of FCF conditional logic using the example of the default Woo Phone field in the Billing section and the Checkbox field added with the Flexible Checkout Fields plugin.

First, you need to create a new custom field added with Flexible Checkout Fields. In our case it will be a Checkbox field.

Then, select Checkbox as a field type. Set Show phone? as a label:

Meta name will be the name of the field in your database. You don't need to change the default one.

Click Add Field. Then, as you can see, the field shows up on the configuration screen:

Go to the Phone WooCommerce default field and click the Conditional logic tab.

Now you need to set the conditions for which the Show Phone? field will show up in the checkout form. You can do this in many possible ways by adding one or more conditional groups.

Save settings and you're ready to go.

Look:

🎉 As you can see, it works as we wanted!

Cart conditional logic

💡 Now let's see another way to set the conditional logic rules at checkout.

You can use cart conditional logic as well. This includes both the cart contains and cart value rules.

Let's say you sell T-shirts with custom projects. You want your customers to be able to describe their projects to you. Also, you need a phone number to discuss the project with them.

There is a default Phone field in checkout but maybe your customers would like to provide another phone number. This way they can guide you directly to the Marketing Manager instead of the Accounting or Office Manager.

👉🏽 So we need such fields:

When a customer selects the second option, another phone field pops up:

How to configure these fields this way?

First, you need to add these fields:

(The 'T-Shirt Custom Project' is a HTML text field. I used the <strong> HTML tag to bold it).

Then, you need to configure conditional logic:

👉🏽 As you see, I configured the plugin to show the field when a cart contains a T-Shirt - Custom Project product. You need to configure conditional logic the same way for the next two fields.

However, for the last field (Your phone number), you need to combine it with Flexible Checkout Fields conditional logic. That's because the plugin should display this field when a customer selects a specific option in the radio field. I mean the 'I want to provide another phone number to discuss the project' option.

👉🏽 Look:

Also, you can use phone number validation for this field:

You can base your cart rules both on the contents of the cart, as in the example above, but also on its value. See a sample scenario:

WooCommerce default fields conditional logic

You can use conditional logic for the default WooCommerce Company name field as well.

👉🏽 By default, WooCommerce shows the Company name field right after the First name and Last name fields. The field is optional. However, it's better to hide it unless a customer wants an invoice.

You can simply move the field to the bottom. Next, you can simply create an I want an invoice checkbox and a VAT Number field 😊.

Then you need to configure conditional logic for the Company name and VAT Number fields.

Remember to set these fields as Required.

Look at the final effect:

💡 Bonus: There is another solution.

Flexible Invoices for WooCommerce

What's more, we created the Flexible Invoices plugin for WordPress and WooCommerce. Not only it adds a VAT number field but also validates the VAT number your customers provide.

PS. Do you want to change the fields' look? Check out our CSS styling guide.

Shipping Method conditional logic

With this feature, you'll be able to show or hide checkout fields when a customer selects a certain shipping method on the checkout page. To do that, just check Enable conditional logic based on shipping methods and add a new rule. 

In the Rule section, you'll see a select field. First one, select the rule base, you want to set the conditional logic for. In our case, it's Shipping method. Next, you need to define your parameters, which means: the country for which you do not want to show shipping methods. Select Shipping Zone, you can choose the shipping zone that includes your shipping method. Then, in the next field, Select Shipping Method, choose your shipping methods that are included in the selected shipping zone.

Want to know more? You can read our complete guide about how to hide or show checkout fields based on the shipping method in WooCommerce ➡️.

Payment Method conditional logic

Let's see how we should proceed if we wanted to set up conditional logic dependent on shipping methods. Lets say I want to give the option to pick up the ordered product in person in case the customer wants to pay cash on delivery. To realize this scenario, I add a checkbox field with the Local pick up label and add the following rule:

Date conditional logic

Let's test another scenario, this time it will be based on a date. Lets consider the previous example, where we configured rules for the payment method. Now, let's assume that we want to show the previous field (Local pick up, which is already based on the payment method) only if the user selects a date between, say, February 1 and February 9, 2024. To accomplish this scenario, I set the following conditions:

Summary

In this quick guide, you have learned how to configure WooCommerce checkout conditional fields. If you have any questions, just use the comments section below.

Visit the Flexible Checkout Fields product page to see all features of the plugin.

You can find a full description of all the rules on which you can base conditional logic in the Flexible Checkout Fields plugin in the plugin's documentation:

Flexible Checkout Fields - Conditional logic

Also, download the FREE version of the plugin to customize the WooCommerce checkout page right away.

Finally, try the plugin in your free demo!