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Bartosz Gajewski

How to Configure Checkout for Digital Goods

Updated: January 27, 2023 / Checkout, Plugin Tutorials

If you sell digital goods you'd like to set the lighter WooCommerce checkout. Probably, you'll only need a customer's name and an e-mail address, nothing more. I will also show you how to temporarily disable the WooCommerce checkout form and remove the company name field. Let's configure the checkout with a free plugin!

Sometimes you may lose customers as the checkout form is too complex. It's especially important when you sell digital goods, so let's see how to configure the light & converting the WooCommerce checkout form!

I will also show you how to set the optimal number of visible form fields and disable the WooCommerce checkout when running your tests. Let's begin!

Table of contents

  • WooCommerce Checkout for Digital Goods in 5 Minutes
  • Disable checkout fields in WooCommerce with a free plugin
  • Disable the WooCommerce checkout during tests
  • More features of Flexible Checkout Fields
  • Summary

WooCommerce Checkout for Digital Goods in 5 Minutes

What we want to achieve

We want to show only 2 fields:

  • First Name
  • Last Name

on the checkout page. We will have to remove other fields, for example, the company name or address from the WooCommerce checkout. Take a look at the final result:

 WooCommerce disable cart and remove checkout fields like company name
WooCommerce Checkout for Digital Goods

Disable checkout fields in WooCommerce with a free plugin

We will use the free Flexible Checkout Fields plugin.

Flexible Checkout Fields WooCommerce

Flexible Checkout Fields will let you disable checkout fields in WooCommerce in 1 minute. You can remove the company name WooCommerce checkout and other fields from the checkout using the free version only!

Download for free or Go to WordPress.org
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80,000+ Active Installations
Last Updated: 2023-03-13
Works with WooCommerce 7.1 - 7.5.x
This plugin lets you configure WooCommerce checkout for digital goods - as you've seen in the example above.

By default, there is also the Ship to a different address section.

Ship to different address
Ship to different address appears when there is a physical product in the cart
💡 WooCommerce hides this section by default when there are no physical products in the cart, but only virtual ones.

You can configure the Virtual type while editing a product.

Virtual product settings
Set the product as a virtual simple product to disable the Ship to a different address section
💡 If you sell a digital book, like an e-book, for example, you should set Downloadable in there, too.

How to hide the Ship to a different address section or its fields?

If you still sell some physical products, you can use the Flexible Checkout Fields plugin to hide some shipping fields:

Ship to a different address? Hide some fields
Go the Shipping section and disable the field you want to hide

👉🏼  And this is how it will look like in the checkout form:

Disable fields shipping form
As you can see, the Name field is hidden

You can also disable the Ship to a different address section entirely with this WooCommerce option!

Force shipping to the customer's billing address
Force shipping to the customer's billing address

You can find it in WooCommerce → Settings → Shipping → Shipping Options.

Remove billing fields like company name from the WooCommerce checkout page

  1. First, get Flexible Checkout Fields

    The plugin lets you customize the WooCOmmerce checkout page & hide shipping address fields of the Billing section.

    Flexible Checkout Fields WooCommerce

    Flexible Checkout Fields will let you disable checkout fields in WooCommerce in 1 minute. You can remove the company name WooCommerce checkout and other fields from the checkout using the free version only!

    Download for free or Go to WordPress.org
    WP Desk
    80,000+ Active Installations
    Last Updated: 2023-03-13
    Works with WooCommerce 7.1 - 7.5.x
  2. Plugin settings

    Once you install the plugin, go to WooCommerce → Checkout Fields.

    Unmark Enable Field checkboxes on each field you want to hide:

    Disable checkout WooCommerce fields - remove the company name
    You can e.g. remove the company name from the WooCommerce checkout
    👉🏽 So you need to disable all the WooCommerce checkout fields (like company name) except the First name and Last name.

    Of course, you can configure it in any other way. This plugin is very flexible (as you see by the name 😉).

  3. Final effect

    🥳That's all! You have configured WooCommerce checkout for digital goods.

     WooCommerce disable cart and checkout
    WooCommerce Checkout for Digital Goods

Disable the WooCommerce checkout during tests

When you set the WooCommerce checkout page and customize its fields you may want to temporarily disable the checkout. You can turn off the checkout by removing the [woocommerce_checkout] shortcode from the page assigned for the checkout in WooCommerce → Settings → Advanced → Page setup.

WooCommerce page setup
WooCommerce page setup

Once you do that, the checkout page will remain empty.

Disable the WooCommerce checkout page
The empty checkout page after removing the shortcode
You may also edit the page and add a notice explaining that the checkout will be back soon 😉.

More features of Flexible Checkout Fields

In short, Flexible Checkout Fields lets you create custom fields in checkout. Also, with this plugin, you can edit or rearrange default WooCommerce checkout fields. For example, you can disable address fields if you sell digital products.

Download Flexible Checkout Fields to add, remove, and customize the fields, for example, company name
Download Flexible Checkout Fields

🟢 The free version lets you add the following extra fields to checkout:

  • Text
  • Textarea
  • Number
  • E-mail
  • Phone
  • URL
  • Checkbox
  • Color
  • Headline
  • Paragraph
  • Image
  • HTML

🔵 With the PRO version you can additionally add these extra fields:

  • Multi-checkbox
  • Select
  • Radio
  • Multi-select
  • Radio with images
  • Date
  • Radio with colors
  • Time
  • File Upload
  • Hidden
💡 Also, the PRO lets you use conditional logic and add pricing to extra fields.

The plugin to customize or disable checkout fields in WooCommerce is free 💷!

Flexible Checkout Fields WooCommerce

Flexible Checkout Fields will let you disable checkout fields in WooCommerce in 1 minute. You can remove the company name WooCommerce checkout and other fields from the checkout using the free version only!

Download for free or Go to WordPress.org
WP Desk
80,000+ Active Installations
Last Updated: 2023-03-13
Works with WooCommerce 7.1 - 7.5.x

Summary

You have learned how to configure the WooCommerce checkout when selling digital goods.

Also, I've shown you the free plugin to remove default WooCommerce checkout fields, like company name, address, or shipping.

Finally, you've seen how to disable the WooCommerce checkout to test the new configuration.

💡 Have a look at our Youtube channel. You will find many interesting video guides there!

Has this article helped you? Let us know in the comments section below!

Wanna know more about WooCommerce checkout form?

  • Shipping and billing section in the WooCommerce checkout

    WooCommerce billing and shipping fields - add, move, remove the fields like the company name
    Personalize shipping and billing in WC checkout. Everything you need to know to configure shipping and billing fields.

  • WooCommerce checkout conditional logic

    WooCommerce checkout conditional logic - if you want, for example, to remove fields like company name based on additional rules
    Conditional logic with a plugin. Find out how to use Flexible Checkout Fields and add extra checkout fields with conditional logic.

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Bartosz Gajewski

Content Specialist in WP Desk. He tries to increase the number of plugin users with useful content. Privately an enthusiast of mountains and European cinema.

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