How to Remove Required Fields from the WooCommerce Checkout & How to Set any field as required or optional

WooCommerce doesn't always let you configure checkout fields the way you want. In this article, I'll show you how to add, remove, and configure WooCommerce checkout fields to be optional or required. Let's begin!

Have you ever seen an error in your WooCommerce checkout because some of the required fields were empty?

Read how to easily manage all WooCommerce checkout fields, make them optional, or just remove them from the order form!

Table of contents

1. Required fields in the WooCommerce checkout
2. Manage required fields with a plugin
3. Remove Required Fields from the checkout

Required fields in the WooCommerce checkout

By default, WooCommerce sets a few checkout fields as required.

👉 You can see the required fields (they have got a red asterisk at the end of their labels):

• First Name
• Last Name
• Country
• Street address
• and so on.

I will show you now how to set them as not required.

👉 For example, you can set the First and Last name fields this way:

👉Also, I'll teach you how to add your own custom fields. You can set them as required, too.

👉What's more, it's also possible to remove (hide) some of these default fields from the WooCommerce checkout.

Before we begin, you need to install a WooCommerce checkout customizer plugin. I'll show you how to install and configure the plugin that I think is very versatile.

Manage required fields with a plugin

We have developed the Flexible Checkout Fields plugin because WooCommerce didn't give us an easy way to configure the checkout fields. And we needed this feature.

Have a look at the plugin's features in the free version:

As you can see, this plugin can do much more than just setting checkout fields as required 🙂

Download this plugin for free and start customizing your checkout fields!

In general, Flexible Checkout Fields lets you:

• easily add custom fields to the checkout,
• edit the present ones,
• rearrange fields in the checkout,
• show new fields and hide the default ones,
• remove required fields or make them optional,
• and much more!

In this guide, I'll focus on how to configure and remove required fields in the WooCommerce checkout.

However, we have created more guides about the plugin features. I'll link them at the end of this article.

Remove Required Fields in the checkout

First, watch this tutorial video where we also explain how to make the checkout required field optional:

To remove a required field or make it optional follow the steps below.

1. Download & install the free plugin

   Download the plugin →

2. Configure the WooCommerce checkout fields

   Go to WooCommerce → Checkout Fields. Here you can Add New Field or Edit Section.

   

   There are a lot of custom fields you can add with this plugin:

   

   You can customize them to your needs. What's more, you can also style the checkout fields.

   However, adding new fields is not our main topic. Let's go set WooCommerce checkout required fields now.

    

3. Remove the required field

   Go to any field in the Edit Section.

   Here you can remove a field from the WooCommerce checkout form.

   

4. Change the field to be optional

   In the field setting, you can also find a Required Field option. Simply mark or unmark this checkbox.

   

   This way you can set default WooCommerce fields as optional.

   Of course, you can create new fields and set them as required or optional!

Summary

We've reached the end of this article. That was quick! You have learned how to remove WooCommerce checkout fields and make them optional.

If you have any questions, let me know in the comments section below!