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How about a WooCommerce Price Calculator free plugin?

Updated: July 01, 2022 / Marketing Tips, Plugin Tutorials

Sounds excellent, right? Meet our free plugin to add price calculations in WooCommerce based on a new unit of measure. Sell your products based on weight, length, area, and volume (LxWxH)! And build your WooCommerce Price Calculator today!

Price Calculations in WooCommerce

As you know, by default, WooCommerce uses the standard units of measure & dimensions (kg, g, lbs, oz for the weight and m, cm, mm, in, yd for the dimension). You may use those units for setting the weight and dimensions of the product for shipping purposes.

Product weight and dimensions in WooCommerce

But you can offer products by their quantity (stock) only. Now, what if you'd like to sell based on more units of measure and calculate the price accordingly? Then, you're in the right place!

Today, I'll show you how to sell lemons by weight and lemon juice by volume. You'll learn how to offer products with the new units of measure (weight and volume).

Table of contents

  • Download the WooCommerce Price Calculator free plugin
  • Product Price based on the new weight unit
  • Sell your products by volume
  • Calculate the weight and volume with smaller units and unit dimensions (PRO)
  • WooCommerce Price Calculator - dynamic pricing and shipping costs (PRO)

WooCommerce Price Calculator free plugin

To calculate product prices based on new units of measure:

  1. First, download and install the Flexible Quantity free plugin from the WordPress repository,
     
    Download Flexible Quantity →
     
  2. Then, go to the product edit screen and enable the new unit of measure (for example, km for transportation services),
    New unit of measure for a WooCommerce simple product
  3. Finally, set the new unit for dynamic price calculations.
    Set the product unit of measure - field, price, sale price, increment, minimum and maximum quantity
Read more in the plugin documentation and the article about WooCommerce Measurement Price Calculator.

Product Price based on the new weight unit

Now, you can use weight as a new unit of measurement as well. The plugin lets you define the unit name, prices, increment value, or minimum and maximum unit quantity. Let's see how the plugin helps you build your WooCommerce price calculator for the weight units.

  1. The initial steps are similar as shown above: open the product edit screen and enable the new unit of measure,
  2. Set kg for our lemons as a new unit of measurement, and choose its parameters,
    Sell WooCommerce products by a new unit of measure - weight
  3. Finally, see our lemons sold per kg in your WooCommerce store.
    WooCommerce Price calculator for product sold by the new unit of weight

As you see, WooCommerce will show the final price per kg based on the dynamic price calculations.

Sell your products by volume

Let's see now how to sell lemon juice by volume.

  1. First, add a new WooCommerce product and enable the new unit of measure (liters),
  2. Set the new unit and its parameters,
    Sell WooCommerce products by volume
  3. That's it! We've just added lemon juice to the store's shelves.
    Sell lemon juice in your store by volume

Moreover, there are additional options for inventory below the unit settings. You can decide that the new unit will change the product stock based on the quantity (e.g. kg, or l). You may also allow customers to buy one product only, for example, 3 kg of lemons, without the option to select more 3kg "bags".

Inventory management and sold individually options for WooCommerce products with a new unit of measure

The above options are included in the Flexible Quantity - Measurement Price Calculator for WooCommerce free plugin.

Now, let's see how you can customize the unit of measure, pricing, and shipping costs with Flexible Quantity PRO.

Calculate the weight and volume on smaller units (PRO)

There is a way to sell lemons per kilograms or liters, but also let customers enter the smaller units (here grams and milliliters) to calculate the unit quantity and the product prices.

Let's suppose you want to sell lemon juice: for $7 per liter, but let your clients enter the volume every 100 ml up to 10000 ml (10 liters).

To set that option for your WooCommerce product with the price calculator plugin:

  1. Enable the unit dimensions,
    Enable Unit Dimensions of the WooCommerce price calculator plugin
  2. Choose the dimension's properties (the ml as a smaller unit of measure, the increment, the unit label, and minimum and maximum values too),
    Sell products by milliliters and user input in WooCommerce
  3. Done! Your customers can now enter the volume in milliliters. The plugin will calculate the price in full liters dynamically.
    WooCommerce Price Calculator for selling volume-based products
Read how to add product dimensions in WooCommerce and check the plugin documentation!

Change price and shipping cost based on quantity (PRO)

Sometimes you may want the product price to depend on the quantity of the new unit of measure. The plugin gives you 2 options: the pricing table and the shipping class table.

Price calculator based WooCommerce product quantity

The pricing table lets you set the ranges for different prices and sale prices based on the quantity.

Dynamic product prices based on the quantity - WooCommerce Price Calculator PRO

The product price will now depend on the product quantity (based on your new unit of measurement).

WooCommerce Price Calculator in action for dynamic product prices based on the quantity of the new unit of measure

Flexible shipping costs depend on the unit quantity

You can also enable and set the shipping class table. Choose the quantity ranges and choose the shipping classes.

Shipping class table for flexible shipping costs in WooCommerce

The shipping cost will depend on the quantity of the new unit of measure of your WooCommerce product.

Flexible Quantity - shipping classes settings and additional costs

That will give you flexible shipping costs in your WooCommerce store based on the product quantity (and the new unit of measure).

Flexible shipping cost based on the product quantity in WooCommerce

WooCommerce Price Calculator - Summary

In this article, you've learned how to use a free measurement price calculator for WooCommerce to sell products based on new units of measure. I've shown you weight and volume-based products with prices based on the new units. Also, how to use the pricing table and shipping class table for dynamic prices of new products with the PRO version of the plugin.

Visit Flexible Quantity - Measurement Price Calculator for WooCommerce PRO to see all features, check the plugin documentation, and run your tests in a free demo!

Flexible Quantity Calculator for WooCommerce £79

Enable product price calculation based on dimensions on the product page. Set price and shipping thresholds for product quantities.

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Last Updated: 2023-03-16
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