Q. How can I upgrade to Weight zone shipping for WooCommerce?
A. From v0.2.0, oik-weight-zone-shipping provides a migration tool that was previously only available to the the premium version, oik-weight-zone-shipping-pro.
Automatic migration – step by step
- Backup your site.
- Install and activate the oik-weight-zone-shipping plugin.
- Visit WooCommerce > Settings > Shipping.
- Select the “Multi Rate Weight Zone” tab.
- Choose the “Perform Migration” action and press “Save changes”.
- Check the messages displayed.
- When satisfied choose the “Complete Migration” action and press “Save changes”.
- Deactivate your previously active Weight/Country shipping plugin
Note: This video was recorded with oik-weight-zone-shipping-pro v0.0.1 on a WordPress Multisite installation. The steps are basically the same for oik-weight-zone-shipping.
Manual migration – step by step
The first few steps are the same as for automatic migration.
- Backup your site
- Install and activate the oik-weight-zone-shipping plugin.
- Visit WooCommerce > Settings > Shipping.
To manually migrate your settings from Weight/country shipping to Weight zone shipping you will need to
manually copy all the shipping rates from the Weight/Country shipping rates tab.
For each Country group:
- Create a new Shipping zone.
- Add the countries to the Shipping zone.
- Add the Weight zone shipping method to the Shipping zone.
- Copy and edit the settings from the Weight/Country shipping rate table.
If you used Country Group 0, for default shipping rates for other countries, then you will need to define settings for the “Rest of the World”.
- Add the Weight zone shipping method to the “Rest of the World” shipping zone.
- Copy and edit the settings for country group 0.
Rerun migration
Should you want to rerun the migration, it’s now possible using oik-weight-zone-shipping v0.2.0, or higher.
- Reactivate the oik weight/country shipping plugin.
- Visit WooCommerce > Settings > Shipping.
- Delete the Shipping Zones.
- Re-enable the Weight/Country shipping method.
- Select the Multi Rate Weight Zone tab.
- Choose the “Perform Migration” action and press “Save changes”.
- Check the messages displayed.
- When satisfied choose the “Complete Migration” action and press “Save changes”.
- Deactivate your previously active Weight/Country shipping plugin.