PluginCity Minimum Order for WooCommerce

Minimum Order for WooCommerce stops checkout until an order is worth taking, and tells the customer exactly what is missing. In this video, we'll go through everything the plugin does. First the free features, then every Pro feature. Free features are labeled Free, and Pro features are labeled Pro, so you always know which is which. It's all on a demo shop, a coffee roastery in Denver.

Let's start with the free plugin. Open WooCommerce, then Minimum Order. The box at the top is a live example. It shows what a customer with a small sample cart would be told. Minimum spend is switched on. Type your amount. We'll use $75. What to count decides whether coupons come off. We'll keep the cart subtotal, before coupons. Tax follows the figures your customers see. Leave it alone, unless you mean a net figure. Free carts lets a cart that costs nothing through, if you tick it. We'll leave it off. You can ask for a minimum number of items too. Tick Minimum quantity, and make it three. Count total items, where two of one product count as two, or distinct products, where they count as one.

Next, Messages. This is the sentence a customer with a short cart reads. Use {remaining}, {minimum} and {current} where the figures should go, and the plugin fills them in from the cart. We'll write it in our own words, and the example above updates as we type. Display has a switch for the cart, and a switch for the checkout. Both are on. Click Save changes.

Now the customer's view. Here's a cart with just a ceramic dripper in it. The cart says exactly what to add: $47.00 more, and two more items. They can still open the checkout, and the same message sits under the order total. Press Place Order anyway, and the order is refused. Let's add three bags of coffee. Now the cart is over the minimum, the message has gone, and the order goes through.

Now the coupon question. This cart comes to $77.50, and a twenty percent coupon brings it to $62.00. That's under the minimum, but the customer isn't stopped, because we count the subtotal before coupons. To count after coupons, change What to count, and save. Now the same cart is $13.00 short.

To show the message anywhere else, use the shortcode minimum order message, in square brackets. Here it is in the middle of a page. It disappears once the cart is big enough. Import and export saves these settings as a file, so you can move them to another shop, or keep a copy before you change anything. It works with the block cart and checkout, and with High-Performance Order Storage. PayPal express buttons are refused too, so a one-tap order can't get past the rules.

That's the free plugin. Now for Pro. Pro is the same plugin, with the rules a real shop needs beyond one minimum for everyone.

Pro is the whole plugin, not an add-on, so it installs over the free version. Under Plugins, Add Plugin, upload the Pro ZIP. WordPress shows what you have, and what you're about to install. Choose Replace current with uploaded. Your settings are kept. Open Minimum Order, and the Pro screens are here, with Licence at the end. Pro runs for 14 days without a key, but add yours straight away. Open Licence, paste your key, and click Activate. The licence is active. It keeps the Pro rules editable, and brings updates from PluginCity to your Plugins screen.

First, roles. Exempt roles skip the minimums altogether, so wholesale, staff or trade accounts aren't held to them. Minimums per role gives a role its own spend and quantity. Harbor Cafe is a wholesale account, so we'll ask it for $240 and twelve items. A blank box keeps the shop default. Save changes. Here's the cafe's cart, with six bags. The shop minimum would let it through, but its own minimum is higher, so it needs $141.00 more, and six more items. Now tick Wholesale account as an exempt role, and save. The same cart sails through. No message, and nothing to stop it.

Exclusions keep some products out of the totals. A gift card or a sample shouldn't help a cart reach the minimum. This cart has four bags of Sunrise Blend, a sample pack, a dripper, and a gift card. It comes to $131.00, so it passes. Product IDs takes the ID of any product, like the sample pack. Variations follow their parent. You'll find the ID when you hover over a product in your Products list. Category IDs works the same way. We'll leave out Equipment, which holds the dripper. And Ignore virtual products leaves out downloads and gift cards. Save, and only the coffee counts. That's $66.00, so the cart is $9.00 short.

Hide checkout buttons goes one step further. Tick it, and save. A short cart has no Proceed to Checkout button, and the checkout has no Place Order button. Add another bag, and the buttons come back.

Conditional minimums ask for more, or for less, depending on how the order is placed. By shipping method gives each method its own figure. Collecting from the roastery costs nothing to ship, so tick No minimum. The van needs $95. By payment method works the same way. Orders paid by check need $240. By category takes one rule a line: the category ID, then the spend. Single origin coffee needs $100. By postcode does the same. A star covers a whole district, so eighty-one star needs $120. By currency is for shops with a currency switcher, and sets a round figure for each currency. When several rules apply, the strictest one wins. Save. Here's a cart of four Yirgacheffe, a single origin coffee. At $79.00 it passes the shop minimum, but the category asks for $100.00, so it's $21.00 short. At the checkout, the shipping choice matters. Collect from the roastery, and there's no minimum. Choose the van, and the message appears.

Maximums put a ceiling on one order, in money, or in items. We'll set the maximum spend to $150, and the maximum quantity to eight. Each has its own message, with {excess}, {maximum} and {current} for the figures. Here's a cart of ten bags, $165.00. It's $15.00 over the limit, and two items over. Press Place Order, and the order is refused until it's back inside the limits.

Styling changes how the message looks, so it fits your shop. Choose a text colour, a fill, and a border colour. Then a shape: a box, a rounded box, an outline, or no box at all. Add a basket or a warning icon, and set the size, the weight, and the alignment. The preview updates as you go. And here it is on the cart, in the shop's own colours.

Import and export carries the Pro rules too. Export settings, and the file holds them all. So a second shop is set up from a file, not by hand.

What if a licence lapses? Nothing is deleted, and nothing breaks. Your Pro settings stay on screen, but they're read-only, and they say why. The licence screen lists what's switched off, and the shop goes back to the free rules. Where a Pro rule was letting an order through, like an exempt role, it stops, so a lapsed shop is never quietly selling below its own minimum. Renew, and everything switches back on, exactly as you left it.

To recap. The free plugin sets a minimum spend or quantity, writes the message, and refuses short checkouts. Pro adds the rules a real shop needs: roles, exclusions, conditional minimums, maximums, hidden checkout buttons, and styling. Start with the free plugin from WordPress.org, and add Pro when you need it. You'll find both at plugincity.net.