Plusero - Extra Fees for WooCommerce Free documentation

Plusero - Extra Fees for WooCommerce Free adds a charge to an order when a condition you set is met. Some examples are a cash on delivery surcharge, a small order fee, a packaging charge on fragile goods or a card processing percentage. You describe the rule once, and from then on the fee is applied automatically.

You build each fee in a short guided builder with five steps: Where, When, Amount, Wording and Review. Before you save, the builder reads your answers back to you so you can check what you built. There is no limit on how many fees you create.

Fees are added through the standard WooCommerce cart fee hook. They appear in the cart, the checkout, the order, the confirmation email and PDF invoices, and they work on both the classic and the block cart and checkout. The plugin makes no remote requests. Everything it stores stays in your own database.

The plugin is free on WordPress.org. It needs WooCommerce, so install and activate WooCommerce 8.0 or newer first.

Plusero Fees > All Fees lists every fee you have built. For each fee, the list shows where it applies, what it charges and whether it is active.

On a new install the list is empty and shows No fees yet. A fee is a rule that says what to charge and when. Click Build your first fee to start the builder, or click Read the documentation first to open the built in guide.

From the fee list you can:

• Click Add fee to build a new fee.
• Switch a fee off without deleting it. This is useful when you want to prepare a fee before it goes live, because a new fee is active as soon as you save it.
• Duplicate a fee and use it as the starting point for another one.

There is no limit on how many fees you create.

Plusero Fees > Add Fee opens the fee builder. It has five steps, shown as tabs across the top: Where, When, Amount, Wording and Review. The So far panel on the right sums up your answers as you go. With no conditions yet, it reads Always charged. You can go back and change any answer before you save.

Step 1, Where should this fee be charged?, decides which conditions the builder offers you. Every fee is added to the cart the same way, so the location is about what the fee reacts to, not which page it shows on.

Pick a location and click Next to continue.

Conditions decide when a fee is charged. If you leave them empty, the fee is always charged. If you add them, the fee is charged only when they match. Click Add a condition to add one. The builder reads the rule back to you as a sentence.

At the top of the condition list, choose how the conditions combine:

• All match: every condition has to be true.
• Any match: one matching condition is enough.

For example, with All match, a cart subtotal less than 500 and a billing country of India, a small order fee is charged only on Indian orders under 500.

The conditions you can use:

• Cart subtotal: the cart subtotal before tax, shipping and other fees.
• Total quantity: how many items are in the cart in total, counting quantities.
• Product: matches when one of the chosen products or variations is in the cart.
• Product category: matches when a cart item belongs to one of the chosen categories.
• Customer role: the role of the logged in customer. Visitors who are not logged in count as Guest.
• Billing country: the country on the billing address at checkout.
• Payment method: the gateway the customer selected. The fee updates as soon as they switch.
• Shipping method: the shipping method the customer selected at checkout.

Which of these you see depends on the location you picked in step 1.

In the Amount step you pick a method and fill in the amount it asks for.

• Fixed amount: charges the same amount every time.
• Percentage: charges a percentage of the cart subtotal, with or without tax. For a Product fee, the percentage is taken from the matching products only, not the whole basket. For example, a 10 percent product fee limited to one product charges 10 percent of that product's line, whatever else is in the cart.

These options apply to every method:

• Smallest fee and largest fee: set a floor and a ceiling. This keeps a percentage fee sensible on very large orders.
• Rounding: round to two decimals, up to a whole number, or to the nearest 0.05.
• Charge tax on this fee: makes the fee taxable. When you tick it, you can also choose the tax class it uses. WooCommerce then treats the fee like any other taxable line and includes it in your tax reports.

In the Wording step you decide what customers see:

• Fee label: the name of the fee in the cart and checkout totals, for example Cash on delivery charge.
• Description: a short line in smaller text under the fee amount in the classic cart and checkout totals.
• Tooltip: text shown through a marker next to the fee.
• Order: decides the order in which fees are worked out and displayed.

If you use WPML or Polylang, fee labels, descriptions and tooltips are registered for translation automatically when you save a fee.

In the Review step the builder describes the finished fee in plain words. Read it through, then click Save fee. The fee is active straight away.

Plusero Fees > Settings holds options that apply to every fee in your store. Change what you need and click Save settings.

• When several fees apply sets how more than one matching fee is shown in the cart totals. The available choice is Show each fee on its own line.
• On the storefront has three checkboxes: Show tooltips, Show descriptions and Hide fees that come to zero. They control the tooltip marker, the description line and whether a fee that works out to nothing is left off the totals.
• Uninstalling has Remove all fees and settings when the plugin is deleted. This is off by default, so your fees survive a deactivate, a reactivate or an update. Turn it on only when you are removing the plugin for good.

Plusero Fees > Documentation explains every option inside your dashboard, so you do not have to leave your site to look something up. Use the links at the top to jump to a topic:

• Getting started: building your first fee and checking that it works.
• Where a fee is charged: each location and the conditions it offers.
• Conditions: what each condition means.
• How the amount is worked out: methods, limits, rounding and tax.
• What the customer sees: label, description, tooltip, internal name and order.
• Settings: each setting on the Settings screen.
• Questions that come up: common problems and their answers.
• For developers: the filters and actions you can use, such as plusero_ef_conditions, plusero_ef_evaluate_condition, plusero_ef_methods and plusero_ef_calculate_custom.

You do not need to add anything to your pages. Shoppers see your fees as extra lines in the cart and checkout totals, below the subtotal, and the same fees carry through to the order, the confirmation email and PDF invoices.

• Each fee shows its Fee label and amount.
• In the classic cart and checkout, a fee with a description shows it as a short line in smaller text under the amount. The block cart and checkout draw their own totals and do not show descriptions.
• A fee with tooltip text gets a marker next to it when Show tooltips is on.
• Payment and shipping fees recalculate as soon as the shopper changes the payment method or the shipping method. A cash on delivery surcharge appears and disappears as they change their mind. This works on both the classic and the block checkout.
• The classic cart and checkout, the block cart and checkout, and the Store API all show the same totals.