Shipping Rules by Role - Hide WooCommerce Shipping Methods & Payment Gateways by User Role (Blocks Compatible)

Description

Hide or show WooCommerce shipping methods and payment gateways per user role - free, and it works on the block checkout too.

WooCommerce shipped the new block-based Cart and Checkout in 2023 and broke most of the old conditional-shipping plugins overnight. The official Conditional Shipping and Payments extension from WooCommerce is $79/year with no drag-drop rule builder. QuadLayers Checkout Manager is explicitly incompatible with WC 8.3+ blocks. SkyVerge/GoDaddy Checkout Add-Ons never made the jump. Fluid Checkout falls back to shortcode at runtime. Everyone else costs money or forces you into a modified checkout.

Why Shipping Rules by Role beats the alternatives: Shipping Rules by Role uses the standard WooCommerce PHP filters (woocommerce_package_rates and woocommerce_available_payment_gateways) that fire for both the classic shortcode checkout AND the new block-based Cart/Checkout blocks - no JS compatibility shim, no runtime fallback, no modified checkout. One plugin, both surfaces, zero configuration to switch between them. Free forever.

Block-checkout native + HPOS compatible

Full compatibility with the WooCommerce Cart and Checkout blocks (declared via FeaturesUtil). HPOS-native (declared for custom order tables). Works with WooCommerce Subscriptions, Bookings, Memberships, and every other extension that uses the standard WC shipping and payment APIs.

What you get for free

• Role-based shipping visibility - hide or show any shipping method (per-zone instance like flat_rate:3, or entire method type) based on user role.
• Role-based payment gateway visibility - hide or show Cash on Delivery, Cheque, Stripe, PayPal, or any gateway based on role.
• Two logic modes per rule - Hide these (customer sees everything else) or Show only these (customer sees only what you check).
• Per-zone method instance targeting - hide a $5 Flat Rate in Zone 1 but keep the same Flat Rate in Zone 2.
• Guest checkout support - configure a pseudo-role slug for not-logged-in customers.
• Enable/disable rules without deleting - great for testing rule changes.
• Multi-role handling - rule fires when the customer belongs to ANY of the selected roles.
• Zero third-party services - all rule evaluation happens inside WordPress. No external API calls.

New to per-role shipping? Read the full walkthrough and plugin comparison: WooCommerce shipping rules by role (2026 guide).