Shipping plugins span rates, carriers and fulfillment
The 658-plugin Shipping category spans several distinct needs rather than one type of tool.
WooCommerce overlaps with 486 plugins, while delivery appears alongside 112, courier 56, tracking 47, logistics 45 and fulfillment 21. These related tags point to a mix of store-platform, carrier, delivery and order-fulfillment concerns.
Carrier and fulfillment integrations
Many of the category’s most-installed plugins have names pointing to shipping platforms, vendors or carrier-specific contexts.
- WooCommerce Shipping: 70,000 active installs; updated this month.
- Printful Integration for WooCommerce: 50,000 installs; updated 9 months ago.
- ShipStation for WooCommerce: 40,000 installs; updated this month.
- Packlink PRO for WooCommerce: 20,000 installs; updated this month.
- Colissimo shipping methods for WooCommerce: 10,000 installs; updated 1 month ago.
- Shiptastic integrations: Shiptastic for WooCommerce has 10,000 installs and was updated 1 month ago; Shiptastic Integration for DHL has 10,000 installs and was updated 3 months ago. The names indicate their contexts, not a full account of their capabilities.
Shipping rates and checkout rules
A separate strand is associated with setting shipping rates and handling checkout-related rules.
The shipping-rates tag overlaps with 29 plugins, and checkout with 46, distinguishing this group from the carrier and fulfillment names above.
- Advanced Free Shipping for WooCommerce: 40,000 active installs; updated this month.
- Table Rate Shipping for WooCommerce: 10,000 active installs; updated 2 months ago.
A fragmented category with uneven maintenance and adoption
Shipping has a broad plugin pool, but relatively few plugins reach the higher install tiers.
Only 11 plugins have at least 10,000 active installs, and none reach 100,000. Meanwhile, 67% of category plugins were updated in the last year, so maintenance is not uniform across the full group.
Review signals and activity vary among established plugins: WooCommerce Shipping has 70,000 installs, was updated this month, and has a poor rating signal based on few reviews; Printful Integration for WooCommerce has 50,000 installs, was updated 9 months ago, and has a poor signal with a moderate number of reviews. Claudio Sanches has 20,000 installs and an excellent signal across many reviews, but was last updated 21 months ago.