Local Pickup

Local Pickup is a WooCommerce core shipping method that allows the customer to pick up an order themselves. On this page, you’ll learn how to:

Add Local Pickup as a shipping method.
Configure Local Pickup.

This document is referring to the legacy WooCommerce local pickup options. If you’re using a WooCommerce Blocks-based checkout, you can find configuration instructions for the local pickup block here.

Local Pickup: Setup and Configuration

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Setting up Local Pickup starts by adding it as a shipping method to a shipping zone. Follow these steps to add the Local Pickup option:

This shipping method has to be added to a Shipping zone. If you haven’t configured your Shipping zones yet, please check our Setting up Shipping Zones guide before proceeding.

Go to WooCommerce > Settings > Shipping > Shipping zones.

2. Click the Edit button on the shipping zone where you want to offer this method.

3. Inside the shipping zone, click the Add shipping method button.

4. Then, select the shipping method and click the Continue button.

5. Enter a Name that displays to customers in the cart and checkout pages.

6. Select the Tax Status to determine whether tax is applied to the Local Pickup Cost.

By default, when selecting local pickup, the store address will be used to calculate taxes regardless of the customer’s address.

8. (Optional) Enter the Cost for this option. This is applied to the entire cart.

9. Click the Create button to finish.

Local Pickup: Customer view

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Customers can select “local pickup” as an option in the cart/checkout if they reside in the shipping zone that includes it. This is what customers see in the cart and checkout:

Cart view:

Checkout view

*View of local pickup option at checkout*

Local Pickup: Advanced Settings/Customization

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Note: We are unable to provide support for customizations under our Support Policy.

Custom emails for local pickup

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Customers receive the same order confirmation email whether they select local pickup or any other shipping option since all core shipping options use the standard order flow.

Use this guide to create custom emails for local pickup, if you’d like to send a separate email for local pickup orders: How to Add a Custom WooCommerce Email.

Disable local taxes when using local pickup

Note: Local Pickup calculates taxes based on your store’s location (address) by default, and not the customer’s address. Follow these instructions to use your standard tax configuration instead:

To disable local tax calculations for Local Pickup, add this snippet at the end of your theme functions.php file:

add_filter( 'woocommerce_apply_base_tax_for_local_pickup', '__return_false' );

Regular taxes will be used when local pickup is selected, instead of store-location-based taxes.

Note: We are unable to provide support for customizations under our Support Policy.

Changing the location for local taxes

To charge local taxes based on postcode and city for Local Pickup, you need to define the shop’s base city and post code using this code:

	add_filter( 'woocommerce_countries_base_postcode', create_function( '', 'return "80903";' ) );
	add_filter( 'woocommerce_countries_base_city', create_function( '', 'return "COLORADO SPRINGS";' ) );

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Questions and Support

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Do you still have questions and need assistance?

This documentation is about the free, core WooCommerce plugin for which support is provided in our community forums on WordPress.org. Searching there you’ll often find that your question has been asked and answered before.

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If you’re looking to extend the core functionality shown here, we recommend reviewing available extensions in the Woo Marketplace.
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