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22/08/2026

Should your store use address autocomplete or address validation?

Autocomplete speeds up checkout and reduces typing mistakes. Validation checks the completed address for missing or incorrect information. But neither one alone can enforce every courier or fulfilment restriction.

Our latest guide explains the difference and how Address Guard Pro combines autocomplete, validation, and local checkout rules.

Read the guide:

Compare address autocomplete and address validation for WooCommerce, learn what each does, and see how Address Guard Pro combines both at checkout.

21/08/2026

A customer enters a street name but forgets the house number. WooCommerce accepts the order, payment is completed, and your fulfilment team discovers the problem while creating the shipping label.

Address Guard Pro can detect the missing house number and ask the customer to correct it before the order is placed.

Our latest guide explains how to configure the rule, write a helpful checkout message, and test different international address formats.

Read the guide:

Stop WooCommerce orders with missing house numbers. Use Address Guard Pro to block incomplete addresses at checkout and prevent failed deliveries.

21/08/2026

An unsupported PO box or parcel locker address may seem like a minor checkout issue, but it can delay dispatch, interrupt fulfilment, and create another customer-support task.

WooCommerce does not prevent these addresses by default. With local checkout rules, merchants can detect restricted address patterns and ask customers for a valid street address before accepting the order.

Our latest guide explains how Address Guard Pro handles this without requiring a paid address-validation API.

Learn how to block PO boxes and parcel lockers in WooCommerce using local checkout rules to prevent delivery failures and fulfilment delays.

01/07/2026

We just released Delivery Promise for WooCommerce 🎉

Customers want to know when their order will arrive before they buy. Delivery Promise helps WooCommerce stores show realistic dispatch and delivery estimates on product pages, cart, checkout, emails, and WooCommerce orders.

It supports:

✅ Product page delivery estimates
✅ Amazon-style “Order within…” countdowns
✅ Shipping method rules
✅ Product-level lead times
✅ Holidays and working days
✅ Backorder and made-to-order products
✅ Delivery Promise Tester
✅ Saved order delivery estimates

Available now from WPRuby.

Show accurate WooCommerce delivery dates on product pages, cart, checkout, emails, and orders using cutoff times, holidays, stock status, and rules.

22/06/2026

We’ve just released a major update to our Royal Mail WooCommerce plugin: Royal Mail Click & Drop integration is now available.

Store owners can now create and manage Click & Drop orders directly from WooCommerce, with support for shipment details, customs-related fields, product variation data, order deletion, connection testing, and improved logging.

This update is designed to make Royal Mail fulfillment smoother, more reliable, and easier to manage from inside WordPress.

Read the full announcement here:

Create and manage Royal Mail Click & Drop orders from WooCommerce, with better shipment data, customs support, order deletion, and connection testing.

20/05/2026

🚚 Are your "free shipping" rules quietly eating into your profit margins?

Default WooCommerce shipping zones are static. If you try to offer a single nationwide free shipping threshold, you end up overcharging local buyers and undercharging—or losing money on—distant ones.

Stacking dozens of duplicate shipping zones or relying on messy custom code just creates checkout bugs.

In our latest guide, we show you the clean solution using RuleHook. Learn how to easily set up dynamic checkout rules—like a $50 threshold for Texas and a $90 threshold for Alaska—without page reloads or code hacks.

Protect your margins while keeping checkout seamless for your customers. 👇
📖 Read the full step-by-step setup guide here: https://wpruby.com/free-shipping-thresholds-by-state-woocommerce/