43
WooCommerce Shipping
The label printer that costs more and does less.
GrowingReview burstPoor rating
43/100
Users report that this version is a downgrade with higher rates and fewer features.
Active installs
~133,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 70k+
Rating
2.1★
17 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+41%
Growing fast
598 → 842 installs/day
Warnings
- Distributed from inside Automattic's main product (Jetpack / WooCommerce / Akismet ecosystem) — growth is partly captive.
- Reviews concentrated in a single month — usually a marketing push or paid wave.
What to watch out for
- MAJORverified rating is 2.06★
- MAJOR35% of reviews in one month (2024-10-12)
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +41% in the last year
598/day a year ago→842/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayWooCommerce Shipping is a label-purchasing plugin that has frustrated many users with a disruptive migration from the older Shipping & Tax plugin, a recent and contested USPS rate increase, and missing workflow features, though a small number of users appreciate its cost savings and responsive support.
What people like
- +Responsive and helpful developer support×2
- +Meaningful cost savings on DHL shipping rates
- +Developers have addressed some major bugs in follow-up releases
Common complaints
- −USPS shipping rates are now noticeably higher than competing platforms such as Pirateship and Shippo, with support attributing the gap to structural differences rather than acknowledging a change×2
- −No ability to purchase an additional label for an already-completed or returned order×3
- −Installing this plugin disables USPS live rates and breaks the legacy WooCommerce Shipping & Tax plugin, potentially preventing customers from checking out without warning×3
- −Bulk/batch label printing is not supported; each label must be processed individually, and printing wastes paper with blank space
- −Persistent, undismissable dashboard notification (UPS Ground Saver promo) reappears dozens of times per day
- −Weight entry requires decimal pounds rather than whole ounces, creating a confusing user experience
- −Migration from the old plugin lost custom package sizes and settings, and the new interface requires significantly more clicks for common tasks×2
- −Plugin name and description are misleading — it only handles label purchasing, not shipping method/rate display at checkout
- −Reported to have broken Stripe payment processing after activation, causing undetected order failures
- −Box packing algorithm (suggesting box sizes to packers) present in the old plugin is absent in this one (since 1.1.4)
Review trustMostly organic
- 2.06★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 2.10★
- 0%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 35% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-09-122025-08-082026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 17 total
Latest reviews · 17 analyzed
- 2026-05-22★★★★★Was great, now… not so muchusty00
- 2026-05-22★★★★★Pricing for USPS is no longer the best pricing availableZambu
- 2025-09-15★★★★★Good SupportKhaled Alkhamesi
- 2025-06-03★★★★★DON'T make a notification come back once I've cleared itartsgirl
- 2025-04-30★★★★★Excellent Plugin and SupportTim Gooch
- 2025-03-12★★★★★Huge pain to print lots of labelsnv7wp
- 2025-01-23★★★★★Sucks – and no option to re-purchase labelswomac911
- 2025-01-23★★★★★WAIT BEFORE “UPGRADING”! [REVISED]grangep
- 2024-11-05★★★★★OUNCES!snoopsbme
- 2024-10-30★★★★★Greedycleslie577
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to WooCommerce Shipping
Top WooCommerce plugins, ranked by score. 92
88
90
70
74
78
For developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
918
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
867
Prior 7-day baseline
949
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
21,556
Mean release-day peak (30d)
918
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+5.9%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
35%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.74
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
18%
5★ share in analyzed sample
0%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
—
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
2.06 → 2.06★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered