WAIT BEFORE “UPGRADING”! – [WooCommerce Shipping] Review

DO NOT upgrade from Shipping & Tax until you absolutely must. The Woo team needs time to make this right.

I’m utterly confused as to how this plugin made it to production. Shipping & Tax was a feature-rich, fully functional extension with nearly a million active installs. How did the Woo team come to the conclusion that this version was ready, or that it should be marketed as an “upgrade”?

TAKE NOTE: There is not a single new feature in the plugin that is not available in the latest version of Shipping & Tax, and many essential functions of the old version were removed without warning.

• USPS rate quotes in cart/checkout are gone. You have to pay $109/year to get them back.
• Usability is worse. The process of purchasing labels takes more clicks and more steps.
• Many small, but essential features are removed. Specifically, re-purchasing new labels for an order, auto-validation of addresses, modifying/deleting saved package templates.
• Many bugs!

Shop owners who upgrade without this warning will be left scrambling to revert, or deal with it. Betrayal of trust. ONE STAR.

I’ll update this review when this plugin truly resembles an upgrade.