Free Shipping Bar

Give the cart a finish line.

A running count against your free-shipping goal, printed where the shopper is already looking — so the gap stops being a guess and becomes a number they can close.

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A LUMÉ demo store, on its shop page. Floating over the lower corner of the page, with a close button, is the one element SalesMax draws — the form every first-party rendering of this booster shows; which form a live store gets is still unpublished: a strip reading “Free shipping at $120.00 — $41.00 to go”, with a progress track filled to about two thirds. The $120.00 goal is LUMÉ’s own setting. The cart already holds one item, a Denim Jacket at $79.00, which is why the masthead tally reads $79.00 and the cart badge reads 1; $120.00 minus $79.00 is the $41.00 the strip is asking for. Below the strip the page is an ordinary WooCommerce archive: a breadcrumb, a filter rail listing categories and price bands, and a grid of six products — Ribbed Beanie at $12.00, Classic White Tee at $18.00, Zip Hoodie at $54.00, Ankle Socks three-pack at $12.00, Canvas Tote Bag at $39.00 and Crossbody Bag at $45.00. A pointer crosses to the beanie and presses Add to cart once. The tally counts to $91.00, the badge steps to 2, and the strip’s remainder falls to $29.00 as its track fills further. The pointer then travels up the full height of the page to rest on the strip itself, because reading that sentence is the whole point of it. It comes back down to the Canvas Tote Bag and presses Add to cart. The tally counts to $130.00; part-way through that count the total passes $120.00, and at that instant the strip rewrites itself to read “Free shipping unlocked — no delivery charge on this order”, its track fills completely and a Free shipping pill lights. The money keeps climbing past the line to $130.00, where the badge steps to 3. The gap had been $29.00 and the bag cost $39.00, so the cart finishes $10.00 past the goal. Nothing navigates, nothing floats over the page, no popup appears, and nothing is added to any real cart: the two Add to cart buttons light and that is all. The masthead, the filter rail, the breadcrumb, the six tile names and prices and the $120.00 goal never change. After a pause the page is cut back to its opening state and the loop restarts; that cut is instant, never an animation, because a remainder seen counting upwards would stage a shopper removing an item, which never happens here.

LUMÉ is a demo store — the prices are its catalogue’s and the $120.00 goal is its own example.

▲ +30% AOV** Printed here because SalesMax’s own landing card prints it — and it is the only place it comes from. Our own booster registry holds no figure at all for it — as it holds none for eight other boosters. The +30% traces to 8theme’s marketing page, whose sentence is “Free shipping offers can increase AOV by up to 30”, credited by 8theme to Shopify and published with no study and no measurement of its own. Read it as 8theme’s unsourced claim for offers of this type — not a study, not a promise and not a SalesMax measurement. No per-booster reporting is documented, so your own number is yours to measure.

A LUMÉ demo store, on its shop page. Floating over the lower corner of the page, with a close button, is the one element SalesMax draws — the form every first-party rendering of this booster shows; which form a live store gets is still unpublished: a strip reading “Free shipping at $120.00 — $41.00 to go”, with a progress track filled to about two thirds. The $120.00 goal is LUMÉ’s own setting. The cart already holds one item, a Denim Jacket at $79.00, which is why the masthead tally reads $79.00 and the cart badge reads 1; $120.00 minus $79.00 is the $41.00 the strip is asking for. Below the strip the page is an ordinary WooCommerce archive: a breadcrumb, a filter rail listing categories and price bands, and a grid of six products — Ribbed Beanie at $12.00, Classic White Tee at $18.00, Zip Hoodie at $54.00, Ankle Socks three-pack at $12.00, Canvas Tote Bag at $39.00 and Crossbody Bag at $45.00. A pointer crosses to the beanie and presses Add to cart once. The tally counts to $91.00, the badge steps to 2, and the strip’s remainder falls to $29.00 as its track fills further. The pointer then travels up the full height of the page to rest on the strip itself, because reading that sentence is the whole point of it. It comes back down to the Canvas Tote Bag and presses Add to cart. The tally counts to $130.00; part-way through that count the total passes $120.00, and at that instant the strip rewrites itself to read “Free shipping unlocked — no delivery charge on this order”, its track fills completely and a Free shipping pill lights. The money keeps climbing past the line to $130.00, where the badge steps to 3. The gap had been $29.00 and the bag cost $39.00, so the cart finishes $10.00 past the goal. Nothing navigates, nothing floats over the page, no popup appears, and nothing is added to any real cart: the two Add to cart buttons light and that is all. The masthead, the filter rail, the breadcrumb, the six tile names and prices and the $120.00 goal never change. After a pause the page is cut back to its opening state and the loop restarts; that cut is instant, never an animation, because a remainder seen counting upwards would stage a shopper removing an item, which never happens here.

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Free Shipping Bar Counts the cart total — no source names a page
Goal Order Discount

Where it shows

Nobody has published where.

So this section shows states, not positions: the three sentences a threshold bar has to get right, and what the cart totals look like under each.

What no source places, and this page therefore does not claim.

8theme publishes no documentation for this booster — the index declares 12 articles and this is not one of them, both plausible URLs 404, and the marketing page names 17 boosters to the documentation’s 12. So nothing on this page is read off a published SalesMax article, because none exists. What has now been seen first-hand is the booster’s own admin — a Template panel with four designs (Minimal and Colorful, each as Circular or Bar Progress) and an Appearance → General tab with Section title, Highlight badge, Description, Min amount spend, Title success and Title badge success — and every SalesMax field this page names comes from those captures. Where the page shows any other shape it still names whose it is: WooCommerce’s or LUMÉ’s. 8theme calls it “Free shipping”; the word “Bar” is our suite’s.

An absence of source, not a documented absence: boosters that have articles publish these lists in detail — Free Gift names seven cart-page positions, six mini-cart positions and a shortcode. The admin panels have now been read first-hand, and the captured screens answer almost none of this list — the lines they touch say so; the rest is still asserted neither way:

  • Which pages it renders on. No position picker, no page-type list, no shortcode.
  • Sticky on scroll, and dismissible. Sticky is still nowhere. A close × is drawn on the card in the vendor’s marketing art and in the admin’s own preview — a dismiss control is depicted, though what dismissing remembers is not said.
  • Mini-cart, cart drawer, checkout. One 8theme thread asked about off-canvas placement and got a docs link, not an answer.
  • An empty cart, and a logged-out visitor. Never mentioned.
  • Whether it applies free shipping or only says so. Unpublished. See the control room.
  • Any name the bar prints. It prints none — the dashed SalesMax tag and the sweeping green outline on every drawing here are this page’s own marks, not the plugin’s: SalesMax prints no name and no outline on a storefront, and they are drawn so a reader can tell which single element in each picture is the booster’s. The masthead, the filters and the grid around it are WooCommerce’s, and the shop page is our reading: no source names a page.
  • What a goal is worth. In the demo the gap was $29.00 and the bag that closed it cost $39.00 — a goal sets a floor, not a price, and that $10.00 over the line is where an order-value claim actually comes from.

The wireframe draws a cart page because that is where the arithmetic it reports lives. The vendor’s own renderings of this booster draw something else: a corner card floating over a shop page, with a close ×. Both are depictions, not a placement setting — the surface is our reading; the arithmetic is LUMÉ’s.

Templates & appearance

Four templates, named in its own admin.

Four designs in the Template panel — Minimal and Colorful, each Circular or Bar. The drawing is ours; the fields are the General tab’s own.

Template
Progress
Accent (preview)
The vendor’s form: a floating corner card — over our cart-page staging

The math

The math, disclosed.

No offer and no extra line — this moves a cart toward a line it was near. Say 400 orders, 10 in 100 top up, $25 each: 400 × 10% × $25 = +$1,000/mo. Press the keys.

Monthly orders
400
Carts that top up
10%
Average top-up
$25
Extra order value example
added order value in this example

The control room

The bar is the sentence. The rule is a shipping zone.

The rule is WooCommerce’s screen below; the booster holds a second number, Min amount spend. Nothing says they sync — the strip over-promises.

Shipping zone → Free shipping WooCommerce

Tap the chips — the sentence rewrites itself. Every chip is a WooCommerce field; none is a SalesMax setting.

Free shipping requires…
Minimum order amount
Coupons discounts

What is on record
WooCommerce holds the rule

Settings → Shipping → your zone → Free shipping: N/A, a valid coupon, a minimum order amount, or either and both — plus a checkbox for reading that minimum before or after coupon discounts. Per zone, so a threshold right at home can be wrong one border away. Set this rule yourself, to the same number the booster reports.

What is still unpublished
The threshold, and what counts toward it

Half-answered by the admin captures: the booster’s own goal field is Min amount spend, a plain number on its General tab — so the figure the strip reports is typed into SalesMax. Whether it can vary per currency or per zone, or sync with Woo’s own rule, is still unanswered. So is tax, whether a coupon lowers the figure the bar reads, whether shipping counts, rounding, and multi-currency. Test a coupon and a taxable cart before a sale.

Where you create it

It is built the way every booster in the suite is: SalesMax → Sales Boosters → + New Booster, then its own Template and Appearance panels. Nothing published enumerates that picker’s full list, so open it and look before you plan around a name.

Seen in its own admin
Templates, appearance — and what is still behind a tab

Its own admin confirms a Template panel of four designs and an Appearance panel with tabs General | Styling | Advanced; the General fields are drawn in the section above. What the Styling and Advanced tabs hold has not been seen, and no capture shows display conditions or a start / end date for this booster — so none of that is drawn.

Before you switch it on
A four-line checklist — ours, not the vendor’s

No troubleshooting list is published for this booster, so this is written from the mechanic. Set the zone rule and confirm free shipping really appears at checkout on a qualifying cart. Point the message at that number. Check a cart carrying a coupon. Then check a second zone — the rule is per zone, the message may not be.

What is not measured

An Analytics section exists plugin-wide. Nothing booster-specific is documented — no threshold-crossing rate, no per-bar reporting, no A/B split. Usage limits, translation, RTL and theme compatibility likewise.

FAQ

Questions merchants actually ask

Does the Free Shipping Bar actually make shipping free?

Not confirmed either way, because 8theme publishes no article for this booster. What its own admin does show is a message and a figure — Section title, Highlight badge, Description and a “Min amount spend” number — and nothing that writes a shipping rule. The rule that actually grants free shipping lives in a WooCommerce shipping zone, and nothing published says this booster reads or writes that zone. So the safe build is the same: set the rule yourself under WooCommerce → Settings → Shipping → your zone → Free shipping → “A minimum order amount”, then type that same number into the booster’s own “Min amount spend” field — nothing published says it syncs with the zone rule, so keeping the two equal is on you. A bar that promises what the zone does not deliver is worse than no bar at all.

Where does the bar appear on my store?

Unpublished as a setting — no article, no page-type list, no shortcode, and no position picker on any admin screen seen so far. What the vendor does draw, in its marketing art and its admin preview alike, is the widget floating over a shop page as a corner card with a close × — an illustration, not a placement contract. The “Where it shows” section above lists what that leaves unanswered: sticky on scroll, dismissible, the mini-cart, the cart drawer, and what a logged-out visitor with an empty cart sees. It is an absence of source, not a documented absence. The vendor’s own renderings put it over a shop page as a corner card; the two wireframes below the hero draw a cart page instead, because that is where the arithmetic lives — and their captions say the surface is our reading. The hero draws a shop page, and says so too.

What should I set the threshold to?

Nobody can hand you that number, and no documentation here tries. The trade is the one the hero works through above: a store gives away one delivery to take a larger order, and only the gap between them is a gain — so subtract what the delivery actually costs you before you call it one. The goal is typed into the booster’s own “Min amount spend” field — keep it equal to the zone rule by hand. Set it below your average order value and it mostly rewards carts that were already coming; set it far above and most carts never respond, which is the third state drawn in “Where it shows”. Whether the threshold can vary by currency or by shipping zone is not published.

Do coupons and taxes count toward the goal?

Not published for SalesMax. No article exists, and the admin captures now seen show where the goal is typed — a “Min amount spend” field of the booster’s own — but not whether progress is measured on the subtotal including or excluding tax, whether a discount code reduces the figure the bar reads, or whether the shipping charge itself counts toward it. WooCommerce’s own free-shipping rule answers one part of this for the rule, though not for the message: the minimum order amount can be evaluated before or after coupon discounts, and that is a checkbox you set per shipping zone. If the strip and the zone disagree about what a $120 cart is, the shopper meets the disagreement at checkout — which is the worst possible place to find it. Test one coupon and one taxable cart on a staging copy before you launch.

Why is there no documentation for this booster?

We do not know, and we are not going to invent a reason. The facts are these: 8theme’s booster documentation index declares twelve articles and this is not among them; both plausible URLs return 404; the documentation home page does not contain the string “Free Shipping” anywhere; and 8theme’s own marketing page names seventeen boosters. This is one of the five in that gap, alongside Stock Scarcity and Goal Order Discount — and the “Learn More” link beside all three lands on the documentation root rather than on an article. The booster is not in the page’s clearly labelled Coming Soon area, so it ships. Everything on this page that is not LUMÉ’s arithmetic, WooCommerce’s own platform behaviour or a first-party capture of the booster’s own admin is named as unclaimed, and that is the most we can honestly offer until an article exists.

Works well with

The rest of what a threshold can do.

This strip sets a line and says how far away it is. The row starts with the boosters that put a reward past a line, then runs through the rest of the suite.

Use the left and right arrow keys to scroll this list.

Goal Order Discount

“Spend $80, get 10% off” — tiered rewards that pull the total upward.

▲ +18% avg. spend*Learn more

Buy More, Save More

Tiered quantity discounts that make the bigger order the obvious choice.

▲ +30% order value*Learn more

Cart Add-ons

Offers shown right in the cart, on top of what the shopper already has.

▲ +10–30% revenue*Learn more

Frequently Bought Together

Show the products that naturally belong with this one, added in one click.

▲ +35% sales*Learn more

Smart Recommendations

Condition-based suggestions by category, cart contents, order history or totals.

▲ +31% revenue*Learn more

Product Add-Ons

Offer catalogue extras on the product page — ticked in one go, each with its own discount.

▲ +20% AOV*Learn more

Upsell Popups

A relevant offer the moment something is added to cart — one popup, not a maze.

▲ +20% conversions*Learn more

Stock Scarcity

Live inventory counts that create honest urgency — real stock levels, never fabricated.

▲ +17% conversions*Learn more

Live Sales Notifications

Subtle purchase notifications — from your real recent orders, or from name lists you write.

▲ +15% conversions*Learn more

Cart Page Upsells

Small upgrades and companion products, one tap from the cart summary.

▲ +29% sales*Learn more

Checkout Offers

A last relevant order bump right before payment — accepted with one checkbox.

▲ +35% conversions*Learn more

One-Click Double Order

Let buyers duplicate their purchase with a single click — popular for consumables and gifts.

▲ +73% uptake*Learn more

Thank You Page Offers

Upsells on the order-confirmation page, where trust is already established.

▲ up to 3.1% conversion*Learn more

Post-Purchase Offers

One-click additions right after “Place order” — no re-entering payment details.

▲ +10% revenue*Learn more

Next Order Coupon

A unique coupon — the reason they come back.

▲ +25% repeat orders*Learn more

* Industry benchmarks and vendor-observed averages for each booster type — not a guarantee.

Free Shipping Bar

One sentence, counting down to your line.

Show the line, and shoppers reach for it — with every other booster in the suite, on every plan, no feature gating, ever.

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