# Test a Small Order Fee on Real Orders

> Checks a suggested small order fee against your last 90 days of orders, so you see who pays it before it goes live.

- Job: [Pricing & wholesale](https://storeagent.ai/mcp-recipes/job/pricing/)
- What it does: Read only: looks, never changes anything
- Time saved: ~40 min vs doing it by hand
- Requires: StoreAgent (free plugin, MCP on every plan) + Extra Fees for WooCommerce
- Works in: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and any MCP client connected to the store through StoreAgent MCP
- Web page: https://storeagent.ai/mcp-recipes/extra-fees-small-order-check/

## The prompt

```text
I am thinking about a small order fee. Get the fee suggestions for my store and find the one based on cart subtotal. Then look at my completed orders from the last 90 days below that threshold. Tell me how many there are, what share of all orders they are, and how many came from repeat customers. List the 5 products that show up most in those small orders. Then tell me if the fee amount looks right or if a higher threshold or a free shipping nudge would work better. Do not change anything.
```

## What happens when you paste it

You: I am thinking about a small order fee…

Assistant: The suggestion is a $2.50 fee on carts under $25. 268 of your 1,240 orders were under $25. 61 of them came from repeat customers. Lip balm and sample packs show up in more than half of them. Calling: `wcpfc/suggest-best-fit-fees`, `woocommerce/orders-query`.

Assistant: The fee fits, but repeat buyers of sample packs may feel it most. Keep $2.50, and add a cart message that adding one more item over $25 removes the fee.

## Abilities this recipe calls

- **Suggest extra fees** (`wcpfc/suggest-best-fit-fees`, read only, from Extra Fees for WooCommerce): Looks at your recent orders and products and suggests up to five extra fees, with the reason and a revenue estimate for each.
- **Find orders** (`woocommerce/orders-query`, read only, from WooCommerce): Finds orders by status, customer, email or date, with the items in each order.

## Variations

Add one of these to the end of the prompt. Swap anything in [brackets] for your own details.

- Use a $30 threshold instead and compare the two.
- Split the small orders by country.

## Related recipes

- [Are My Product Add-On Prices Right?](https://storeagent.ai/mcp-recipes/ppom-option-price-audit.md): Check every priced option in your PPOM field groups for free extras, odd prices and groups that charge different amounts for the same thing.
- [Find the Extra Fees Your Store Is Missing](https://storeagent.ai/mcp-recipes/extra-fees-find-missing-fees.md): Ranks fee ideas from your own order data, such as a small order fee or a payment method fee, with the reason and monthly revenue for each.
- [Turn Fee Ideas Into Draft Fee Rules](https://storeagent.ai/mcp-recipes/extra-fees-draft-fee-rules.md): Picks the fee ideas worth testing and saves them as draft fee rules, so they are ready for review but not live at checkout.

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