# Is Your Free Shipping Bar Set Right?

> Compares your free shipping threshold in Modern Cart with your real order values from the last 60 days, so the bar nudges shoppers to add one more item.

- Job: [Marketing & promos](https://storeagent.ai/mcp-recipes/job/marketing/)
- What it does: Asks first: changes your store, only after you say yes
- Time saved: ~25 min vs doing it by hand
- Requires: StoreAgent (free plugin, MCP on every plan) + Modern Cart
- Works in: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and any MCP client connected to the store through StoreAgent MCP
- Web page: https://storeagent.ai/mcp-recipes/modern-cart-free-shipping-bar-check/

## The prompt

```text
Check if my free shipping bar is set at the right amount. Read my Modern Cart settings and tell me if the free shipping bar is on and what its message says. Get the free shipping threshold from the cart summary. Then look at my completed WooCommerce orders from the last 60 days. Tell me my average order value, how many orders landed within $15 below the threshold and how many cleared it. Do not change anything. Then tell me if I should raise, lower or keep the threshold, and why.
```

## What happens when you paste it

You: Check if my free shipping bar is set at the right amount…

Assistant: The free shipping bar is on with a $75 threshold. Your average order over the last 60 days was $58. 41 of 312 orders landed between $60 and $75, and 64 cleared $75. Calling: `moderncart/get-settings`, `moderncart/get-cart-summary`, `woocommerce/orders-query`.

Assistant: This will make changes in WooCommerce. Do you want me to go ahead?

Assistant: Keep the $75 threshold. It sits about 30% above your average order, and 64 orders already clear it. Change the bar message to name the amount left, for example: You are $12 away from free shipping.

## Abilities this recipe calls

- **Read side cart settings** (`moderncart/get-settings`, asks first, from Modern Cart): Reads every Modern Cart setting: where the cart shows, its style, coupon field, colors and button text.
- **Check the free shipping bar** (`moderncart/get-cart-summary`, asks first, from Modern Cart): Shows cart totals, applied coupons and how far the cart is from the free shipping threshold.
- **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 the last 90 days instead.
- Show me the five products most often in orders just under the threshold.

## Related recipes

- [Build a Notification Bar for My Sale](https://storeagent.ai/mcp-recipes/notificationx-sale-announcement-bar.md): Finds the products on sale in WooCommerce, drafts a NotificationX notification bar for the sale and saves it switched off once you approve it.
- [Is My Sales Popup Showing Real Orders?](https://storeagent.ai/mcp-recipes/notificationx-sales-popup-check.md): Checks that your NotificationX sales popup is live, pulls from WooCommerce and has fresh orders to show, so the social proof is never stale.
- [Check Funnel Checkouts Before You Send Traffic](https://storeagent.ai/mcp-recipes/cartflows-checkout-product-audit.md): Finds funnel checkouts that load an out of stock, unpublished or deleted product, or no product at all, before shoppers find them first.

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Part of the StoreAgent WooCommerce MCP Recipes directory: https://storeagent.ai/mcp-recipes/ (index for LLMs: https://storeagent.ai/mcp-recipes/llms.txt). Get StoreAgent free: https://app.storeagent.ai/sign-up/