Overview

There are many situations in which you may want to offer a item for free shipping for your customers. Here's a list of the various ways to do just that:

Item Configuration options

There are multiple locations within the item editor in which an item may be configure for free shipping. The first one appears at the shipping section of the item/kit tab.

Item editor Item or Kit Tab - Shipping Section

Item and Kit Editor- Auto Order Tab

Auto Order items  can be configured with a Free shipping option also.

For Customer Selectable Auto Order Type, check as shown below:

For "Automatic Auto Order Type", the setting appears in the "Options" section:

Shipping Tab of the Item Editor

There are two places within the Shipping Tab that free shipping may be configured.

1) The General Settings Section of The main Shipping Tab as shown below:

2) The Method Specific Options Sub Tab

Since this section let's you specify the specific Free Shipping methods, you do not have to separately configure the shipping method with the "Qualifies For Free Shipping" setting.

Coupons

There are a number of Coupon Types that can be configured that will allow for free shipping: