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1. Free Shipping

Free shipping is a great way to encourage customers to spend more. For example, offer free shipping on orders over $100.

Please see our Shipping Zones guide and create zones to begin using.

 

Setup and Configuration

1. Go to Online Store > Settings > Shipping.

2. Select a Shipping Zone and it will bring you into the selected Shipping Zone page.

3. Click Add Shipping Method.

5. Select Free Shipping from the dropdown and Click Add Shipping Method.

6. Back to the selected Shipping Zone page, Click Free Shipping.

7. Enter a Title that displays to customers during checkout.

8. Select Free Shipping Requires… from the dropdown:

  • N/A – Not available, Free Shipping is an option for all customers.
  • A valid free shipping coupon – Customers required to have a coupon that entitle for free shipping. (Read article on how to create coupon.)
  • A minimum order amount – Set the minimum order amount that entitle for free shipping.
  • A minimum order amount OR a coupon
  • A minimum order amount AND a coupon

 

2. Local Pickup

Local Pickup is a method that allows the customer to pick up the order themselves.

Please see our Shipping Zones guide and create zones to begin using.

 

Setup and Configuration

1. Go to Online Store > Settings > Shipping.

2. Select a Shipping Zone and it will bring you into the selected Shipping Zone page.

3. Click Add Shipping Method.

5. Select Local Pickup from the dropdown and Click Add Shipping Method.

6. Back to the selected Shipping Zone page, Click Local Pickup.

7. Enter the required information and click Save Changes.:

  • Title – Enter a title that displays to customers in checkout.
  • Tax Status – Define whether or not tax is applied to the shipping amount.
  • Cost – Cost for this option.

 

Customer Cart View and Checkout View

Customers residing in the zone with this shipping option are able to select this in the cart and during checkout.

 

3. Flat Rate Shipping

Flat Rate Shipping allows you define a standard rate per item, per shipping class or per order.

Flat Rate Shipping works with Product Shipping Classes, adding more power and flexibility.

Please see our Shipping Zones guide and create zones to begin using.

 

Setup and Configuration

1. Go to Online Store > Settings > Shipping.

2. Select a Shipping Zone and it will bring you into the selected Shipping Zone page.

3. Click Add Shipping Method.

5. Select Flat Rate from the dropdown and Click Add Shipping Method.

6. Back to the selected Shipping Zone page, Click Local Pickup.

7. Enter the required information and click Save Changes.:

  • Title – Enter a title that displays to customers in checkout.
  • Tax Status – Define whether or not tax is applied to the shipping amount.
  • Cost – This is applied to the entire cart. Add additional costs per item to this field. See Advanced Costs below. This can be left blank to disable Flat Rate except where costs are added for Shipping Classes. Note that what you enter here may factor into the overall cost in the Shipping Classes section (see below), unless you leave it blank.

 

Shipping Class Cost

If you have shipping classes, the interface adds a few more fields:

  • There is one cost field for each shipping class.
  • No Shipping Class Cost -  Useful if you use the Per Class option below. Otherwise use the Cost field.
  • Calculation Type – Two options:
    • Per order – Picks the most expensive option based on shipping costs in the cart.
    • Per Class – Charges shipping for each shipping class.

 

4. Table Rate Shipping

Table Rate Shipping makes it possible for you to create complex rules for shipping your products. To use this feature, you need to activate the Table Rate Shipping App.

Click here to read the article on how to use Table Rate Shipping.

 

5. [Demo] How to set up Free Shipping for some products and Flat Rate for the rest

If you would like to offer Free Shipping on some of your products but charge a Flat Rate for others, the best way to set this up is using Shipping Classes. In this use case, we have set up 3 shipping classes: Free Shipping, Regular Shipping, and Expedited Shipping.

Once we have all the products added to their respective shipping classes, we can use the following settings to allow for the products in the Free Shipping class to not charge for shipping, while all the other products do.

By setting the Free Shipping class cost to use 0 * [qty], no matter how many products from that class are added to the cart, the shipping cost will not increase. However, products in the Expedited Shipping class will cost $20 per product from that class (because we’re using 20 * [qty]) while Regular Shipping class products and products that have no shipping class will cost $10 per product to ship (as we’re using 10 * [qty] for each of those options).

This means that if you have one product from each of our three shipping classes, the total Flat Rate cost will be $30 ($20 for one Expedited Shipping product, $10 for one Regular Shipping product, and $0 for one Free Shipping product).

The Cost field allows you to charge a flat rate per item, a percentage based cost or a minimum fee.

Available placeholders:

  • [qty] – Number of products in the cart
  • [fee] – An additional fee. This fee has two optional arguments.
    • percent – A percentage based on total order cost.
    • min_fee – A minimum amount. Useful when using percentages.

Examples

  • 10 + ( 2 * [qty] ) – A base shipping cost of $10 plus $2 for each item in the cart.
  • 20 + [fee percent="10" min_fee="4"] – A base shipping cost of $20 plus 10% of the order total, which is at least $4.

 

 

 

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