Shipping

ShopSite offers several different options for charging your customers for shipping. No matter what your merchandising strategy, you should be able to find a shipping method that meets your needs.

If you need to charge tax on shipping costs, you can enable that in Commerce Setup > Sales Tax. You should consult a tax expert on this, as shipping charges may or may not be taxable, depending on where your store is located, whether you add a "handling" charge, whether your shipping rates are exact or approximate, and whether passage of title occurs before or after you ship.

Select the shipping method of your choice and then click Configure. Note that you can enable both UPS and Simple Shipping by Weight, but all other shipping methods are mutually exclusive.

UPS Shipping by Weight

You can select UPS services for weight and zone-based shipping charges. ShopSite obtains the rates for each order directly from UPS.

Simple Shipping by Weight

You define a table of weights and charges for each shipping method that you enable.

Shipping by Currency

This is the simple table that many mail order catalogs use. The price of shipping corresponds to the total price of the products ordered.

Flat Shipping

Every order is charged the same rate no matter how many items are in the order. You can specify different rates for different shipping methods.

Flat Base Each Shipping

Every order is charged a flat base rate plus an additional charge for each product in the order. Orders with more products are charged higher shipping. This is an especially good system if all your products are approximately the same weight and size.

Flat Each Shipping

A flat shipping rate is charged for each item. You can specify different rates for different shipping methods.

Base Shipping

The shipping charge is the total of all the shipping charges for each product or the minimum shipping charge, whichever is greater.

Base Plus Shipping

The shipping charge is the total of all the shipping charges for each product plus the base shipping charge.

None

Selecting None will cause ShopSite to not display any shipping methods or shipping charges in the shopping cart.

Presentation Options

Select how you want the availale delivery methods displayed to customers in the shopping cart. Pull-down menus take less space and look neater, but using radio buttons lets the customer see all available methods without having to click an arrow.