Custom Shipping Rates with Carrier Calculated Shipping

Default Shopify Shipping needs to be improved for Shopify stores, requiring a more complex and customized approach. It allows you to set up basic rates for a country, for example, but you can not expect more complex activity than that. It would help if you had a lot more parameters and conditions to calculate your rates accurately.

What is Postcode Shipping?

Postcode Shipping is a Shopify Shipping App tailored for Shopify merchants to start calculating precise and transparent shipping rates.

Postcode Shipping directly saves Shopify merchants money by avoiding losses due to surprise shipping costs. It calculates shipping rates based on location or product parameters and helps create powerful and flexible delivery charges. With Postcode Shipping, you will control how shipping rates are calculated and displayed at checkout.

Postcode Shipping can manage complex shipping setups, including unique models like offshore and multi-ZIP code shipping. It is a favourite among dropshipping stores because of its feature of calculating unique rates for specific products and product groups. It streamlines the daunting processes of international shipping and makes it easy to handle local deliveries and global shipping.

With Postcode Shipping, you can:

• Calculate shipping rates based on product weight, product quantity, cart content, and more
• Set up shipping rates for countries, regions, neighborhoods, and even postcodes & zipcodes
• Set up rate tiers to provide extensive shipping support on a local & global basis
• Offer unique shipping rates for product groups

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The Benefits of Calculating Custom Shipping Rates

Unexpected shipping costs can eat into your profits, and not calculating accurate and transparent shipping rates can lead to overcharging or undercharging customers. And it is well known that high or unclear shipping costs are a leading cause of cart abandonment.

Controlling how shipping rates are calculated and displayed at checkout decreases abandoned cart occurrences. By providing precise and transparent shipping rates, you build trust with your customers, encouraging them to complete their purchases.

By using the Postcode Shipping App to calculate your shipping rates, you can focus on your store's sales while we take care of your shipping strategy.

How to calculate custom shipping rates

A seamless and cost-effective shipping strategy that benefits both you and your customers is possible.

1. Set up your Shopify Shipping Settings

• Add your Shipping Location
• From your Shopify dashboard, go to "Settings" and "Add Location" from the dropdown menu
• Fill in the Address information and check the Fulfillment details box if you want
• Set up your Shipping Profile

To set up effective custom shipping rates, start by understanding your shipping requirements:

Product Dimensions and Weight: Accurately measure and weigh your products to ensure precise shipping costs

Shipping Destinations: Identify the regions and countries you will ship to.

You can manage the general shipping rate if you want to use the default Shipping rates. If you decide to use product-based shipping, you must create different profiles for different product groups.

• Create a Custom Shipping Profile

To Create custom shipping rates, you must "Create a new profile." Add "Profile name," "Add Products," and start creating "Shipping Zones" in the shipping To box. After setting up shipping zone names, nations, and areas, click "Done" to save the settings.

Click "Add Rate" to create a unique shipping rate for each shipping zone. Then, select the rate details to confirm the Shipping rates and click "Done."

• Create Shipping Zones

You must create Shopify shipping zones in the shipping segment, which is a group of countries or regions with a commontariff.

Add any pricing for the specific zones, and don't forget to click "Save."

Set/Create Shopify Shipping Rates:

After creating a shipping profile and zones, you can start creating shipping rates for each profile individually. Default Shopify Shipping offers flat shopify shipping rates, calculated shopify shipping rates, and discounted and free shipping rates.

The option to "Add Conditions" is based on product weight or price, and you will have to enter a minimum and maximum value for selected criteria.

Calculate custom shipping rates

You decided to take control of your shipping rates and install Postcode Shipping. As a third-party shipping service, it offers extreme customization based on your requirements and can calculate shipping rates by location or product parameters.

To start receiving the Rates you create in PostCode Shipping, you will need to enable Postcode Shipping as the rates provider.

In Shopify Settings, click "Shipping & Delivery," click Manage Rates + Add Rates, and select "Use carrier or app to determine tariffs" from the menu.

Do the same for any other Shipping Zones.

Note: you'll only need to do this once for each Shipping Zone, as you're not adding rates; you're just connecting the Shopify Shipping Zones to the rates you've already created in the Postcode Shipping app.

The last thing you need to do is

Save your changes.

Now that you've set up your Shopify store to use any Rates you create in Postcode Shipping, you can automatically create your Shipping Zones, Regions, and Rates in Postcode Shipping.

Make sure to have Carrier Calculated Shipping (CCS) module.

To install and use Postcode Shipping, you will need the Carrier Calculated Shipping (CCS) module within your Shopify store. This module facilitates your store's ability to retrieve rates from an external shipping app. Stores on the Shopify Advanced and Plus plans have access to the Carrier Service API, which means that if you install Postcode Shipping, it'll run smoothly.

Stores on the 'Shopify' won't have the Carrier Service feature, but you can request access by contacting Shopify support.

If your requirements are extremely customized, you need an APP to Calculate shipping rates

Postcode Shipping will be a game-changer for your online business! It's seamless integration and easy-to-set-up shipping restrictions based on preferred parameters will ensure smooth deliveries every time.

With our prompt customer support and intuitive interface, managing shipping logistics has never been easier.

Using this APP, you can create flexible delivery rates:

• Custom shipping rates by location
• Rate based on weight, quantity, and more
• Surcharge Shipping
• Unique Rates for Product Groups
• Test Delivery Rates Easily with Sandbox
• Global rate modifiers for change across all shipping rates

Or contact us at support@postcodeshipping.com for personal assistance.

We can help you set up your configurations in no time.

Let us know if you need extra help getting things set up. We can work directly with your configurations to help you set up your shipping rates on Shopify.