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Tangible Goods Shipping Plans Creator
Automatically Add Shipping and Delivery Charges
The powerful shipping controls available allow you to create shipping plans which fully capture the tariffs of whichever shipping company you use. Your shipping plans are capable of capturing different charges for different order weights, delivery countries and taxes. ecommerceExpress will then be able to automatically calculate the customer's delivery costs and add these to their order during checkout.
Shipping and Delivery Plan Creators
Create simple fixed cost or advanced weight and delivery country shipping plans.
The advanced shipping plan creator gives you the power to create a shipping plan which models your chosen delivery companies tariff. Using your product manager you assign a weight value to each of your products. When the customer checks out, ecommerceExpress determines the total order weight and applies your shipping plan to calculate a delivery cost and adds this amount to the order.
- Country Sales Management : Control which countries you are able to dispatch customer orders to so that on checkout people may only select one of those countries to have their order delivered to. You control the list of countries which are available to your shoppers at checkout.
- Delivery Charges by Weight : Automatically have the total weight of all the items in the order calculated and delivery costs added to the customer's order based on the closest matching weight in your shipping plan.
- Delivery Charges by Country : Automatically have different delivery costs calculated and added to the customer's order based on the country they want your products delivered to.
- Delivery Zones : Group countries together which have the same delivery charges into delivery zones so that you define the delivery charges for all the countries in the same zone in one go.
- Multiple Shipping Plans : Create multiple shipping plans so as to offer your customers a choice of different delivery options, resulting in different shipping charges being added to their order based on which one they choose. For instance, you have a standard delivery option taking 5 days, but you might also offer a more expensive 48 hour delivery option.
- Multi-Currency Shipping Charges : With ecommerceExpress multi-currency pricing, a customer is able to see exactly what the shipping and delivery charges will cost them, in their own currency!
Shipping Plan Example
So that you may fully appreciate the capabilities of the advanced Shipping & Delivery Plan creator, let us take a look at a typical delivery cost matrix from a Shipping company.The example below shows the shipping tariff, from 'ABC Delivery Company', for a U.K. based merchant shipping their products to local and global destinations. It could just as easily be a merchant in any other country.
| Example Delivery Tariff & Transit Guide | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zone Number | Zone 1 | Zone 2 | Zone 3 | Zone 4 |
| Parcel Destination | UK | EU | USA & Canada | Rest Of World |
| Value Added Tax (VAT) | 17.5% | 17.5% | 0% | 0% |
| Weight Limits (kg) | Prices | |||
| Less than 0.5 kg | £14.00 | £32.00 | £34.00 | £43.00 |
| Between 0.5 kg and 1 kg | £16.00 | £35.00 | £37.00 | £50.00 |
| Between 1 kg and 2 kg | £18.00 | £38.00 | £41.00 | £58.00 |
| Between 2 kg and 5 kg | £20.00 | £50.00 | £52.00 | £75.00 |
| Between 5 kg and 10 kg | £22.00 | £80.00 | £86.00 | £115.00 |
| Between 10 kg and 20 kg | £30.00 | £120.00 | £140.00 | £180.00 |
| Between 20 kg and 31.5 kg | £34.00 | £140.00 | £150.00 | £235.00 |
| Incremental charge per 0.5kg for exceeding 31.5kg | £2.00 | £3.00 | £3.75 | £7.50 |
- Each country which is subject to the same delivery tariffs has been placed into a group which is called a delivery zone. There are four different zones: Zone 1, Zone 2, Zone 3 and Zone 4
- We add each of the following weights to our shipping plan: 0.5Kg, 1Kg, 2Kg, 5Kg, 10Kg, 20Kg, and 31.5Kg
- For each of the distinct weights we added to the shipping plan, we define a cost for each of our zones. Orders with a weight value between any of these defined weights will be calculated using the next defined shipping plan weight greater than the order weight.
- To the 31.5Kg weight, we add an additional weight increment of 0.5kg and define a cost for this additional weight for each of our zones. Then, for every 0.5Kg above this base weight of 31.5Kg, we would add on the additional weight cost to the base weight. Say an order has a total weight of 33.5Kg, the order delivery cost would be calculated at the:
(Cost of the 31.5Kg Weight for Zone) + (4 x Cost of 0.5Kg Additional Weight Increment for Zone)
Country Sales Tax Order Cost Modifier
Pass on additional costs to the customer if their chosen delivery country charges you any import duties or other tariffs and taxes. Setup different tax rates to apply to customers orders depedant on which country they need to have their order delivered to.
- Add Tax Charges Before Adding Shipping Costs to The Order : The total order cost is calculated without shipping costs and then the specific tax rate cost you defined for the shoppers delivery country is clearly added to their order as a tax for delivery to their chosen country.
- Add Tax Charges After Adding Shipping Costs to The Order : The total order cost, including shipping costs, is calculated and then the specific tax rate cost you defined for the shoppers delivery country is clearly added to their order as a tax for delivery to their chosen country.
- Multi-Currency Tax Charges : With ecommerceExpress multi-currency pricing, a customer is able to see exactly what the order tax charge is in their own currency!