How does Shipping work?
From Spiffy Stores Knowledge Base
When a customer purchases items from your store, you're generally going to need to ship these items to the customer, so you will need some way of calculating the cost of shipping so that you can add that cost to the order.
No Shipping Required
Of course, not all items need shipping and you can configure which product variations need to be shipped by clicking on the variation on the product page and bringing up the edit dialog. Just click on the "Shipping" bar to show all the shipping options, and then select "No shipping required" from the selection box.
When you're finished, click on "Save Variation".
Shipping Options
Of course, normally you will want to ship your products, so make sure you understand all of the shipping options that can be configured for a product variation.
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Shipping Rate Types
Weight-based Shipping Rates
The most common form of shipping rate is based upon the total weight of the items in the shopping cart.
In order to use a weight-based shipping rate, you will need to define one or more shipping rates, and specify the range of weights that to which the rate applies.
For example, if you define a weight-based shipping rate for the weight range of 0 kgs to 20 kgs, then this rate will apply if the total weight of all items in the shopping cart is greater than or equal to 0 kgs and less than 20 kgs.
Note: All shipping rate ranges (weight or price) are matched if the total weight or price of the items in the shopping cart is greater than or equal to the low value and less than the high value.
This means that you can define multiple shipping rates, each covering a specific range without any overlap or gaps in the range. For example,
0kg - 5kg Range 1 5kg - 10kg Range 2 10kg - 20kg Range 3
As weight-based shipping rates are based upon weight, it is important that you provide an accurate weight for each of your product variations. Please also allow for any extra weight that is added in the form of packaging.
If a customer orders multiple quantities of the same product variation, then the total weight for that item equals the weight you specified for the variation times the number of items ordered.
A weight-based shipping rate can have either a fixed price or the shipping cost can be calculated automatically by using one of the provided Shipping Agents.
Spiffy Stores supports a number of Shipping Agents, such as Australia Post, New Zealand Post and FedEx. In future months, we will be expanding our list of supported agents.
Price-based Shipping Rates
You can also add in your own shipping costs of you would like to offer different types of courier services, or would like to charge flat rate shipping. Again these are all based on the total weight of the products that your customers are ordering.
NOTE Currently Spiffy Stores are only available to Australian businesses & individuals. When we launch the worldwide service, our shipping calculators will work with other shipping providers such as USPS in the USA.