Introduction to shipping & handling

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  Shipping & Handling

The Shipping & Handing section is where you specify which regions you ship to and how much your customers will have to pay for it. Shipping is based on the weight of your products... so when you're adding new products you need to add weights in right from the start.

Spiffy Stores ties in with Australia Post very nicely, so standard Parcel Post & Express Post postage rates are calculated for your customer automatically in the checkout when you add these options in on the "Shipping & Handling" page in your Toolbox.

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.

You may need to do a bit of research to make sure the numbers here are appropriate for your actual costs. It is up to you how specific you want to get with shipping rates for various weights, but keep in mind that customers will probably appreciate having as few rates to remember as possible when they are deciding what to put in their shopping cart.

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.

Read more about Setting up custom shipping rates, or Using Australia Post Shipping.