Shipping profile

• The 'Shipping Profile' interface facilitates to define the shipping charges based on the different scenarios. It consists of Shipping Codes, Modes and Zones.

Shipping Modes:

• The shipping mode is a way of shipping the goods. It is the combination of a shipping company and shipping service offered by that company.
  • Example: Aramex - Express, Aramex - Domestic, Blue Dart - Air, etc…
    
    
• The shipping modes are visible to the customers in the storefront for selection during the checkout. If a 'shipping mode' is used in multiple 'shipping codes', and those 'shipping codes' are associated with a single product, when any user opts that 'shipping mode', the combined charges will be applied to that product. Hence, care must be taken while association.

Shipping Zones:

• Zones are geographical regions or jurisdiction area representing a Country, State or Territory, or City to which you ship goods. You can allocate different Shipping changes as per zone.

Shipping Codes:

• The Shipping Codes are used for associating with your products for applying the shipping charges.
  
  
• You can configure a location against each shipping code if you have enabled the location wise shipping charges.
  
  
• You can also ensure the delivery area wise shipping charges by selecting the required areas.
  
  
• If shipping is not free, you can define the exclusive charges for the 'COD' shipping and 'Prepaid' shipping.

Shipping Methods:

• Shipping Methods represent the base for calculating the shipping Charges. There are four types of shipping methods:

• Flat: Customer will be charged a specific flat amount for each product in an order
• Weight: Customer will be charged as per the weight of the individual product in an order
• Cart Weight: Customer will be charged as per the total weight of all products (Cart Weight) in an order
• Cart Amount: Customer will be charged as per the total amount of all products (Cart Amount) in an order

If the Cart contains different products and the 'Shipping Codes' associated to those products are based on multiple 'Shipping Methods' i.e. (Flat, Weight, Cart Weight and Cart Amount) then 'Cart Amount' will be applied first for the whole Cart. If Cart Amount is not there, then Cart Weight will be applied (if available) for whole cart. If only 'Weight' and 'Flat' based are 'Shipping Codes' are there, then the charges will be applied to the individual products on 'Weight' and 'Cart' basis respectively. If multiple 'Cart Amount' based 'Shipping Methods' are there in a single order, then the 'Cart Amount' that is at first in the Cart will be considered first. If 'Cart Amount' based 'Shipping Methods' are not there and multiple 'Cart Weight' based shipping methods are there, then the 'Cart Weight' that is at first in the Cart will be applied. If a single product is consisting multiple 'Cart Amount' based 'Shipping Codes' then the 'Cart Amount' that is matching to the 'Shipping Zone' will be considered. In this case first 'City' will be considered, then 'State' and at last 'Country'. If a single product is consisting multiple 'Cart Weight' based 'Shipping Codes' then the 'Cart Weight' that is matching to the 'Shipping Zone' will be considered. In this case first 'City' will be searched, then 'State' and at last 'Country'. If a single product is consisting multiple 'Flat' based 'Shipping Codes' then the 'Flat' amount that is matching to the 'Shipping Zone' will be considered. In this case first 'City' will be searched, then 'State' and at last 'Country'. If a single product is consisting multiple 'Weight' based 'Shipping Codes' then the 'Weight' based charge that is matching to the 'Shipping Zone' will be considered. In this case first 'City' will be searched, then 'State' and at last 'Country'. In 'Weight' based or 'Cart Weight' based charges, if the 'Weight' or 'Cart Weight' is out of defined range, then the charges of the last range X 2 will be applied.

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