Shipping is one of the most important aspects of any business, and make sure your shipping system is transparent and easy to understand by your customers. The consequences of online shipping are even more complex when it's come to online sales. This is because the online business platform can be sold to many countries, states or particular zone locations and has many types of shipping value.
I.AM.RETAILER just resolved all your problems in one solution of weight base shipping method. Are you excited to see how?
Let’s take a tour by exploring the setup of Zones and Geo zones.
Geo-zone to help you define a region to customize to include the region of your choice.
You can add zones from many countries. This allows you to create a set for a specific area or region for shipping. E.g. India is divided into parts of the states. States are called zones here
I think you now understand about zones. If you are still confused, take a look through the screenshot
Description: Give a short description of Geo zone.
Click the + button to add a new geo zone.
County: Choose the zone country.
Zone: You can select the zone of the selected country
Now our country, zone and geo zone are ready, let's create particular zones of weight base shipping.
Next, Setup the weight base shipping
Rates: This includes standard weight: Cost, Weight: Cost, Weight: Cost etc. (so if you want to ship 1kg for Rs.30, you have to enter at 1: 30.00)
Status: Decide whether to enable this shipping for this geo zone.
Finally, check that zones rates and status are filled and pressing the 'Save' button in the upper right corner will save the information.
Congratulations !!! Now your store shipping calculation is enabled for your customer, which will help your customers make informed decisions before they make a purchase.
Let's take a look at how the shipping calculation works from the front end of your store