This page contains your store-wide shipping settings, cost, and refund policy. You can enable/disable shipping for your products and override these shipping costs when creating or editing a product.
You can set up your shipping policies and your default shipping costs.
For Shipping Policies, you can select your standard processing time for an order and then write your shipping and refund policy.
You can then set up simple fixed-rate shipping costs, which can be overridden by product-specific shipping costs. To do this, click the ‘If you want to configure zone-wise shipping, then Click Here’ part.
To begin with, House of Assets will be trading only in the UK. HoA has set up three UK zones: Scotland Highlands & Islands, Northern Ireland, and the rest of the UK. If you want to charge different shipping prices for all three, you must set up all three. If you want to charge the same for the whole of the UK, then just set up ‘United Kingdom’. During checkout, the platform will take the customer’s address, and if their postcode does not fall within the first two Zones (or if you have not set up these zones), then it will default to the third zone.
You can select from three shipping methods for each zone: Flat Rate, Local Pickup, or Free Shipping. You can also combine these.
From here, a vendor can add shipping methods by clicking on Edit or Add Shipping Method.
A new page will open.From here, vendors can limit their customers’ zone locations and add new shipping methods.
To add shipping methods, vendors must click Add Shipping Method and select one from the drop-down.
In this way, vendors can add unlimited shipping methods. By hovering over the Shipping Method, vendors can edit and delete. The toggle button can be used to enable/disable a shipping method.
Vendors can also limit zone location using postcodes that apply to customers purchasing from that zone.
If you click Edit on your Shipping Method, you can then setup:
Each Shipping Zone can have different (and multiple) Flat Rates if you wish.
Shipping classes won’t apply unless the vendor specifies from Edit Product.
The Admin needs to first create the shipping class (as shown above) before the vendor can access them from his dashboard.
The vendor can specify shipping class costs for all the shipping classes that admins have created. Vendors will be able to access these classes for the Flat Rate method only.
The vendor can specify their own conditional rates for the shipping classes.
Then select the cost when no shipping class will apply.
You can also select the Calculation Type:
In Local Pickup, customers can pick up the order themselves from a designated location.
1. To make changes, hover over the shipping method and click Edit.
2. Enter a Title that displays to customers at checkout – some shops change the title to Local Delivery, for example.
3. Enter Cost – The cost for the option is applied to the entire cart.
4. Select Tax Status. Then click on Save Changes.
Free shipping is a great way to encourage customers to spend more. For example, offer free shipping on orders over $100.
1. Enter a Title that displays to customers at checkout.
2. Enter a Minimum Order Amount (if applicable).
3. Click on Save Changes.
Using the Table Rate Shipping module, vendors can create complex rules for shipping products globally. Vendors can define multiple rates based on the product’s destination, have multiple rates per zone, and add rules based on product weight, the number of items, shipping class, and price.
Vendors can now calculate the shipping based on the distance using the Distance rate shipping feature. The cost will be calculated based on the distance from the vendor shipping location to the customer’s location.
Rules can be set up to charge shipping based on the distance and total travel time, or the number of items in the cart, the weight of the items, or the total value of the cart.
You can override default shipping prices if you want. The shipping costs are applied when you do not add any shipping cost to your product. But sometimes, you might need to override shipping costs depending on your product. So, for this reason, we have included a shipping override feature in products. To use this feature,
For existing products – you have to navigate to your product edit screen, which is yoursite.com → Dashboard → Products → Edit and navigate to the shipping section.
And for newly created products – The next screen after adding the basic details of a product navigate to the shipping section.
Now, you have to click on the checkbox override shipping and you will have the option to add the additional shipping cost for that product. You can place a positive or negative value according to your needs. Like if your products base shipping price is less than the global price, you can place a minus value.
Stay informed with House of Assets
top stories, videos, events & news.
