simple shipping implementation
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My eyes are glazing over after trying to get an understanding of how to configure shipping. The website in question is dog treat business with four product lines.
1) A dog food supplement sold in 2 pound or 5 pound bags.
2) Soft Jerky treats in a 4 oz package (six flavors).
3) Bulk dog treats (like simple bone biscuits) sold in bulk by the pound
4) Decorated cookies sold individually that look like “people food” (Birthday cake, Snow Man, Cannoli, s’mores, etc.)What is the simplest way to plan out how to handle these things? My head starts to hurt at the part where I’m thinking about what should be accounted for in zones, what should be part of a class (and why classes even matter), how and why I would use Flat Rate shipping, and how all that relates to what is charged by USPS once I have everything in a box.
Is there a simple way to configure this, or do I need to hire an underwriter to calculate all the odds of any possible combination coming up in a shopping cart?
Help, please! And most of all, THANK YOU!
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Hey there,
Happy to help! ?? This is actually a relatively complex set up, so I understand why it gets complicated.
USPS plugin
First off, you could make this fairly easy if you want to use our USPS plugin to automatically calculate the shipping rates based on product dimensions and weight:
https://www.woocommerce.com/products/usps-shipping-method/Flat rate shipping
You could also use flat rate shipping, though it’ll require some more setup. If you use flat rate shipping without any other options such as shipping classes, you can set a quantity and a fee. That works fine if all you were doing was sending soft treats – it would be a question of
number of treats*shipping cost per treat.However, 5 lbs of dog food costs more to ship than a single package of treats, which is where those shipping classes come in. You can set a class each for products that cost different amounts to ship – I’d assume that’s a separate class for
2 lbs of dog food,5 lbs of dog food,bulk dog treats, etc.Once you set up those classes and assign products to the classes, you can assign different prices to the different classes in the flat rate shipping method:
Link to image: https://cld.wthms.co/090OEiYou’ll need to set the calculation type to
Per Class – Charges shipping for each shipping class.Table rate shipping
You could also choose to caclulate shipping by weight, with occasional exceptions as needed. In that case, our Table Rate Shipping plugin is a good choice:
https://www.woocommerce.com/products/table-rate-shipping/—
I hope that helps you in the right direction! Please do note that if you purchase one of our plugins, we’ll help you set it up as well.
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