New Shipper Overview
Shippers are used in conjunction with ship methods if you want to allow buyer users the ability to select a shipper while they are ordering. Shippers can be set to not have any rates, to have rates that are manually created, or to use third party rates (Actual Rates).
Shippers are used in conjunction with ship methods if you want to allow buyer users the ability to select a shipper while they are ordering. Shippers can be set to not have any rates, to have rates that are manually created, or to use third party rates (Actual Rates).
Creating a new shipper will include various configuration settings and possibly setting price breaks if you are creating your own rates.
Configuration Settings:
1) Shipper Name: The name of the shipper will appear to the buyer user in the shipper drop-down on the Shipping page of the Buyer interface when he is submitting an order.2) Rates: There are three different options for rates:
- None: The shipper will appear in the shipper drop-down, but when selected by the buyer user there will be no shipping charge.
- Use my rates: If this option is selected, you will create your own rates which can be based on Quantity, the weight of the product or the value of the product.Once the shipper is created and this option is chosen, a new section will appear at the bottom of the page for you to create your own price breaks.
- Use third party rates: Third party rates are calculated using Ship To and Ship From addresses as well as the product weight. If all products in the cart are tied to a single supplier, then the Ship From address is that Supplier's address. If there are multiple suppliers, then the Admin address is used as the Ship From address.
3) Based on: This drop-down can only be used if the “Use my rates” rate option was chosen.
- Quantity: If this option is selected, then the shipping amount will be based on the quantity of the line item.
- Value: If this option is selected, then the shipping amount will be based on the line item total (unit price multiplied by quantity).
- Weight: If this option is selected, then the shipping amount will be based on the total weight of the line item, which is a configuration setting of a product.
4) Lead Time (days): This value will be used in calculating the shipper when the ship method is set to let the system select the cheapest shipper. Users will not be able to select a shipper whose lead time is greater than the variance between current date and date needed. This is not supported when using Actual Rates Shippers.
5) Pass shipper name with order: This setting will show or hide the shipper on orders if enabled or disabled (respectively).
6) Price Schedule section: If “Use my rates” is selected as the rate type, then this section will appear. This section allows the creation of price breaks that will be used to calculate the shipping amount of an order.
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