WooCommerce shipping

[Jodi Stammer]

I have a potential client with a physical store that sells crafty items and is interested in selling online.

 

When you have many, many items of all different shapes and sizes (little do-dads to large furniture and everything in between!), how do you figure out shipping? She says she doesn't have time to weigh each one.

 

I've done a few WooCommerce sites, but only one with physical goods and they do delivery & installation so it’s completely different than typical shipping.

 

Any advice or links to learn more would be appreciated!

 

Many thanks,

 

Jodi Stammer
Graphic & Web Designer
Uncorked Design LLC

jodi.s...@comcast.net
763-954-0820
 

 

[Barbara Schendel-Kent]

If she cannot weigh each one, then I would go by size/dimension and have her plan to use USPS flat rate shipping boxes. (She will need to measure each thing though.) 

https://woocommerce.com/document/flat-rate-box-shipping/

Otherwise, she could just guess and price them inclusive of shipping, and know that there is a chance that when she actually goes to the post office, she could end up eating a few bucks here or there. I had a guy who did that for years and it more or less all came out to be a wash (too high on some, too low on others)

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[Donna Homan]

Doing an optimal job of figuring out shipping cost is huge especially if margins are small. Other ways to consider for your client’s store are calculating shipping costs by cart totals and by product category/shipping classes (with each additional item per product category/shipping class being so much).    

For the cart totals method, you set ranges of cart totals and then input the shipping cost (e.g..  if cart total is from $0.01 to $10.0, then shipping cost is $6; if cart total is from $10.01 to 20.00 then shipping is $8).  A variety of plugins can do this method.  

For the product category/shipping classes method, you can say so much for the first item of a category/shipping class and then each additional item is so much more (e.g. first item from the shoe category is $8 shipping, each additional item from the shoe category is $4 shipping).  Right now I am aware of  2 plug-ins that can do this scenario:  Flexible Shipping PRO plugin WooCommerceAdvanced Shipping plugin (in combination with the WAS Advanced Pricing extension).  

In the end when working with a store with an extreme variety of sizes and weights, I agree with Barbara that on some cart combinations, the clients may need to take a small loss here and there on covering shipping.   A big cause of cart abandonment is shipping costs so figuring out the best rules is worth the effort.

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[Jodi Stammer]

Thank you, Barbara and Donna. This is very helpful!

 

Jodi

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