Shipping:
ShopSite Manager allows many different options for charging your customers for shipping. No matter what your merchandising strategy, you should be able to find a shipping method that meets your needs.
Shipping By Weight - If you choose this method, a weight field will be added to your "edit product" pages and you can specify a weight for each item. You can then specify how much The "lbs" designation is arbitrary. If your product is measured in grams, kilograms, or ounces, just make sure that the same unit of measure is used in bith the shipping table and for the individual products. Your customers will not see the weight information.
Shipping By Dollar - this is the simple table that many mail order catalogs use. The price of shipping corresponds to the dollar amount of the products ordered. If you would like orders over a certain level to be free to stimulate large purchases, you may do so by specifying $0.00 as the amount.
Flat Shipping - Every order us charged the same rate not matter how many items are in the order.
Flat Base Each Shipping - Every order is charged a flat, base rate plus an additional charge for each product in the order. Larger orders are charged higher shipping. This is an especially good system if all your products are approximately the same weight and size.
Flat Each Shipping - Each item is charged a flat shipping rate.
Base Shipping - If you choose this feature, a shipping charge field will appear for each product. The customer will be charged the total of all the individual shipping charges or the minimum shipping charge, whichever is greater. You specify the minimum charge there in the shipping handler. In this case, the base should be the minimum it would cost to ship any item, $3.00 for example, and small item would be given a charge of $.50 while larger items might have a charge of $4.00. A small item ordered alone would be $3.00 to ship. A larger item would be $4.00. The two ordered together would be $4.50.
Base Plus Shipping - If you choose this feature, a shipping charge field will appear for each product. The customer will be charged the total of all the individual shipping charges plus the base shipping charge. You specify the base charge there in the shipping handler. In this case, the base should be the minimum it would cost to ship any item, $3.00 for example, and small item would be given a charge of $.50 while large items might have a charge of $4.00. A small item ordered alone would be $3.50 to ship. A large item would be $7.00.
Select the method of your choice in the pull down menu, then hit the "change" button. You will be given the option of setting shipping charges for regular, second day, and next day shipping. If you do not want to support one or more of these shipping types, uncheck the box next to it.
