Percentage based shipping is another great option for your IES stores. This option allows you to have the shipping cost automatically calculated as a percent of the order total.
There is a difference between this shipping option and the shipping based on the order total. With this option, you define a flexible price that is automatically calculated by the system.
EXAMPLE - You configured your shipping cost as 10% of the order total.
Your customer order amount is $100
The cost of shipping will automatically be calculated as 10% of the order total, so
Shipping cost = $10.
If your customer order amount increases to 122$, shipping will be automatically recalculated to 12,2$
With shipping based on the order total, you define the ranges where the order total falls into so certain fixed shipping costs apply to that order.
EXAMPLE - You configured your shipping cost as 10$ for all orders from 100$ to 1000$ total.
Your customer order amount is $100
Shipping cost = $10.
If your customer order amount increases to 122$, shipping will stay the same 10$ that you defined.
Read more about shipping based on the order total here.
Check out the following steps to set up this shipping option in your store.
STEP #1 - In IES click the “Shipping” tab in the main menu on the left to open the “My Shipping Classes” page.
From here click “Add Shipping Class” button to open “Add Shipping Class” window.
STEP #2 - Next, in the “Name” field enter a memorable name for the shipping class you are creating, for example, “Percentage based”.
Click “Save and start adding Shipping Zones” to open the "New Zone Configuration" page. If you press “Save” button the new Shipping Class will be saved without any shipping zones defined.
Click the "Add Zone" button on the right to open the "Add Zone Wizard".
STEP #3 - In the “New Zone Wizard” under the “General” tab enter a name to identify the shipping zone you are creating. To proceed to the “Areas” tab click “Next” or the tab name itself.
Example: Only USA shipping
STEP #4 - Under the “Areas” tab click the drop-down menu “Select Country” to select the country you would like the shipping option to apply to.
For some countries like the United States, you can specify shipping for each state separately
or you can select “All States” if you would like for the option to apply to all states.
STEP #5 - Under the “Shipping” tab in the “Shipping Cost Type” field, select "% of total costs of the order". Now, in the “Shipping Costs” field enter the percent of order total that you would like to charge.
Click “Save Zone” to add this zone under the shipping class you are working on.
CONGRATULATIONS!
You can now apply your configured percentage based shipping option to any of the products in your stores. To do that choose the created “Shipping Class” and “Shipping Zone” on the right of your product page.
NOTE- Now after you created this shipping class you can add multiple zones under the same class. To do so use "Clone Zone" option.
Once you do that you will be able to select this class and apply any of the zones configured under that class to any products in your stores.
You will only be able to apply multiple shipping zones if they were configured under the same shipping class. Take a look at the following guide for steps on cloning zones.
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