SHIPPING SETTING GUIDE

You have two ways of  setting up your shipping; Simple and Table Rated (which you will need if the size/weight of your items will determine your shipping cost).

Royal Bees, once your shipping is set up, you can check that it is working on your live listing.

Bumble Bees, when admin approves your first listing they will check that your shipping settings are working and let you know if they don’t.

For both options, please start by going to settings>shipping from your vendor dashboard.

SIMPLE SHIPPING

  • click the zone you want to edit – those you don’t edit, will not be available to the customers from those zones.
1 pick zone
  • that opens this screen – if you leave the ‘select states’ empty, it means it will apply to the whole of nz
3. opens this screen
  • click ‘add shipping method’ and that opens this
4. cllick add shipping method

For this store I am setting up ‘flat rate shipping’ but I want a different rate for Rural than I want for Residential. You could set this up for North Island and South Island for example too… up to you.

So I have picked to add ‘flat rate shipping’ twice. You can see that in the below screenshot.

Hover under the name of the shipping method and click ‘edit’

see the shipping methods you have added
you can edit your shipping option when you go in to edit it – set the name (under title, this can say ‘north island rural’, ‘rural nz wide’, ‘flat rate nz wide’ – it can literally say what you want and set the price for that shipping option
 
5. edit shipping method name and cost

Hit ‘Save Settings’ and edit your other shipping methods as well / add other shipping methods

6 safe settings

You can now set up shipping methods for other zones if you want to.

If you don’t it just means customers from those zones will not be able to shop from you.

PLEASE NOTE:

  • We do NOT advise to set up for all the different postcodes and ‘states’ within a zone, it has proven tricky for this to be completely accurate and up-to-date all the time worldwide.
  • When using LOCAL PICK UP, please make sure you edit the name of the shipping method, so it includes the general location for pick up, eg; ‘Pick up Hamilton’ , Henderson Auckland Pick Up’ or ‘Nelson Central Pick Up, just to name a few examples.

TABLE RATED SHIPPING

This is ideal when you have different sizes of parcels and it really depends on what the customer orders what the shipping cost is…
One item might have a $5 shipping cost and another item costs $25 to send.
 
You might need to define the shipping cost based on weight, size or item count, etc.
You CAN with table rated shipping also set up rural/residential but as with our simple shipping; the customer chooses and needs to choose correctly… the system does not ‘see’ whether the customer is rural or not UNLESS you put different things in for different postcode zones.
 
below step by step as well as some example screenshots and meaning of terminology used.
 
Please use our simple shipping set up if all you need is rural/residential/flat rate/free shipping/local pick up etc.

Pick the zone you want to set up table rated shipping for and click ‘edit’

1 pick zone

Click to add a shipping method and choose ‘Table Rated’

4. cllick add shipping method
4_click edit table rate

you’ll see lots of terms on the screen and here is what they mean

5_meaning of each item on edit table rate
6_meaning of each item on edit table rate
click ‘add shipping method’
edit the table depending on what you want it to do – don’t forget; when you use weight based for example, don’t forget to edit your listings and give your item a weight!!
7_click add shipping rate
8_pick a shipping class

What the words on the table mean:

9_meaning of table on table rated shipping
10_meaning of table on table rated shipping

what it looks like when you use ‘per order based’:

11 per order based

per order based as set up above when checked out by customer

12 per order at cart

when ‘per item based’ is used:

13_per item

what happens when your item is outside of the shipping settings:

14_per item 2

example of ‘per line based’ shipping:

15_per line

example of ‘per shipping class based’ shipping

16_per shipping class

ONE LAST THING you can EDIT THE NAME of your table rated shipping and this is how you can set it up for both Rural as well as Residential for example… you can give it a name the customer will recognise.

edit method title