AbleCommerce Product Shipping Features

Product Shipping Features

• Product weight, and dimensions (L x W x H) can be used to calculate shipping costs.
• Shippable status: ‘Yes,’ ‘No,’ and ‘Separately.’ Normally, a product would be set the shippable 'Yes'. If a product is un-shippable by the normal carriers or if it's a digital good, then 'No'. If you select 'Separately' then it will be sent to the real time shipping carrier as a separate shipment with its dimensions for a more accurate rate calculation.
• Warehouses allow you to specify where a package is going to be shipped from so that shipping costs can be calculated accurately.
• Support for FedEx, UPS, USPS, DHL, and Canada Post real time shipping methods.
• Select only the shipping methods you want to make available to the customer at checkout. e.g. USPS book rate is not available.
• Drag, and drop to sort the shipping methods in any order you prefer.
• Calculate shipping as a percentage of the order total.
• Calculate shipping based on weight. e.g. 1 to 5 lbs is $1.00 a lb, 6 to 10 is $.75 a lb, etc.
• Calculate shipping based on number of products purchased. e.g. 1 to 5 products purchased is $7.00, 6 or more gets free shipping.
• A handling fee may be included either a fixed amount or a percentage of the shipping cost total. e.g. $5.00 handling fee per order or 10% of the shipping cost total.
• The handling fee may be included in the shipping cost or displayed separately from shipping cost.
• You can specify which warehouse this shipping method is valid for. e.g. If you have a drop ship vendor in another location you can setup the shipping correctly based on the rules they use.
• Drop shipping vendor support: When a product is paid in full, the system will automatically email its associated packing list to your vendor for shipment. Warehouses and vendors are a terrific combination allowing the proper shipping rate to be calculated, regardless of shipping origin.
• You can configure the shipping zone for which each shipping method is valid for. Zones are countries, states or provinces, and zip code ranges. e.g. Alaska and Hawaii can be configured to not allow ground shipping rates.
• Shipping methods can be assigned to user groups. e.g. The preferred customer group gets different rates than unassigned users.
• You can setup free shipping on select shipping methods for specified customer groups.
• Multiple ship to addresses is supported. This is a great feature during the holiday season, especially when used with our gift wrapping module. Send package A to my Mom, send package B to my aunt , and package C to my brother. Automatically breaks the shipment into multiple shipments, and allows customer to select a shipping method for each shipment.
• You can specify a minimum purchase amount for a shipping method to be displayed.