How to Set Up Shipping on Shopify 2021

one of the most crucial parts of actually fulfilling an order online is the shipping process you want to make sure that you're charging enough for shipping for your customer but you're not actually going to be losing money as well in covering shipping cost so in this video i'm going to show you exactly how to set up your shipping settings in the back end of your shopify store so i'd say that shipping is actually probably one of the most asked questions that i get every single week it can be confusing and how to set it up if you have different size products or rates or should you do free shipping so i wanted to make a complete shipping guide for 2021 of how to set up shipping for your shopify store so to get to the shipping settings in your shopify back-end you're going to go to settings and then shipping there so now that we're in the shipping and delivery section we can see that we have a couple different delivery methods here and we're also getting a warning because we don't have any shipping rates set up here so customers aren't able to see shipping on our checkouts we're going to add in some shipping rates here but i also wanted to showcase that there are a couple other delivery methods now that shopify has added in so you can see here that there's also a local delivery and a local pickup we're not going to be going over those in this video however you can go in and just click on this manage if you want to add delivery options or pick up options and you can click that select your location once you've got that added in and show that yes this offers local delivery and then choose from here either your settings of setting up based on zip code or a delivery radius and then add in the delivery price and any additional information if we also go back and we choose local pickup you can see here we hit manage you can select on this and you can also customize the information of the pickup instructions as well as choose how quickly the pickup is ready to be picked up at that location so we're not going to go in and customize any of that we're going to focus on the shipping settings but i did want to highlight that those are options that are available so in the shipping area here you can see we have a general shipping rates which all products are going into automatically and all new products that you add would also go into this shipping rate you can also go in and create a new profile so let's first start out by managing the rates in our general shippings area and then i'll also show you what the benefit of a new profile is as well so let's click on manage rates and you can see we have two products that are just the two test products in our store that are already added into this profile and it says that any new products we add in are automatically going to be added to this profile as well you can also see here our shipping from this is our warehouse location so this is automatically being pulled in and if you wanted to you could click on manage and change the location there now we have options of where we're actually shipping things to as well as other zones that are not covered so first let's start out by adding some rates to our united states shipping zone which is actually where we're located so we can click on add rate and then we have a couple options so you can first just create your own rate or you can use carrier calculated rates so if we choose to set up our own rates we have our first option here is our shipping speed so you can choose how you want to have this shown to your customers of the general shipping speed of how many business days or you can choose to have no shipping time shown so i'm going to just choose standard here and then you have the price which currently right now is free so let's go in and for shipping rates we can just say that we can create this to be whatever it is that we want it to be so let's say ten dollars is the price of shipping so this would be a flat rate that you decide based on what you feel is comfortable for your products you would need to do some research to feel comfortable knowing exactly what that number could be and you can always come back in and change it if you find that you are charging too much or too little for shipping you can also click on add conditions and now we can set a condition for this price so we can do it based on either the item weight so you could make heavier products actually cost more to ship or you can do it based on the order price so this is a really cool way to do free shipping on your store so we can do it based on order price and say the minimum order price is zero and the maximum order price is 74.99 so we could say anything under 75 dollars is ten dollars to ship and we'll just hit done so you can see here again standard shipping zero to seventy four ninety nine three to four business days and the price is ten dollars so now if we wanted to add in free shipping we would just click add rate again keep this at our own rates i'm going to keep that at standard we won't add in a price here so it's set as free and do conditions order price and now we're going to set the minimum price of 75 and i'm not going to put in a max price so that means anything from 75 and above is going to be free for them for shipping and so that's a great way to add in free shipping if you've chosen to do that on your site you do want to make sure though that with free shipping that you're still able to cover your cost and the number makes sense for you so that you don't end up losing money now let's go in and do a rate based on a calculated carrier provider so we'll hit add rate and now we're going to use carrier or app to calculate rates from here you have a couple different options from this drop down and you have dhl ups or usps so you can get a discounted rate from shopify because of using them so let's just use usps and you can choose here the services that you want to provide so we could say we just want to do priority mail again these will cost different based on the company that you go with so you want to make sure whenever you're selecting these that you have researched your provider like usps and you know if your product can actually be classified to be sent through things like media mail or if it's not eligible for that as well as how much the general rate is for that it's always great to send a couple test packages to see exactly how that works out so for this example i'm just going to keep priority mail the only one checked and you can also choose if you want to automatically show new shipping services to customers when they become available so that would be clicking this option here however i typically leave this off and i just manage this myself so that way i'm not being having new services added in without me really knowing it you can also then add in a handling fee so this could be to adjust the rate that is calculated for you so usps once you enable this on your site is going to calculate based off of your location and where the customer actually is so instead of getting that flat rate fee of 10 like we set up the customer would see something like 7.37 based on wherever their location is so it is a lot more of a specific number however you can choose to add a certain percentage additional or a flat rate amount additional if you see on average it's costing you just a little bit more or also to cover your additional cost for packing materials like the priority mail box to send it in or any tissue paper things like that so you would just come in and you would say that you wanted to add let's say two dollars flat amount to that so it's going to add whatever this priority mail amount is to actually ship it to them plus two dollars to that to give a final shipping total and we'll just hit done and now you can see here we have our rates here and we have our carrier and app rates listed here and you can also see here the handling fee that we've got added in now this is just for the united states we could go in and add other rates as well so to do this we're going to hit this create shipping zone and you have a lot of different options you'll see all these different countries here you can search for the countries and the regions you can also just choose rest of world so we could say anything for the rest of the world and we can name this as well and hit done and we're going to go through the same process of adding in the rate so this is your international shipping cost this is where it can get a lot more expensive so you want to make sure that you're being really specific about where you send it to and actually whenever you're first getting started you may not want to offer international shipping or you may just want to offer it to surrounding countries to you so you can just hit add rate and go through the same process as before so we could set up our own rate then choosing from the drop down of the shipping speed so we could say standard international choose our price add any conditions that we want as well and so let's just say for international shipping we have a flat fee of 20 again you'll definitely want to test this out international shipping is where you can have a lot of different costs added in so you want to make sure that you are testing that out first if you don't want to do international shipping for the entire world you can limit it by country so if we just come in here and delete this i can then create a shipping zone by just clicking on this here for just countries around us so we could just come in and say canada if you wanted to you can actually click on this arrow here as well and choose which province you wanted to do in canada so you could limit it there however we'll keep all of that and i'm just going to name this and hit done and now i can add in the rates just for canada so that way you are kind of testing out international shipping without having to do all of the shipping for international where you're shipping completely across the world and it may cost you a lot of money so again you can go through and click add rates to add that in there but let's just go ahead and hit save now if we go back up here to the top we can see that we have our two products for our store added into this profile but you can actually go in and create multiple profiles so if we click this back arrow here we can see back in this main shipping and delivery section we have rates for the us we still have our one rate for candidate that we would need to set up but that this is our general shipping rates for all products we can now go to this custom shipping rates area and see this create new profile and let's click on that so you can see here of you can create a profile of specific products that you want to include and you go through the same process so their example here is fragile products you could name this as it says here the customer won't see it or you could do you know separate out your products by heavier products or more fragile products that have very specific ways that they have to be shipped or even things like if you had some products that were posters and were being shipped in tubes versus other products that were being shipped in bubble mailers this is a great way to separate out those products just so you can add in different shipping profiles once you have got that separated out you just need to add in your product so you click on the add products there you can see all of our products are automatically added into our general shipping area but if you didn't have a product added in from there you could just click in here and add them in to this shipping zone and then you'll go through the exact same process that we did before of setting up your shipping zones you would just hit the create shipping zone and add in let's say united states and you could click in from here and go throughout the process just like we did before in the previous example this is a great way though to add and separate out your products a little bit more especially if you have a wide variety of products that you are sending out and they're just really different based on their sizing or their weights so i hope you found this video helpful and that i've cleared up some of your questions about shipping if you have any other questions or issues that you're running into make sure to comment below and let us know also we've got some great tips and strategies for how to grow your shopify store for 2021 so make sure to check out those gross strategy videos over here and if you haven't yet subscribed make sure to subscribe to our channel we post new videos every week all about shopify and how to grow your online store

Channel: Curious Themes - Shopify Experts

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Length: 13min 45sec (825 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 04 2021