Providing accurate and fair shipping rates is a key element to every successful e-commerce store. It can enhance your customer satisfaction and optimize operational efficiency. One of the parts of this strategy that you can’t miss, is shipping cost calculations tailored to each customer’s address using distance rate shipping. Thanks to this, you can provide flexible shipping cost calculations based on the estimated delivery time between your store’s location and the customer’s address, what means more accurate pricing and fewer abandoned carts. Moreover, this may be especially useful if you offer local delivery for your customers.
Our plugin Distance Based Shipping Rates for WooCommerce addresses exactly this need. You can set precise shipping costs using distance and delivery time. It is fully compatible with the Flexible Shipping plugin, and you can use this add-on with both free and PRO versions.
In this article, you’ll discover how our plugin significantly enhances your WooCommerce shipping capabilities. Additionally, we’ll cover the exciting latest update, introducing seamless integration with popular multivendor platforms Dokan and WCFM Marketplace – allowing to set individual shipping rates based on vendor location and significantly simplifying marketplace shipping management.
By combining Distance Based Shipping Rates with Flexible Shipping plugin, you unlock two powerful conditions in your rules table: distance and delivery duration. These parameters enable you to add extra fees for longer distances, provide discounts for shorter trips, or create time-based incentives for quicker deliveries – all while keeping complete control over your costs. You can calculate shipping costs based on the distance between the customer’s location and the store’s origin, allowing for more accurate and fair shipping fees. Configure also progressively increasing shipping rates to add extra charges for each additional distance unit (kilometer/mile) a package needs to travel.
Furthermore, our plugin allows you to leverage the Google Distance Routes API for highly accurate distance measurements and estimated delivery times. The process is straightforward – simply connect to the Google Maps platform using your API key. You can learn more about it in this article on how to set WooCommerce distance-based shipping calculator.
To sum this up, distance based shipping allows you to have:
Now that we know what are the basic features of Distance Based Rates Shipping plugin, we can explore our exciting new feature – multivendor plugin support.
In traditional multivendor setups, shipping costs were often calculated from a central origin point. This could result in inaccuracies in actual shipping expenses, as it is common for vendors to have their own warehouses in different locations. With our latest update, shipping rates are now determined using each vendor’s address as the shipping origin. This approach means that the distance between the store’s location and the customer’s delivery address dictates the shipping cost, leading to a more precise and equitable calculation.
Dokan and WCFM Marketplace are renowned for empowering vendors with individual store management capabilities within a unified marketplace. Our plugin’s integration with these platforms allows vendors to:
This is how it looks in our plugin configuration settings – you can just check the box in the ‘Integrations’ section.
For this feature to work properly, we advise using either Dokan or WCFM Marketplace. It’s also important to add the address for each vendor. For detailed information, you can read Flexible Shipping Distance Based Shipping Rates section in our documentation.
See how you can easily set it up in our latest video tutorial:
Using this feature can bring benefits to all sides: customers, vendors and marketplaces:
This integration is a result of our dedication to delivering adaptable and precise shipping solutions. By synchronizing shipping calculations with the specific location of each vendor, we strive to improve the overall e-commerce experience, building trust and efficiency in every transaction. We encourage you to explore this new feature and witness the enhancements it offers to your multivendor WooCommerce platform firsthand.
Still on the fence about whether distance rate shipping is worth the effort? Implementing this strategy in your store comes with a host of benefits:
Stop losing money to imprecise shipping rates. Install the Distance-Based Shipping Rates plugin today and boost your store’s profitability!
Extend the Flexible Shipping functionalities. Set precise shipping costs using distance and delivery time, providing flexible, shipping cost calculations tailored to each customer’s address.
View Details or Install pluginMake sure to take advantage of our new multivendor integration update to establish precise shipping prices, ensuring customers experience transparent and fair shipping costs.
P.S. Are you running a Shopify store? Check out our dedicated app, Shopify Distance Based Shipping Rates, which provides accurate, real-time shipping rates calculated precisely by distance to your customers’ destinations. Streamline your shipping process, eliminate guesswork, and offer your customers complete transparency on delivery costs.
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