Shipping table is something you need in your store? In this article, I’ll show you how to configure it using a free plugin. You’ll be able to create your own shipping rules based on weight and total order cost. There are more options, too. I’ll show them to you.
It is a format a shop manager uses to write down the shipping rules such as:
Every store has its own shipping rules. They depend on the industry, shop size or carrier companies a store works with.
Let’s use the previous example.
It’s definitely easier to understand how your store calculates the shipping cost.
Also, you can provide rules in this form for the shipping plugin. The one that will calculate shipping cost automatically.
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Again, we’ll use the previous example.
Once you add a new shipping method, configure rules like this:
These rules are strange in fact. I hardly can imagine a store that uses such rules in their shipping table.
Also, we need to use a shipping class on this shipping table. Flexible Shipping supports shipping classes but only in the PRO version.
So, let’s use some other example. It’s kind of a basic example but it’s still powerful. Also, you don’t need a PRO version here.
Shipping rules go like this:
How can we write these rules down?
As you see, a shipping table is a very useful tool to write down shipping rules. This way, you can easily automate shipping cost calculation.
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