Shipping Adjustments
Shipping Adjustments allow you to change the shipping rates for a particular Brand, Product Group, or Item. Just like setting prices the most specific shipping adjustment will be used.
Contiguous US Only! Adjustments are only calculated for shipping addresses in the contiguous US (Lower 48). Adjustments will not be calculated on shipments to international addresses.
How It Works
Shipping adjustments apply changes to shipping methods.
- A
100% Percentage Discountor$0.00 Fixed Priceadjustment will addFree Shippingto the list of available shipping methods. - A
Fixed Priceadjustment will replace all rates withFixed Rate Shipping. No other rates will be shown or calculated. - A
Percentage Discountshipping adjustment will be applied to all shipping methods unless the resuling rate is $0.00 (see Free Shipping above).
Examples
For the purposes of our examples we'll assume the following rates:
| Method | Amount |
|---|---|
| UPS Ground | $10.00 |
| UPS Next Day Air | $100.00 |
50% Percentage Discount
Defining a 50% Percentage Discount Shipping Adjustment would result in the following rates:
| Method | Amount |
|---|---|
| UPS Ground | $5.00 |
| UPS Next Day Air | $50.00 |
100% Percentage Discount or $0 Fixed Price
Defining a 100% Percentage Discount (or $0.00 Fixed Price) Shipping Adjustment would result in the following rate:
| Method | Amount |
|---|---|
| Free Shipping | $0.00 |
$50 Fixed Price
Defining a $50 Fixed Price Shipping Adjustment would result in the following rate:
| Method | Amount |
|---|---|
| Fixed Rate Shipping | $50.00 |
Carts with More than One Item
When a cart contains more than one item the adjustment(s) are applied in proportion to the item's percentage of the cart. Let's assume we have the same rates as above and our cart has two items:
| Item | Weight | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Adjusted Item | 75lbs | 75% |
| Non-Adjusted Item | 25lbs | 25% |
50% Percentage Discount
| Method | Amount |
|---|---|
| UPS Ground | $6.25 |
| UPS Next Day Air | $31.25 |
The formula is: adjusted rate = original rate - (original rate × weight percentage × discount)
100% Percentage Discount or $0 Fixed Price
Free shipping will only be applied to the item it is defined for and only to Ground shipping methods. All other methods return their full calculated rate.
| Method | Amount |
|---|---|
| Discounted UPS Ground | $2.50 |
| UPS Next Day Air | $50.00 |
$50 Fixed Price
The fixed price amount is added to the lowest rate for all other items. In other words, the system assumes the item will ship for free, calculates all the other rates, then adds the fixed rate to the lowest rate returned.
| Method | Amount |
|---|---|
| Fixed Rate Shipping | $52.50 |
How To
You can mark up or mark down shipping on any brand, group or item. To add an adjustment:
- click the
Product Catalogtab - navigate to the
brand,product group, oritemyou'd like to apply a shipping adjustment to - scroll down and enter the pertinent information in the box shown in the image below:
- Once you've added the appropriate adjustment, click the
Update Shipping Adjustmentbutton to save your changes
