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Introducing Advanced Shipping For WooCommerce – One Stop Solution For Online Store Owners

Introducing Advanced Shipping For WooCommerce – One Stop Solution For Online Store Owners
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Shipping is a major [in fact, one of the main] parts of an online store if you sell physical products.

The tricky part is, that the shipping setup can confuse some store owners because of different scenarios that might appear while shipping a product.

Especially if you sell a variety of products.

66% of consumers favor businesses offering diverse shipping options, including free shipping and different discounts on shipping options.

To solve different issues, we have just introduced a new tool in WooCommerce Sellkit – Advanced Shipping For WooCommerce.

This will help you with any issues you might face while setting up shipping costs.

Let’s have a look at how it will help you out.

Why Use Advanced Shipping For WooCommerce?

You might have a question,

If WooCommerce offers shipping options, “Why would I need a new tool?”

why need a new tool for shipping?

I’ve gone through some public forums and found a few issues that many Real WooCommerce store owners face.

Many of them are facing,

  • Getting Cost calculation errors for different types of products.
  • Facing issues with Free Shipping – Unable to give free shipping with a min-max value.
  • Not being able to set up proper weight-based shipping. [Facing issues with mixed carts]
  • Getting wrong shipping costs for overseas shipping.
  • Not being able to set up different shipping options for multiple zones.

And many other issues that are pretty annoying!

But we have come up with the right solution for you that will help you with all these issues.

With Advanced Shipping For WooCommerce, you will get the option to do all that and more!

And we are offering a Flat 20% Discount with the launch!

Let’s have a look at what features this tool offers.

Advanced Shipping For WooCommerce Overview

Advanced Shipping for WooCommerce simplifies your shipping process and gives you flexible shipping options for different events.

Here are the key features,

Advanced Shipping For WooCommerce Features

With these advanced options, you will be able to make the entire shipping process of your store smoother and more efficient.

In the following sections, I will show you an example and a scenario of how you may use Advanced Shipping For WooCommerce on your store.

Setting Up Free Shipping

Free shipping is a great option that WooCommerce provides. However, it’s not completed. Many users face issues based on when they want to offer free shipping.

Many store owners might not want to offer free shipping for cheap products, because that might affect the business. And the owner has to bear the shipping cost.

Here’s a real-life example of that,

Free Shipping issue that WooCommerce store owners face
Source: Reddit

Now, Advanced Shipping For WooCommerce gives you the right solution for that,

You can configure a minimum or maximum value of your customer’s order with which they will be able to set up free shipping only for high-ticket clients.

Here’s how the option looks,

Free Shipping settings in Advanced Shipping For WooCommerce

Cost Calculation Rules

You can implement various rules for shipping cost calculations.

You may easily match your customer expectations and adjust shipping fees based on the highest to lowest pricing.

And also, you can set up if you want to add shipping costs for both physical and virtual products or just for physical products.

shipping Cost Calculation for physical and virtual products

Price-Based Shipping

Price-based shipping will come in handy to you when you have hundreds of products that are priced from very low to high.

For low-priced products, you can set a fixed shipping fee, while for high-priced items, you can offer a reduced shipping rate.

Here’s an example of that,

Price based Shipping in Advanced Shipping For WooCommerce

Shipping Costs for Specific Products & Categories

With this feature, WooCommerce store owners can set custom shipping rates for specific products, categories, or tags.

Time Based Shipping

It means you can offer customized shipping prices for different items in your store, making sure your customers get accurate shipping costs based on what they’re buying.

This is Perfect for stores with a wide range of products or unique shipping needs. This makes it easier to manage shipping rules and keep your customers happy with fair pricing.

Product Based Shipping Costs

Weight-Based Shipping

We found another issue in one of the Reddit forums, where they weren’t able to set up weight-based shipping costs using WooCommerce.

Weight based shipping issues
Source: Reddit

So, we came up with a solution that’s beginner-friendly and easy to use for setting up weight-based shipping costs.

With Advanced Shipping For WooCommerce, you’ll be able to set up both Weight-based shipping and size-based shipping.

Weight Based Shippping - WooCommerce settings

This is an example of weight-based shipping.

However, for size-based shipping, here’s how you can set it up.

Size Based Shipping

Scenario: You have a furniture store in which you want to set up different shipping costs for smaller items like home appliances and different for larger items such as dining table sets and so.

For cases like this, size-based shipping costs can help out the store owners. In this, you’ll be able to set up costs with the height, length, and width of a product.

Quantity-Based Shipping

This is another scenario, where you’ll be able to handle shipping costs like a pro.

For smaller quantities, you may charge low shipping costs, and for higher charges, you will be able to charge a higher shipping cost.

And, you can even set up costs for cart item quantities or the number of different products that your customers choose.

Quantity Based Shipping For WooCommerce stores

Time-Based Shipping

You may adjust WooCommerce shipping costs based on the chosen day of the week or specific delivery time on the chosen day.

With this, you have the option to offer free shipping or very low shipping costs to your customers for specific dates or times.

This will allow you to create attractive flash deal offers on particular dates and times.

Time Based Shopping

Shipping Costs Based On User Roles

Offer WooCommerce shipping rates based on user roles.

This lets you provide personalized pricing and improve customer satisfaction to the fullest.

No matter what user roles you have on your site, you can customize costs for each of them individually.

User Role Based Shipping Cost in WooCommerce

Multiple Shipping Methods For Shipping Overseas

You may set up multiple shipping methods using Advanced Shipping for multiple geographical locations.

This will specifically be very handy if you’re an international seller and selling products all over the world.

multiple shipping zones

Conclusion

So if you’re tired of using complicated shipping options for your WooCommerce store, try out Advanced Shipping For WooCommerce.

This will make your life easier and help you out with setting up different scenarios for your shipping options.

Nabila is a Product Marketing Manager at RexTheme. She provides technical guidance in her writing and uses visual storytelling to present information, especially in the area of Virtual Reality & eCommerce.

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