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Hi,
I was wondering how do companies make e-commerce’s with deliveries and all included. I was doing an e-commerce and everything was fine until I got to the deliveries part. It was over 900 products and as I understand for a delivery company weight and measurements are needed. So my question here is: do all businesses with deliveries (with a delivery company like FedEx for example) put the weight and measurements so the shipping rate gets calculated? How do they do that when there are too many products?
The project I worked on is finished but with no deliveries and it kills me cuz I worked so hard but I know it’s not right (although the client basically told me it was fine if it was just pick up but still 😭😭)
Thank you!
Depends on which plugin I guess. But I know for woocommerce you can choose flat rate shipping. You’ll need to calculate tho how much that should be to reflect the actual cost of shipping.
You will need a carrier – you can use the actual post office.
Generally through a 3PL company or some kind of drop shipping.
They handle all the logistics and shipping/packaging costs. You just provide product details so they can price accordingly
I didn’t understand any of what you said.
… you built a 900-product e-commerce store without figuring out how things are going to be shipped? Am I reading that right?
Usually the weight and dimensions are entered with the product data, which can then be used to automatically calculate shipping price via a plugin specific to the shipping company.
If you have too many products you can also do a combination of flat-rate shipping depending on the region for most of the products, then enter the weight and dimensions for products that are considered bulky or heavy.
I don’t know is WordPress supports it but I ran a Shopify store where I worked and we used ShipStation
900 products isn’t a lot. Someone could update the weights and dimensions in a work day. If you do not want to, then hire an assistant for the task. We’ve used native woo commerce, Canada post, ship station plugins to dynamically updates shipping rates. They then print a label that’s verified paid and either dropped at the mail box or courier pick up.
For delivery personal (drivers), pay them per delivery and the delivery fee to the total.