As an online seller, you will probably need to mention the shipping zones you cover and can deliver to, it is an essential part of your business and you need to set it up in a way that will benefit you. YouCan offers you flexibility when it comes to this point. Down below you will find all the information and steps you need to know to configure this part.
Overview of shipping zones section
To help you keep track of all the shipping zones you cover, you have a tab that displays them all with the relevant information:
Name of the shipping zone
The type of shipping zone (if the fees are calculated based on price or weight)
Status: whether it is visible to your customers or not
If it is free or paid
Creation date
Ability to edit or delete the shipping zone
Steps to add a shipping zone
Log in to your seller area.
Go to Settings and click on Shipping Zones.
Click on Add a shipping zone.
You will be redirected to a page to fill in.
Enter the name of the shipping zone and the name that is going to be displayed in your store.
Specify the country or countries you cover.
If you want the shipping zone to be free, check the Free Shipping box.
If you want the shipping zone to appear as an option for your customers, check the Activate this shipping box.
From this point, you can customize the shipping zone in two different ways, find below how you can do it.
How can you customize a shipping zone?
You have two main options, you can either customize a shipping zone to be free or you can add a price to it and customize the shipping fees based on price or weight.
Paid shipping
1- Shipping zone based on price: this option means that the shipping fees will be calculated based on the final price of the purchase.
For example, if the shipping fee is 50DH and you want to make the shipping fee 20DH if the customer has 600dh as a final price. Here is how you can do it:
In the Type field, choose Price.
Click on Add Rate.
You have three ways you can customize the shipping fees:
Shipping fees will be the same no matter how the total price of the order is: You need to add the shipping price in Price, activate this shipping, and then click on Save.
Shipping fees will be calculated with minimum: for example, you want the shipping price to be 20dh if the customer purchases less than 299dh: in this case, you will :
- Put 0 in the Min section (it is mandatory to add 0 in this section)
- Put 299 in the Max sect
- Add 20 as the shipping price
- Make sure that the No maximum box is unchecked
Shipping fees will be calculated with maximum: for example, you want the shipping price to be 0dh if the customer purchases more than 300dh: in this case, you will:
- Put 300 in the Min section.
- Put 0 as a shipping price.
- Make sure that the No maximum box is checked.
2- Shipping zone based on weight:
Mandatory step: If you want to customize the shipping fees based on weight, you need to add weight details to the products. Follow these steps :
Go to All Products and click on Edit Product.
Scroll down till you see Variants.
Enable Variants and customize it.
Watch this video to learn how you can customize variants.
Click on save.
After making sure that the weight variants are added, you need to customize the shipping zones based on weight, follow these steps.
Create a shipping zone following the steps we mentioned above.
In the Type field, choose Weight.
Click on Add Rate.
The same choices you have in the Price type apply to the Weight type: you can customize it in three different ways, and follow the same steps for each choice you make.
Free shipping
If you want to offer free shipping to your customers, you just need to create a shipping zone following the steps above and on your right side, check the Free Shipping box and click on save. In this case, you will not have to add a rate or do further steps.
If you want to see the entire process, watch this video.