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Their shipping options completely suck for anything but trivial sales, too, unless it has changed in the last month or two. (Example: most products are free sh
by erichurkman 13y ago
Their shipping options completely suck for anything but trivial sales, too, unless it has changed in the last month or two.
(Example: most products are free shipping but a few large products are not free; there was no control to exempt products from free shipping, nor any control to say products were not eligible for certain shipping methods. Not all merchants can overnight a 50kg box, for example.)
- AYBABTME 13y agoHave you ever thought of using FBA? http://services.amazon.com/content/fulfillment-by-amazon.htm You can opt-in their Prime program and offer free 2-days shipping to your customers. I think there was FBA integration in Shopify but they're dropping it, but an app still let you integrate with FBA.
- erichurkman 13y agoYeah, I tried to push for that. The margin on the products was too small. Due to some nasty wording in franchise agreements, the actual markup was 25% at most, terrible rates for retail. There just wasn't enough room to play with discounts/promotions as well as external servicing. At least not at their low volumes. I've seen other FBA projects go quite well though.
- gravitronic 13y agoHi, you can set up weight-based shipping rates so products over a certain weight have different shipping rates applied. You just need to tell Shopify the weight of those products. http://docs.shopify.com/manual/settings/4-shipping/4-shipping-rates http://docs.shopify.com/manual/settings/4-shipping/4-shippin... If that's not good enough there's apps like Better Shipping that can set up more complex shipping rules - http://apps.shopify.com/better-shipping http://apps.shopify.com/better-shipping