Dynamic Rate Shipping in Umbraco Commerce.
Dynamic rate shipping in Umbraco Commerce allows you to define a series of ranges from which an order will be checked against. These checks find which range a given order falls within which in turn identifies the rates that apply. For each range, a series of rate options can be configured. Examples include a fixed rate per order, a fixed rate per order item, or percentage-based rates. By combining these configurable ranges, and different rating options it allows you to create a more dynamic algorithm than the basic fixed-rate shipping option.
Go to Settings > Stores > {Your Store} > Shipping Methods.
Click Create Shipping Method.
Choose Basic as the shipping provider.
Choose Dynamic as the calculation mode option.
Enter the Shipping Method Name, Alias, SKU, and optional Tax Rate.
Choose the range unit to base the rates upon.
Click Add Range to define each range.
Enter the From and To value of the range.
Enter the rate details from the available rate options leaving blank any option you do not wish to apply.
Select the countries in this shipping method should be allowed in.
Click Save.
Shipping options in Umbraco Commerce.
Umbraco Commerce offers three different shipping method configurations for calculating shipping rates, which are:
The fixed rate shipping option allows you to configure a single fixed rate for the whole of an order.
The dynamic rate shipping option allows you to configure a series of ranges from which an order will be checked against. These checks identify a which range the order falls within. For each range a series of rate options can be configured. Options include fixed rate per order, a fixed rate per order item, percentage based rates amongst others.
The realtime rate shipping option allows you to configure a connection to a shipping operator to fetch realtime shipping rate estimates for an order.
Should you wish to take more control over the shipping calculation process you can swap out the whole shipping calculator implementation. See the Calculator documentation for more details.
Realtime Rate Shipping in Umbraco Commerce.
Realtime rate shipping in Umbraco Commerce allows you to define real-time, up-to-the-minute shipping estimates directly from the shipping operators.
To configure Realtime Rate Shipping, follow these steps:
Go to Settings > Stores > {Your Store} > Shipping Methods.
Click Create Shipping Method.
Choose the shipping provider for the shipping operator you wish to use.
Choose Realtime as the calculation mode option.
Enter the Shipping Method Name, Alias, and SKU.
Select the tax class from the Tax Class dropdown list.
Enter the shipping provider's API credentials required to connect to the shipping operator's API.
Configure any additional charges for this shipping method.
Select the countries this shipping method should be allowed in.
Click Save.
Fixed Rate Shipping in Umbraco Commerce.
Fixed rate shipping in Umbraco Commerce allows you to define a single, fixed shipping rate to apply to an order. This is the simplest of all the shipping calculation options, but is also the least flexible.
Go to Settings > Stores > {Your Store} > Shipping Methods.
Click Create Shipping Method.
Choose Basic as the shipping provider.
Choose Fixed as the calculation mode option.
Enter the Shipping Method Name, Alias, SKU, and optional Tax Rate.
Enter a fixed rate for the shipping method.
Select the countries this shipping method should be allowed in.
Optionally, define a country's specific fixed rate should you wish to have different rates per country.
Click Save.
