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EcommPro offers two methods to calculate shipping.

1. Flat Rate Shipping

2. UPS Real-time Shipping Rate Calculations

   • You must have or open an account with UPS (United Parcel Service)

   • Go to http://www.ups.com choose your country then click the Register button near the top right of the page.

   • If you intend to use UPS shipping please go and create the account before going any further.

   • You will need the following from UPS:

     • An XML Access License Number

     • A User Id

     • A Password

Setup your Shipping Method

1. Login to your Shopping Cart Control Panel http://www.yourdomain.com/scart/admin/login.asp

2. Click the Shipping button.

3. Choose UPS or Flat Rate Shipping.

UPS Information

• If you choose UPS enter the information under UPS Information.

• UPS Account Number is optional all other fields are required.

• Contact UPS to setup your account today. It only takes a few minutes.

• Each of your items must have an accurate Weight.

  • See the Weight form field on the add or edit items pages. See the Note below in red.

  • Weights should be set as you add each item to the database.

  • Weight should be in USA Pounds.

  • Weights are in hundredths of a pound and can range from 0.01 lbs to 150 lbs.

    • e.g. 5.75 = 5 and three quarter pounds.

*Note - When adding or editing and item following fields are required to have numbers only and MUST contain a number:

Handling Price - Shipping Price - Weight

If you don't want to enter anything in that field you can use a zero 0.

e.g. 2. If you're using Flat Rate shipping you must still enter a number in the Weight field. Use a 0.

Flat Rate Shipping

• If you choose Flat Rate Shipping as your method then Shipping and Handling are set at the item level.

• On either the add products or edit products pages you can set a shipping and handling price for each item.

Setting your Handling and Shipping Prices:

In the past our customer's had issues with Ecommpro's flat rate shipping. There was no handling fee only a shipping fee. That was fine when a customer wanted just one or two items. However, everyone ran into trouble if someone ordered many items. The shipping became way too high. e.g. You set shipping on an item lets say a T-Shirt at $8.00. Okay, that's a reasonable price for shipping across the USA for a T-Shirt. But suppose you want 5 T-Shirts then shipping would come to 5X$8.00=$40.00.

That's not okay.

The actual cost would be only about $12.00 to $15.00. And it gets worse with the more T-Shirts you'd order.

You can see the issue.

Okay so how did we fix it? Simple. We added Handling. How does it work? Like this:

Using the T-Shirt scenario above you'd set a Handling price of say $7.00 and a Shipping Price of maybe $1.00.

The math works like this: For each item the Handling Price is applied only once but the Shipping is multiplied by the Quantity.

So with the T-Shirt scenario if you purchased only one T-Shirt the Total Shipping would be $7.00 + $1.00 = $8.00.

If you purchase 5 T-Shirts the Total Shipping would be 5 X $1.00 = $5.00(Shipping) Plus $7.00(Handling) 5+7= $12.00.

That's five t-shirts multiplied times one dollar plus seven dollars handling.

If that doesn't work for you you can set the shipping at $1.50 or so.

Using this method you can establish accurate shipping prices.

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