If you want to allow vendors to manage shipping costs, it is essential to enable the option “Enable shipping module” you can find in the “Add-Ons” section of the plugin settings dashboard.
How and where can vendors edit the shipping settings?
The shippings must be configured in Vendor Profile -> Shipping.
In this section, they must configure the following options:
- Default Shipping Price: amount added by default when the cart includes at least one product
- Per Product Additional Price: amount added when the cart includes an additional product different from the one previously added
- Per Qty Product Additional Price: additional amount for each product of the same type added to cart
- Processing time: average time spent to process and ship the orders. It’s showed on product detail page (with shipping and refund policy)
- Shipping and Refund Policy: information showed to user inside the product detail page
Note: The administrator can edit the label of “Shipping info” tab through the option “Shipping Info Tab” available in the tab “Front page” of the plugin settings dashboard. - Shipping from: country where vendor’s shop is located
The last step is the configuration of shipping zones and related methods.
HOW-TO-USE SAMPLE
To resolve any possible doubt about shipping costs applied to cart, we provide an example.
In this case, the shipping cost configuration is as follows:
- Shipping method (flat rate): €100
- Default shipping price: €10
- Per product additional price: €5
- Per qty product additional price: €1
The cart total is calculated as follows:
€100 (default amount of the shipping method “Flat rate” for the product vendor )
+
€10 (a one-time amount added if at least one product is in the cart)
+
€5 (amount due for the second product added to cart. If adding 3 products, the amount would be €10)
+
€4 (€1 for each additional copy of the product added to cart. In the sample, 4 copies)
Total: €119