Flat Rates

Flat Rate per Order

With a Flat Rate per order, you can charge a single rate to ship all orders to specific locations regardless of how many items are ordered. A Flat Rate can be a whole amount or a percentage of the order subtotal. 

To set up a Flat Rate per order in your store:

  1. From Shipping & Pickup.
  2. Click +Add Shipping.
  3. Select the carrier to ship your goods.
  4. In the Flat Rate section, click Set Up Flat Rate.
  5. Update the Shipping name at checkout if necessary. Customers will see this name at checkout.
  6. Select either an Amount or Percent rate and then enter the shipping cost or percentage. Example for a $5 flat shipping:

7. Optional: Click Add description for customers and enter the details you want to display at checkout. 

8. Optional: Click Limit availability by order subtotal, if you want to offer this shipping method only to customers with orders over a certain sum. Then specify the minimum order subtotal, i.e. the sum of all items in the cart before adding shipping costs and discounts. When this limit is reached, customers will be able to choose this shipping option at checkout.

9. Optional: Click Show approximate delivery date at checkout to display the approximate delivery date next to shipping options at checkout.

Then set:

  • In the Approximate transit time to specify how long it usually takes for the package to be delivered after being handed into the shipping company. You can find the information at the carrier’s website.
  • In the Order preparation time to specify how many days it usually takes for you to prepare an order. That time will be taken into account when calculating the delivery date for customers.
  • In the Days when you pack orders to specify when you pack orders for shipment. Also, set the final time to pack orders in the I pack orders received past this time on the next day box. Your schedule will be taken into account when calculating the delivery date for customers.

Your Editor store will automatically calculate the delivery time and show it at the checkout so your customers can clearly see it.

10. Click Set shipping regionto specify the destination to which this Flat Rate applies. If you leave the default All destinations zone, your Flat Rate shipping option will be available for all customer addresses.

11. Click Save & Finish.

Now the newly configured Flat Rate will be available at checkout for customers ordering goods to the set location:

Flat Rate per Item

Some products in your store may require additional handling or packaging, or they may be much larger than other products that you ship. For these products, you can set up an individual, fixed per-item fee to cover these extra shipping expenses.

  1. Go to the Catalog → Products page.
  2. Choose a product or create a new one.
  3. In product details open the Shipping & Pickup tab.
  4. Make sure that the setting This Product Requires Shipping or Pickup is enabled.
  5. Scroll to the Shipping Rates section and choose how you’d like the per-item fee to be charged
  • To charge a per-item fee for that product on top of your regular shipping cost: select the Use your store’s shipping methods option, click the Add fixed fee per item link, and specify what $ amount should be added to the shipping cost for each product item in the cart:

  • If you want to charge a fixed per-item rate for that product instead of your regular shipping cost: select the Fixed rate per item option and specify what $ amount should be charged for each product item in the cart:

6. Click Save.