Whether you're shipping products across town or around the globe, shipping rates vary widely according to where you're sending the package, when it needs to arrive and how it's packaged. Fortunately, when you define your shipping rules in the Weebly platform, not only does the carrier calculate and display the correct shipping rates to your customers, but you save on shipping costs through exclusive deals with Weebly and Shippo. Plus, our integration with Shippo enables you to create and print labels directly from the Orders tab in Weebly, saving you time and money.

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Real time shipping rates enables carriers to automatically determine shipping rates according to the weight of the products in each order and how many boxes are required to ship them. To take advantage of real time shipping rates, you need a shipping address in North America. Next, connect to a carrier and select a default shipping box (by size or maximum weight). You can use a default box set by Weebly or create your own. Then just enter the weights of all your shippable products. To give your business a boost, Weebly and Shippo have negotiated special shipping rates for Business and Performance customers with the United States Post Office and DHL. You can also connect to your own account at DHL, FedEx, or UPS to ship products internationally. When an order is placed, Shippo is already integrated with your online store so you can easily purchase shipping labels for the orders.

Note: Real Time Shipping Rates is available with the Weebly Performance plan.

Your shipping address is your starting point: It's the place you ship your orders from. It can be a different location from your business, such as a warehouse, but you can have only one shipping address. Weebly tools make it simple to select your business address as your shipping address, or to enter a new shipping address for a separate location. You can also edit your shipping address any time. Tax Note: Some states require you to collect tax on your orders if you have a physical location in that state. You can find more information here.

The farther away an order is sent, the more you're likely to charge for shipping. Weebly streamlines the process with tools that let you set shipping rates for a group of locations — such as a state, country or region — called shipping areas. For example, you could set a shipping area for New York, for the Continental U.S., or for all of North America. Weebly supports international shipping, so all you have to do is decide where you want to send your products.

Once you define shipping areas, you're ready to set a shipping rate for each location, which is how much a customer will pay to ship an order to that place. Real time shipping rates enable carriers to automatically determine shipping rates and display the estimated shipping charge to the customer. Another option is to use the manual shipping rate feature to set up free shipping or other deals to incentivize larger purchases. For example, you can choose a flat rate for all orders shipped to a certain area, or set up tiered rates based on an item's price, the number of items in an order or the total weight of all items in an order. You can also have multiple rates for each shipping area.

Note: Shipping rates require the Business plan or above