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Shipping Methods



An important part of your webstore administration is managing the delivery of products to your customers.

To set up shipping methods in Sana Admin click: Setup > Ordering & checkout > Shipping methods.

Before you start to set up shipping methods think about what can have an influence on the delivery of your products, destinations you will deliver to.

Sana Commerce supports different strategies for configuring shipping methods, and you can use any or all of them:

  • Fixed shipping costs
    Set up fixed shipping costs based on the country of delivery, order total and weight of the product.
  • Carrier-calculated shipping
    Sana Commerce provides real-time integration with FedEx shipping services. If FedEx add-on is installed the shipping costs are calculated by FedEx in real-time depending on the selected FedEx shipping method, customer's shipping address, actual weight and dimensions of the package.
    For more information about how to install and configure FedEx shipping carrier, see 'FedEx'.

Set up shipping methods:
Under the Shipping methods tab click New item. You can create as many shipping methods based on different calculation methods as needed.

The table below provides the description of the fields and settings that should be configured when you create shipping methods:

Fields and settings Description
Name Enter the name of the shipping method.
Enabled Enable/disable the shipping method.
You can also enable/disable shipping methods on the shipping methods list page.
External shipping method Map the shipping method to the one configured in your ERP system.

If the shipping method in Sana Admin is mapped to the shipping method in your ERP system, then when a customer places an order in the webstore the selected shipping method will be stored in the sales order in the ERP system.

See also:
Microsoft Dynamics NAV: Shipping Provider and Methods
Microsoft Dynamics AX: Shipping Provider and Methods
SAP Business One: Shipping Methods

Image Add an image icon of the shipping provider.
If you add an icon, it will be shown in the webstore in the list of delivery methods.
Link You can add a link to the external website or internal page that contains some additional information.
Calculation method Select the calculation method:
  • Fixed per country - this calculation method uses fixed amounts based on countries of delivery and currency.
  • By country and order total - this calculation method uses fixed amounts based on countries of delivery, currency and order total.
  • By country and weight - this calculation method uses fixed amounts based on countries of delivery, currency and order weight.
  • FedEx - the shipping costs are calculated by FedEx in real-time depending on the FedEx service type, customer's shipping address, actual weight and dimensions of the package.

When you select the FedEx calculation method the configuration of shipping costs is not available as shipping costs are calculated by FedEx in real-time. If you create FedEx shipping method you should select FedEx service type.

  The FedEx calculation method is available only when the FedEx add-on is installed.
For more information about how to install and configure the FedEx shipping carrier, see 'FedEx'.

Shipping costs Enter the fixed shipping costs that are based on country and currency and other aspects, like order amount or weight, depending on the selected calculation method.

Fixed per country
Select the country and currency for which the shipping costs should be set. The lists of countries and currencies are retrieved from your ERP system.

Enter the shipping costs including and excluding tax. When a customer places an order in the webstore the appropriate price is retrieved depending on whether the prices including VAT (sales tax) is enabled or disabled for the customer in your ERP system.

By country and order total
Select the country and currency for which the shipping costs should be set. The lists of countries and currencies are retrieved from your ERP system.

Enter the minimum order amount and the maximum order amount. For all orders below the minimum order amount and above the maximum order amount the shipping costs will not be applied.

Enter the shipping costs including and excluding tax. When a customer places an order in the webstore the appropriate price is retrieved depending on whether the prices including VAT (sales tax) is enabled or disabled for the customer in your ERP system.

By country and weight
Select the country and currency for which the shipping costs should be set. The lists of countries and currencies are retrieved from your ERP system.

Enter the minimum weight and the maximum weight. For all orders below the minimum order amount and above the maximum order amount the shipping costs will not be applied. To set up the unit of mass (gram, kilogram, ounce or pound) for shipping costs calculation based on the weight in Sana Admin click: Setup > Products > Units of measure and select weight unit.

Enter the shipping costs including and excluding tax. When a customer places an order in the webstore the appropriate price is retrieved depending on whether the prices including VAT (sales tax) is enabled or disabled for the customer in your ERP system.

Service type FedEx gives you choices when you want to ship online.
When you create a FedEx shipping method select one of the available FedEx service types. Each FedEx service type calculates prices depending on different aspects, like country of delivery, weight of a package and its dimensions. When a customer places an order in the webstore availability of FedEx shipping methods also depends on these aspects.

For a detailed information about different FedEx services, visit FedEx website.

Availability per country Select countries for which the shipping method should be available. If some country is not selected, the shipping method will not be available to the customers of that country.

Applies to the calculation methods by country and order total and by country and weight.
  • If the country is not in the shipping costs list or it is in the list, but the order amount is out of the order weights range/order amounts range, the default shipping cost is taken in this case.
  • If there is no default shipping cost for this order weights range/order amounts range, then no shipping cost can be applied to this country.
  • If there is no order weights range/order amounts range for the country and no default, than the shipping method will not be visible to the customer.
  • If only one shipping method is available for the country, than it will not be visible to the customer on the second step of the checkout process. It will be applied automatically.

When the shipping methods are created you can sort them simply by dragging and dropping in the list. In the webstore the shipping methods are shown in the order determined in Sana Admin.

Translate shipping method names

Under the Shipping methods tab you can also select any available language in the dropdown and provide the names of the shipping methods in the selected language. When you translate the shipping methods name into any language you can also change the icon of the shipping method and inherit from the source shipping method or specify internal page or external URL with some additional information.

See also:

Shipping
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