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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, UPS and USPS shipping services. Carrier-calculated shipping services are available as add-ons which can be downloaded from the Sana Community web site and installed for you Sana project. Only the registered Sana partners can access Sana Community. If you are a customer and you want to install the add-on, please contact your Sana partner or Sana project manager.
If the add-on is installed the shipping costs are calculated by the shipping service real-time depending on the selected shipping method, customer's shipping address, actual weight and dimensions of the package.

If you are going to use shipping methods based on weight and physical dimensions of a package, read how to set up weight of a product and physical dimensions in the ERP system:

Microsoft Dynamics NAV: Item Physical Dimensions
Microsoft Dynamics AX: Product Physical Dimensions

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 Microsoft Dynamics GP: Shipping Methods SAP Business One: Shipping Methods SAP: 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.
Description	You can add a description to the shipping method. Shipping method description is shown in the Sana web store on the 'Delivery method' checkout step, where a customer can select the shipping method he or she wants his or her order to be delivered.
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. UPS - the shipping costs are calculated by UPS in real-time depending on the UPS service type, customer's shipping address, actual weight and dimensions of the package. USPS - the shipping costs are calculated by USPS real-time depending on the USPS service type, customer's shipping address, actual weight and dimensions of the package. When you select the FedEx, UPS or USPS calculation method the configuration of shipping costs is not available as shipping costs are calculated by the shipping service real-time. If you create FedEx, UPS or USPS calculation method you should select the service type.
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.

When a customer places an order and it does not match the configured shipping cost conditions, for example by customer's shipping address, order total or order weight, the shipping method will not be shown to the customer.

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. The cheapest shipping method is selected by default.

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.

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Updated: January 2017