Shipping rates can be set on a per product basis. This is useful for altering the shipping rates offered for an item that has to ship a certain way. This is controlled by the Shipping Details section on the product's record. In order to see this section, you must put a product in edit mode.

 

Field Overview

 

 

Ship as a separate package

- Squirrelcart does it's best to figure out which items can be shipped in the same package. If you know that an item should ship as a separate package, checking this box will make your shipping rates more accurate.

 

Ship Using

- This field controls whether this item will ship using a specific service that you specify, or via any services available (via Rules and Real Time Rates)        

 

Possible Values

a specific service - choosing this will make the Service, Postage is, and Postage fields appear.

enabled services (default) - this setting will allow the rates for this item to be derived from a combination of Shipping Rules and Real Time Rates

 

Ship From (appears when Inventory Control is not enabled)

- When Inventory Control is disabled, this field controls where this item will ship from.

 

 

Service (appears when "Ship Using" is set to "a specific services")

- This field is used to specify the service you want to use to ship the product

 

Postage is (appears when "Ship Using" is set to "a specific services")

- This field controls how the postage will be derived.

 

Possible Values

a set amount - If set to "a set amount", the field named "Postage" will appear.

calculated using shipping rules (default)

 

Postage (appears when "Postage is" is set to "a set amount")

- This field is used to specify a set postage amount.

 

 

USPS Specifics

 

Qualifies for Media Mail

- When checked, this item will be included in real time rate lookups for the Media Mail service

 

Qualifies for BPM

- When checked, this item will be included in real time rate lookups for BPM service (Bound Printed Matter)