Shipping

You can manage Solidus's available shipping methods, shipping categories, and stock locations from the Settings > Shipping page.

Shipping methods

You can manage your store's shipping methods on the Settings > Shipping page, on the Shipping Methods tab.

When you create a shipping method, the following settings are available:

• Name: The name for the shipping method. Customer may see this name during checkout and on invoices.
• Internal Name: The administrative name for the shipping method. Customers do not see the internal name for the shipping method.
• Code: An optional code that identifies the shipping method.
• Carrier: The carrier being used by this shipping method.
• Tracking URL: A tracking URL pattern that provides tracking for packages. For example, https://quickship.com/package?num=:tracking, where :tracking is a variable that is replaced by every shipment's tracking number.
• Available to users: Sets whether the shipping method should be available to users during checkout. If this is not checked, only store administrators can assign the shipping method to shipments from the admin interface.
• Shipping Categories: Only products with the selected shipping categories can use this shipping method. For more information, see Shipping categories below.
• Base Calculator: The shipping calculator that should be used for the current shipping method. The available fields depend on the calculator chosen. For more information, see Shipping calculators below.
• Zones: Only customers in the selected zones can use this shipping method. For more information, see the Zones documentation.
• Tax Category: Optionally set a tax category that applies to this shipping method. See the Taxes article for more information about tax categories.

Shipping calculators

Shipping methods require a shipping calculator in order to calculate shipping for each possible shipment that your store could send out.

The following shipping calculators are available by default:

• Flat percent: Pick a flat percentage of the order price to charge.
• Flat rate: Pick a flat rate to charge.
• Flexible rate per package item: Pick rates for the first item and another rate for any number of additional items. See Flexible rate per package item for more information.
• Flat rate per package item: Pick a flat rate for each item being shipped.
• Price sack: Charge a shipping rate or a discounted shipping rate, depending on the order subtotal. See Price sack for more information.

If your shipments require more specialized calculations, or you would like to integrate a live shipping estimates from an external service, talk to your developers.

Flexible rate per package item

When you select the Flexible rate per package item calculator, the following settings are available:

• First Item: The rate that should be charged for the first item in a package.
• Additional Item: The rate that should be charged for additional items in a package.
• Max Items: The maximum number of items that the flexible rate should be applied to.
• Currency: The currency that shipping is charged in.

For example, you can charge $5 for the first item and $1 for each additional item. If you set the Max Items setting to 3, then a customer is charged $7 shipping if they buy three items ($5 + $1 + $1).

The flexible rate is re-applied if the customer goes over the set Max Items number. For example, if they buy six items instead of three items, they are only charged an additional $7 (a second flexible rate of $5 + $1 + $1).

Price sack

When you select the Price sack calculator, the following settings are available:

• Minimal Amount: If the order subtotal is less than this value, the shipping rate equals the normal amount that you set.
• Normal Amount: The normal shipping charge.
• Discount Amount: The discounted shipping charge. This is charged only if the order subtotal is greater than the set minimal amount.
• Currency: The currency that shipping is charged in.

For example, you could create a price sack shipping calculator with these settings:

• Minimal Amount: $50
• Normal Amount: $15
• Discount Amount: $5

A customer who orders a t-shirt that costs $20 would be offered a shipping rate of $15 using this shipping method. A customer who order three t-shirts, for a subtotal of $60, would be offered a shipping rate of $5.

Shipping categories

You can manage your store's shipping categories on the Settings > Shipping page, on the Shipping Categories tab.

When you create a new shipping category, you simply give it a Name value. You can assign this shipping category to any of your products .

Shipping categories relate to your store's shipping methods . Each shipping method can allow or disallow products with certain shipping categories.

If you assign two products to two different shipping categories, you could ensure that these items are always sent as separate shipments.

For example, if your store can only ship oversized products via a specific carrier, called "USPS Oversized Parcels", then you could create a shipping category called "Oversized" for that shipping method, which can then be assigned only to oversized products.

Stock locations

You can manage your store's stock locations on the Settings > Shipping page, on the Stock Locations tab. Each stock location represents a location where your products ship from.

Product stock can be managed from the Stock page or while you add or edit products (from the Product Stock tab).

Stock locations have the following settings:

• Name: Required. The name for the stock location. Customers could see this name during checkout or in invoices.
• Code: An optional code that identifies the current stock location.
• Internal Name: The administrative name of the stock location. Only store administrators would see this name.
• Active: Sets whether the stock location is active and can be used.
• Default: Sets whether this stock location should be used as the default stock location. Only one of your stock locations can be the default one.
• Backorderable default: Sets whether this stock location should allow backorders by default. This is enabled by default.
• Propagate all variants: Sets whether this stock location should create stock items for all of your store's variants . This is enabled by default.
• Restock inventory: Sets whether returned items should restock inventory at this stock location. This is enabled by default.
• Fulfillable: Sets whether the stock items at this location are fulfillable. When the checkbox is checked, then stock is checked before shipments can be confirmed, and emails will be sent to customers about the stock items. This is enabled by default.
• Check stock on transfer: Sets whether stock should be checked when transferred to another stock location. This is enabled by default.

You can also optionally set the address for the stock location using the provided Address fields.