Shipping matrices
The Shipping matrices offer a powerful & flexible way to manage how much your customers are charged for delivery.
Create/Edit a Shipping matrix
Feature | What it does |
Label | Give your matrix a unique meaningful name. |
Label in order | This is the label that the customer sees on their order & invoice. |
Article number | If you export orders, this is the stock code that will be exported. |
Customer specific | Select this if the matrix is for a specific customer or group of customers. Enabling this will show the customer selection information at the bottom of the page. |
Base cost | This is the standard cost of the delivery. |
Percent of order value cost | Set a percentage for the store to calculate shipping cost against the order value. |
As with every price in the back end of Nettailer, the base cost should be entered without VAT.
Delivery
Feature | What it does |
Delivery specific | If you want to give the end user multiple delivery choices (E.G. Next day, economy delivery, Saturday delivery, etc.,) select this box. |
Delivery options | If the Matrix is delivery specific, pick which delivery or deliveries it applies to. |
Geographical area
Feature | What it does |
Area specific | Tick this box if you want this shipping matrix to be area specific |
Countries List | Here you may select the countries you want to include in this shipping matrix (these first need the be creates in the Countries section and then given properties in the Geographical areas section) |
Weight
Feature | What it does |
Use | If you want shipping to be calculated based on the weight of the goods in the basket, select this box. |
Weight(g) | Enter the lower & upper weights (in grams) of the weight range. |
Cost | Specify the additional cost that will be added to the base cost. |
Distributor
Feature | What it does |
Multiple distributor modifier - Add to | Adds a cost to the shipping matrix for orders that require stock from multiply suppliers. Will be applied once for every distributor after the first. This setting adds a specific amount per distributor |
Multiple distributor modifier - Multiply with | Provides an exponential increase based on the number of distributors |
Use distributor modifier | Tick to enable this feature, takes into account the values specified under Supplier settings |
Multiply with the number of distributors | This may be used to disable the first options value from multiplying for every supplier attached to the order. Instead you can use the base value as an absolute amount if more than one supplier is used or you may specify the min or max amount of times to multiply the value by regardless of how many suppliers are used to fulfill an order. |
Min/max cost
The Min/max cost enables you to charge different costs of delivery depending on the cost of the goods in the basket in a similar fashion to Price logics.
Feature | What it does |
Order value | Select the range of order values. |
Min / Max | Enter the min & max price for delivery. |
Example Shipping Matrices
Example fixed price Shipping Matrix
Setting | Value |
Label | All orders £8 delivery. |
Label in order | Standard Delivery |
Article number | CAR-DEF |
Customer specific | no |
Base cost | 6.66 |
Delivery | Value |
Delivery specific | yes |
Delivery options | Standard Delivery |
Min/max cost | Value |
Order value | 0 - ∞ |
Min | 6.66 |
Max | 6.66 |
In this example, the Standard Delivery will cost £6.66, irrespective of the value of the goods ordered.
Example of free delivery for any order over £75 (inc VAT)
Setting | Value |
Label | Free delivery over £75 |
Label in order | Standard Delivery |
Article number | CAR-DEF |
Customer specific | no |
Base cost | 6.66 |
Delivery | Value |
Delivery specific | yes |
Delivery options | Standard Delivery |
Min/max cost | Value |
Order value | 0 - 62.49 |
Min | 6.66 |
Max | 6.66 |
Order value | 62.50 - ∞ |
Min | 0.00 |
Max | 0.00 |
In this example, orders with a value of over £75 inc VAT, will not be charged delivery.
Example of delivery calculated by weight of goods
Setting | Value |
Label | Delivery by Weight |
Label in order | Standard Delivery |
Article number | CAR-DEF |
Customer specific | no |
Base cost | 0.00 |
Delivery | Value |
Delivery specific | yes |
Delivery options | Standard Delivery |
Weight | Value |
Use | yes |
Lower Weight(g) | Upper Weight(g) | Cost |
0 | 249 | 3.00 |
250 | 999 | 5.00 |
1000 | 2499 | 7.50 |
2500 | 4999 | 10.00 |
5000 |
| 12.50 |
In this example, a small order weighing less than 250g will attract a £3.00 delivery fee, but heavier orders will cost more, up to a maximum of £12.50.
Example of shipping calculated depending on how many suppliers are involved in the order
Setting | Value |
Label | Delivery by Supplier |
Label in order | Standard Delivery |
Article number | CAR-DEF |
Customer specific | no |
Base cost | 7.20 |
Delivery | Value |
Delivery specific | yes |
Delivery options | Standard Delivery |
Supplier | Value |
Supplements for several suppliers | 1,2 (Multiplied with) |
Use extensions from supplier | yes |
Min/max cost | Value |
Order value | 0 - ∞ |
Min | 7.20 |
Max | 7.20 |
In this example, an order containing products from multiple suppliers will cost 20% per supplier;
Number of suppliers involved | Cost ex VAT | Cost incl VAT |
1 supplier | 7.20 | 9.00 |
2 suppliers | 8.64 (7.20x1,2) | 10.8 |
3 suppliers | 10.368 (8.64x2) | 12.96 |
With two suppliers involved, shipping will cost the customer £10.8 incl. VAT.
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