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Making shipping methods as tables
I'm not sure how it is in other countries, but in the Netherlands (PostNL) has different rates for a lot of different countries.
In the tables there are 40 different rows for 5 categories, that would account for 200 shipping methods, and that is only shipping letters and small parcels.
For this year I put the countries together that have the same cost, others are combined that do not match exactly.
Still I get about 14 different options per category (so still 70 methods).
It would be nice to be able to make shipping options based on a table.
The table below (if it still is a table after posting) shows a small part.
As columns are the country and weight bands, the rows contain the countries and shipping cost.
For 'Rest Europa' and 'Rest Wereld' there would need to be an extra field where the countries to which it applies can be filled in.
0-100 100-200 200-350 350-500 500-1000 1000-2000
Australië 7,05 9,25 12,70 13,55 21,00 23,70
België 4,95 5,95 7,75 8,25 8,95 9,95
Canada 6,25 8,05 10,80 13,00 16,65 21,30
Rest Europa 4,50 5,95 8,05 9,35 9,60 10,85
Rest Wereld 6,75 9,00 12,25 13,00 19,95 22,35
This way, only 5 shipping methods would have to be used.
This is not only much easier to maintain, but also easier to see what is missing or wrong.
I think that, at least for Dutch sellers using business PostNL, this could be very welcomed.
Or if you do it a different way that does not include making 50+ shipping methods, but does differentiate, please let me know.
I see the table in the text is garbled up, but there is an png attached with a correct tabel
In the tables there are 40 different rows for 5 categories, that would account for 200 shipping methods, and that is only shipping letters and small parcels.
For this year I put the countries together that have the same cost, others are combined that do not match exactly.
Still I get about 14 different options per category (so still 70 methods).
It would be nice to be able to make shipping options based on a table.
The table below (if it still is a table after posting) shows a small part.
As columns are the country and weight bands, the rows contain the countries and shipping cost.
For 'Rest Europa' and 'Rest Wereld' there would need to be an extra field where the countries to which it applies can be filled in.
0-100 100-200 200-350 350-500 500-1000 1000-2000
Australië 7,05 9,25 12,70 13,55 21,00 23,70
België 4,95 5,95 7,75 8,25 8,95 9,95
Canada 6,25 8,05 10,80 13,00 16,65 21,30
Rest Europa 4,50 5,95 8,05 9,35 9,60 10,85
Rest Wereld 6,75 9,00 12,25 13,00 19,95 22,35
This way, only 5 shipping methods would have to be used.
This is not only much easier to maintain, but also easier to see what is missing or wrong.
I think that, at least for Dutch sellers using business PostNL, this could be very welcomed.
Or if you do it a different way that does not include making 50+ shipping methods, but does differentiate, please let me know.
I see the table in the text is garbled up, but there is an png attached with a correct tabel
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If your postal provider has many different prices for different countries, we would reccomend averaging similar ones into one shipping method. We do not require stores charge exact postal costs.
https://www.stellarbricks.com/page/delivery
Yes only 5 are visible, but as stated it is only a small part of 1 table.
There are 40 regions/countries per shipping method, and there are (just for the business options) 5 different options.
And sure, averaging similar ones is an option, but is some cases not doable.
Looking at the 2024 table (most used in my store) I will have 20 regions/countries. Maybe I can find a few that can be combined after a really good look.
See image for a complete table