X-Cart:Shipping Settings

Overview

X-Cart can be set up to calculate the cost of shipping for products being ordered by customers.

By default, shipping calculation in your store is disabled. If you wish to provide shipping cost calculation to your customers, you must enable this functionality. This can be done by disabling the option DISABLE SHIPPING in the 'General settings/Shipping options' section of the store's Admin area.

After you enable shipping cost calculation, you will need to set up the shipping methods that your store will use to deliver orders to customers. You can either define your own shipping methods or use the pre-defined shipping methods provided by such popular carriers as USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL/Airborne, Canada Post and Australia Post.

If you decide to define and use your own shipping methods, the shipping rates for these methods will need to be entered into X-Cart manually.

If you decide to use the shipping methods provided by the carrier companies like USPS, UPS, FedEx, etc, the shipping rates for these methods will need to be obtained from the respective carrier companies. These rates will need to be entered into X-Cart manually or to be obtained in real time from the online shipping calculators provided by the respective carrier companies or InterShipper service.

define shipping methods that will be used by your store to deliver orders to customers and to inform your customers about the shipping methods available to them and about the cost of shipping by these methods. Before placing an order, your customers will be able to get an estimation of shipping cost by different methods and to choose a shipping method by which they wish the order to be shipped.

No shipping calculation

DISABLE SHIPPING (General settings/Shipping options) = on

Real-time shipping calculation

1. DISABLE SHIPPING (General settings/Shipping options) = off 2. Enable real-time shipping calculation (General settings/Shipping options) = on 3. Activate the real-time shipping methods that you wish to use:

a) Go to the 'Shipping methods' section.

b) In the 'Real-time calculated shipping methods' subsection of the 'Shipping methods' dialog box, enable the 'Active' check boxes opposite the methods you wish to use).

c) Click the Update button.

4. Enable your store to use real-time shipping cost calculators

Non-real time shipping calculation

1. DISABLE SHIPPING (General settings/Shipping options) = off 2. Enable real-time shipping calculation (General settings/Shipping options) = off

Roles in shipping settings management

If you are an X-Cart GOLD administrator/provider:

• You can define the shipping methods that will be used by your store. The methods can be real-time and non-real time (See the chapter #Shipping Methods).
• If you decide to use real-time shipping methods, you can enable your store to use real-time shipping cost calculators (See the chapter #Real-time Shipping Calculators).
• If you decide to use non-real time shipping methods, you can adjust shipping rates for them (See the chapter #Shipping Charges).

• For real-time shipping methods, you can adjust markups (See the chapter #Shipping Markups).

If you are an X-Cart PRO administrator:

• You can define the shipping methods that will be used by your store. The methods can be real-time and non-real time (See the chapter #Shipping Methods).
• If you decide to use real-time shipping methods, you can enable your store to use real-time shipping cost calculators (See the chapter #Real-time Shipping Calculators).

If you are an X-Cart PRO provider:

• You can adjust shipping rates for non-real time shipping methods (See the chapter #Shipping Charges).
• You can adjust markups for real-time shipping methods (See the chapter #Shipping Markups).