Set up shipping schedules to charge for delivery

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Set Up Shipping in WooCommerce Settings

To set up shipping in WooCommerce, you first set up shipping zones, then add methods to those zones, and lastly, rates to your methods. You can create as many zones as you like, and add multiple methods and rates to each zone.

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Shipping Zones

A Shipping Zone is a geographical area to which you ship items. You can get as specific as you need, right down to regions and zip codes, or you can leave it more general – whichever suits you best.

Customers only see the methods available for their address and corresponding zone. Each customer matches only one zone.

For example, you could create these zones in WooCommerce:

Important: WooCommerce is an international plugin. Which means, in most cases currently (year 2022), their zones are not configured for Trinidad and Tobago. This means we have to employ a few smart workarounds to get cities and areas selected. Also, we don’t widely use “post codes”.

How zones work for customers

Using these shipping zones and methods:

• In the Region “California”, I offer Local Pickup and Free Shipping.
• In the Region “United States”, I offer a Domestic Flat Rate.
• In the Region “Canada and U.S. regions”, I offer a different Flat Rate.

This is what your customers would see WHEN they use the Calculate Shipping option at checkout:

CALIFORNIAN CUSTOMER	NON-CALIFORNIAN, U.S. CUSTOMER	INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMER

Keep in mind, these work well WHEN clients navigate site as expected. If you need to educate your local clients (especially) on maneuvering Delivery / Shipping Options, please do so.

Add a Shipping Zone

Go to: WooCommerce > WC Settings . If you don’t see this as an option, request a quick call or drop an email for support.

Click on the “Shipping” tab at the top of your options. Then click “Add Shipping Zone” NB: Ignore any other pop-up messages, they’re not relevant to these steps.

• Enter a descriptive Zone Name, such as Non-Trinidad or Only USA. Clients do not see Zone Names.
  
• Select Zone Regions that apply. Regions can consist of: a) Countries, b) States, c) Continents. Remember, cities or areas for Trinidad and Tobago are not listed under Zone Regions (at this time).
  
  
  
• Select Limit to specific zip/postcodes (if applicable) to further narrow which customers match this zone. For example, you can set a local zone with a specific set of postcodes (one per line); a range of postcodes (e.g. 90210…99000), or use wildcards (e.g. CB23*).
  
• Select which Shipping Methods are available to each zone.

• In the Shipping Methods box, select Add Shipping Method.
  

• Select Flat Rate shipping from the dropdown and then Add Shipping method.

Add Shipping Method

• Select Edit to then setup your Flat Rate costs appropriately.

Once you’re in the Flat rate settings let’s discuss the options you have:

• Enter a Method Title that displays to customers in checkout.
• Select a Tax status – Define whether or not tax is applied to the flat rate Cost. We usually leave this “non taxable”
• Enter Cost of this delivery method
• Select Save changes

• Save changes.