Magento Shipping & Delivery options

Shipping costs may be one of the key reasons why shopping carts get abandoned. For this reason, merchants trap into the challenge: how to reap profits and provide customers with attractive shipping rates & methods?

Magento CE is packed with the variety of shipping features. Besides, this functionality can be easily extended, which opens enormous possibilities to shipping customization.

Magento Shipping Methods

Under the shipping methods tab you can configure shipping fees. You can either offer:

• a Flat Rate for every package;
• Free Shipping (usually for domestic orders);
• Table Rates based on various conditions.

In case, you will offer customers UPS/FedEx/DHL for shipping, you need to complete the configuration for each carrier.

Magento Shipping Rules

With Magento Shopping Cart Rules you can create a number of promotions, discounts and sales scenarios to gain customers’ attention. Apply rules to any number of transactions or restrict them to specific products, customer groups or store views.

For example, you can give 10% off for all order over $100 (in the table below), allow free shipping on products from the specific categories or offer “Buy Three for the price of Two”.

Magento Shipping Rates

With Shipping Rates or Table Rates you get 3 ways to price for the shipping:

• Weight vs. destination
• Price vs. destination
• # of Items vs. Destination

In fact, depending on the products’ conditions, you can charge extra or set cheaper shipping for certain countries and regions.

Magento Dropship

Drop shipping is a process where you sell products from your store with the help of 3d party service provides(warehouses, suppliers or manufacturers). Drop shipping has a number of advantages like:

• No need to keep inventory on-hand (which helps to reduce your investment);
• Your vendor picks, packs & ships the products to your customers;
• A broad product offering

By default, Magento doesn’t have a drop shipping feature. But you can use one of the 3 ways to implement this option into your store:



1. Manually drop ship - when an order comes, you email the vendor directly or place an order on the vendor’s website.
2. Purchase a drop shipping extension - helps to automate the whole drop shipping process. You can create different warehouses and assign each product to the warehouse it ships.
3. Use a drop shipping platform - when you sell through multiple channels (like Amazon, website, social media) and mix up online and offline marketplaces.

Also, you may pay attention to the shipping extension for Magento which can simplify shipping configuration on your store.