Creating Postage Rules

Creating Postage Rules

Charging the right price for your postage is essential to selling online. Our postage rules tool will allow you to set up postage options to suit any product or group of products.  You may even wish to disallow delivery to certain areas or for certain products.  A few examples of postage rules regularly used by our retailers:
  1. Free delivery on baskets over £xxx (can be separate for bikes or P&A)
  2. No delivery to the Highlands (post code limited)
  3. White glove delivery to the local area (post code limited)
  4. Next day/48 hour services (optional more expensive services)

Basic Set-up


In order for a postage rule to function the following pieces of information are required:
  1. Label
  2. Price
  3. Min / Max basket Value
  4. Continent
  5. Availability

Label

This is the label displayed to the customer during the checkout process.

Price

This is the price you would like to charge for postage, please enter this without the currency symbol. We use your default currency for this.

Min / Max Basket Value

This is the basket value range that this rule is applicable.

Continent

This is the continent where the postage rule is applicable.

Availability

There are two options within the Availability section that are compulsory. Store Products means if all products in the basket are available from store stock this rule will apply. Warehouse Stock means that if any single product in the basket is from Supplier / Warehouse stock this rule will apply.

Advanced Set-up

There are several advanced options available for postage rules. We'll explain these here.
  1. Countries
  2. Postcode Prefixes
  3. Restrict Group of Products
  4. Block

Countries

You can choose a number of countries that this postage rule applies to.

Postcode Prefixes

You can enter a comma or newline separated list of postcode prefixes that this rule can apply. As an example the postcode prefixes for Shetlands, Northern Ireland and IOM are:

IV25,IV26,IV27,IV28,IV30,IV31,IV32,IV36,IV37,IV41,IV42,IV43,IV44,IV45,IV46,IV47,IV48,IV49,IV51,IV55,IV56,IV63,KW1,KW10,KW11,KW12,KW13,KW14,KW2,KW3,KW5,KW6,KW7,KW8,KW9,PH15,PH16,PH18,PH42,PH43,PH44,PH45,PH46,PH47,PH48PH17,PH19,PH20,PH21,PH22,PH23,PH24,PH25,PH26,PH33,PH34,PH35,PH36,PH37,PH38,PH39,PH40,PH41,PH49,HS1,HS2,HS3,HS4,HS5,HS6,HS7,HS8,HS9,KA27,KA28,KW15,KW16,KW17,PA20,PA21,PA22,PA23,PA24,PA25,PA26,PA27,PA28,PA29,PA30,PA31,PA32,PA33,PA34,PA35,PA37,PA38,PA39,PA41,PA42,PA43,PA44,PA45,PA46,PA47,PA48,PA49,PA60,PA61,PA62,PA63,PA64,PA65,PA66,PA67,PA68,PA69,PA70,PA71,PA72,PA73,PA74,PA75,PA76,PA77,PA78,JE1,JE2,JE3,JE4,JE5,GY1,GY2,GY3,GY4,GY5,GY6,GY7,GY8,GY9,GY10,ZE1,ZE2,ZE3,BT5,BT6,BT7,BT8,BT9,BT10,BT11,BT12,BT13,BT14,BT15,BT16,BT17,BT18,BT19,BT20,BT21,BT22,BT23,BT24,BT25,BT26,BT27,BT28,BT29,BT30,BT31,BT32,BT33,BT34,BT35,BT36,BT37,BT38,BT39,BT40,BT41,BT42,BT43,BT44,BT45,BT46,BT47,BT48,BT49,BT51,BT52,BT53,BT54,BT55,BT56,BT57,BT60,BT61,BT62,BT63,BT64,BT65,BT66,BT67,BT68,BT69,BT70,BT71,BT74,BT75,BT76,BT77,BT78,BT79,BT80,BT81,BT82,BT92,BT93,BT94,BT1,BT2,BT3,BT4,PO30,PO31,PO32,PO33,PO34,PO35,PO36,PO37,PO38,PO39,PO40,PO41,IM1,IM2,IM3,IM4,IM5,IM6,IM7,IM8,IM9,IM86,IM87,IM99,TR21,TR22,TR23,TR24,TR25,AB37,AB38,AB41,AB42,AB43,AB44,AB45,AB46,AB47,AB48,AB49,AB50,AB51,AB52,AB53,AB54,AB55,AB56,IV1,IV2,IV3,IV4,IV5,IV6,IV7,IV8,IV9,IV,10,IV11,IV12,IV13,IV14,IV15,IV16,IV17,IV18,IV19,IV20,IV21,IV22,IV23,IV24


Restrict Group of Products

Using the powerful product grouping tool, postage rules can be set to apply if a product in the basket exists in the product group. If this is used all other postage rules will be removed. In the case of multiple matches, the most expensive rule will apply.

Block

This checkbox can be used to prevent any delivery options showing if the rule is met. This is helpful if you do not deliver to certain areas or certain products in a group and wish to block the delivery.

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