When my shipping is in my item description? How does this actually work? How does the buyer purchase?
StarletVintageJewels Reputation: 158 See StarletVintageJewels' booth |
Beautiful items in your booth. I selected an item so that I could share with you how your booth is set up. Your shipping is set up as TBD (to be determined). You have listed the shipping cost in your listing clearly. So when a buyer selects the item or items for purchase, there is a note to the buyer “Submit your order for approval”. The buyer will select submit for approval. When you receive the order detail, you will be asked to review the order. At that time you can fill in the shipping cost. You will then approve it and send it back to the buyer. Then the buyer will select a form of payment. I hope I am right on this as its been awhile since I sold an item. If another seller wishes to correct me, I take construction critisim well. Hope I was able to help. Good luck.
MomentsInThyme Reputation: 734 See MomentsInThyme's booth |
You have tried using the Discounts setting page under Booth Settings, in your My Booth Dashboard, right? Maybe you have and it doesn’t help with your needs.
I can understand that, for instance, all of your heavy bracelets cost more to ship, and each cost is different depending on the zip code to which it will be shipped. You could use batch edit to set shipping for groups of similar products. Set it to high, as some do, and note that you will refund any overage. I’ve read that some sellers compute a shipping cost from coast to coast, list that high-side cost, and refund overages of a certain amount.
Personally, I just decide what i want to charge for shipping, set it per item, and feel that it will balance out. But, once I start selling more, maybe I’ll decide to do it differently. I do like the procedure of computing from coast to coast and just refunding overages.
Good luck to you,
Sandi
EmbellishMart
“Embellishments for your crafting, your space & you!”
EmbellishMart Reputation: 1450 See EmbellishMart's booth |
The problem with batch is that each and every item I sell is a different weight and size. There is no way of communicating to buyer for combined shipping neither. A thick jewelry set will cost more then a flat pendant and chain, a thick bangle bracelet will cost more then a flat bracelet etc. How do you combine items and show the prices for five more items added to the first?
StarletVintageJewels Reputation: 158 See StarletVintageJewels' booth |
Set up combined shipping
Booth Settings
Discounts and Coupons tab
Combined Shipping discounts available (however, please note that when using calc weight this will only be through USPS and does not apply to international)…
Orders totaling at least $XXXXX will receive free shipping. Combine the weight of items from the same order together when calculating shipping costs. Offer a discount for each item after the first when calculating shipping costs. Buyers will pay normal shipping costs for the item with the most expensive shipping costs.For each additional item in their [URL removed] subtract/add percentage/dollars from the price of each item shipped after the most expensive item.
Best bet would be to set up the prices as flat rate by size/weight to each region and then use the %/$ increase decrease for each additional item
For example, I set the prices for all single light items at $3.75 to $4.25 (this depends on whether need a larger or smaller box) and then have the discount set up for each additional item ships for 50% less (because usually after the first item in my case raises the shipping from First Class to priority)
Priority is essentially the same set up…(ave flat rate costs) with the multi-item purchase discount
ccmom Reputation: 12648 See ccmom's booth |
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