Reduce Shipping costs for us and our customers

[bhansen]

Looking for ways to reduce shipping costs both for our business and for our customers.  Has anyone had any luck with certain apps or practices?  Would love to know what others are doing to help with this.  TIA

[Zopi]

Hi @bhansen,

Regarding your concern, here are some tips that can help:

• Choose a supplier that has a warehouse in your country or region. This way, you can avoid international shipping delays and customs fees.
• Contact the supplier before ordering. Sometimes, the supplier may have some information or suggestions on how to get faster shipping for your order. For example, they may offer you a discount for choosing a faster shipping method, or they may have some stock in a nearby warehouse.
• Include the shipping cost to the selling price and show your customer that you are offer Free Shipping.

A third-party app like Zopi lets you import products and automatically retrieve shipping information from the supplier's site. This allows you to choose your preferred shipping method and seamlessly connect orders with Shopify. Learn more about Zop here: https://help.zopi.io/what-is-zopi.html

[bhansen]

We sell and ship food stuffs, mostly spices but have additional items.  We fulfill our own orders out of our only warehouse.  There is a local pickup option for folks in the area that want to drive to our warehouse to pick up but mostly we ship all over the country.  Shopify rates are nice but on sites such as Walmart, we are fighting with items being unpublished due to "egregious shipping costs" when we have our shipping template adjusted to a point where we are paying for almost half the shipping ourselves and the customers aren't being charged much for shipping at all yet all shipping requires tracking and that is a large part of the cost, the tracking services.  So we are looking for ways to get better rates than what Shopify Shipping offers and that has been proving to be difficult.