Hey team, I am about to start a store selling products in New Zealand. I’ve got no idea of the best way to calculate shipping costs based on location (there doesn’t seem to be anything for NZ postal services, just American and Canadian) - Should I just go a flat rate for rural and a flat rate fo…

We sell within NZ and use NZ Couriers as our courier. They have a Shopify app (Gosweetspot) which manages the shipments including printing the labels. It works very well and is free. We had Fastways before but had to do it with the ShipIt app which was $50/month and was not as good. The other courie…

We have noticed today that the region setting for New Zealand is not working as it should. We set Auckland region with rates All other north island region with rates South island region with rates On checkout though, a Christchurch address is giving Auckland rates. We removed and re ad…

Yes we are having the same issue. Its just defaulting to the first shipping rate.

I have the same issue which arose yesterday- spoke with support chat who said they were working on it. As a stopgap, I have removed the regions and put more shipping options, so that at checkout the buyer is offered 4 options to choose from North I, North I Rural, South I, South I Rural. I remov…

We have this logged with Shopify support and advised that it has been priority assigned with shipping specialist.

Did you get this resolved? I’m also trying to set up shipping rates and at a loss at how to calculate properly..

Hi I have not made progress on this beyond offering the buyer the option between normal and rural deliveries, and hope he is honest. Some are and some are not. We monitor our overall freight cost against what we charge customers and it is more or less balanced because we make a profit on same d…

@David_Moore when you say “add rural option and hope customer is honest”, are you talking about adding more shipping rates, or something else? I don’t see any “rural option” in the options. We currently have one zone and six different rates based on package size – is there any better option than cr…

Hi Pat Have you found a workable solution? Unfortunately the Shopify Shipping module has very limited functionality for the NZ market, as I’m sure you have discovered. Here’s a thread I have been contributing to: https://community.shopify.com/c/Payments-Shipping-Fulfillment/New-Zealand-Shopify-C…

Can’t seem to find this app anymore - GoSweetSpot. Is there any better alternative?

How to calculate and print shipping labels in New Zealand?

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Justine2020 July 6, 2020, 9:38am 10

Is there any updates on rural shipping in NZ

how do we set this up?

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