Hi,
I’m new to shopify and am very much looking forward to selling shirts, tanks, hoodies on the platform! My question involves shipping, and I could greatly use your assistance.
I’ve setup my site and am using Printify for creating T-shirts, tanks, and sweatshirts. I’ve selected different vendors such as Awkward Styles, Bella & Canvas, and SwiftPod (a few others as well) for building the product.
I’m trying to wrap my head around Shipping. Most of the shirts are either $4 for one item and $2 for additional, or $4.80 and $2 for additional (Tshirt shipping prices). Do I need to create profiles for each vendor, each product type, can I use the default shipping profile, or am I over complicating this? What I don’t want to do is overcharge a customer or charge them $4 for a Awkward Styles shirt and $4 for a SwiftPod shirt in one order (you get the idea).
Curious how you’ve navigated a shipping scenario with 1 POD (Printify) and multiple clothing products from different vendors within Printify.
So far I’m thinking about starting just within the U.S. until I fully grasp shipping.
Any assistance, examples, or screenshots of what have done would be greatly appreciated!
Hi @noochi01 ,
Well if you want to charge $4 for first item and $2 for each additional,and at the same time there are items with different shipping rates, you will need to define 2 locations and put each item under one of it.
But in your case I see another problem there, shopify do not have ability to increase shipping fee for each additional item.
Anyway there are some workarounds, you will need to define product weight for each variant, lets say it’s 1lb and create shipping rules which increate price by products weight:
- 1lb → $4
- 2lb → $6
- 3lb → $8
- etc…
Also I would suggest to create additional rule which would prevent cases when no delivery options are returned to customer, like >10lb then $20, but it’s up to you.
So in the end you would end up with having 2 sets of delivery rules, one for shirts and ane for T-shirts. Which would be combined on the checkout for example if customer want’s to purchase 1 shirt and 2 T-shirts he would be requested to pay (($4) + ($4.8 + $2)).
There may be some apps on the shopify store which allows you to create delivery rates more flexibly, but I just wanted to let you know how you can handle your case by using internal shopify features.
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Hi Simon,
Thank you for taking the time to read my post and to provide solutions. I greatly appreciate it!!!
In this example for shirts,
Awkward Styles charges $4.80 for 1 item and $2 for additional
SwiftPod charges $4 for 1 item and @2 for additional
Stoked On Printing charges $4 for 1 item and @2 for additional
To round up, let’s say all three charge $8 for Sweatshirts
How do you suggest I set these up? Is it possible to create a shipping profile that includes multiple vendors? In this case, could I create a shipping profile for shirts that charges $4.80 then $2 additional which includes Awkward Styles, SwiftPod, and Stoked on Printing? They’re all through Printify. This means it would upcharge Swift and Stoked products by .80, but cover shipping on Awkward.
Not sure if this will work though as I might be eating an $8 cost of two vendors in this three vendor example.
Thanks,
Mike
I would suggest to create separe location for each vendor since multiple vendors can be added under same profile. Having each vendor under separate location will give you flexibility in case one of them change shipping rates and you will need to move it under separate profile.
Delivery profiles do not use vendors, it’s using locations, so you can create location for each vendor, or create locations based on your needs and assign products to those locations based on fees vendor charge for shipping.
In my opinion dedicating location for each vendor is cleaner solution and it’s easier to understand the concept during shipping fees management in the future (believe me when you use more complex logic you may forget how things for in few months even in cases when you are the one who defined it).