What are shipping templates?
Shipping templates are predefined shipping options that you can assign to your products.
The benefits of shipping templates in brief:
- faster item uploading: the shipping template only needs to be entered once, then for each item with the same shipping settings, the seller only needs to select the template previously entered. This makes the item upload process faster and easier, as you do not have to enter the same information over and over again.
- easy updating of shipping fees, settings: if shipping fees or settings change later, the change only needs to be made on the shipping template, as the shipping setting is automatically changed for each item linked to the template. This way, you can update the shipping settings for hundreds or even thousands of items with just a few clicks. The fact that customers are presented with accurate and up-to-date delivery charges has been shown to further increase customer willingness to buy.
How do shipping templates work and what are they for?
Depending on the type of items the seller is offering for sale, the shipping settings can usually be grouped into larger categories that are repeated. This is because an item of a similar size and nature is usually delivered to the buyer for the same price, usually with the same usual shipping options.
Each seller has its own tried and tested shipping methods, as well as shipping fees that are tailored to the size and type of the item. But it may also be the case that a seller ships all its items using the same shipping options for the same fee.
The seller may set shipping templates based on the items they offer for sale. A shipping template only needs to be entered once, after which the seller only needs to select the previously entered template for each item with the same shipping options.
The advantage of this is that if the price of a shipping option changes in the future, the change only needs to be made once. The shipping fee will then be updated for all items for which that template has been set.
Shipping templates therefore not only speed up the process of uploading items, but also allow bulk updates of shipping fees for existing items to be done in seconds.
Below we have collected the most frequently asked questions about shipping templates and the answers to them.