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The shipping settings work closely with the local settings of your PrestaShop installation. While in PrestaShop 1.4 some of these settings were also found "Shipping" tabmenu, in PrestaShop version 1.5 all local settings have been moved in a new tabmenu, named "Localization". This is where you will be able to edit geographical zones, countries, currencies, etc. Therefore, make sure to have a serious look at the "Localization" tabmenu, which is explained in the next chapter of this guide, "Understanding Local Settings". For instance, in order to create a complete carrier in PrestaShop, you must have clearly defined your geographical zones; this is done in the "Zones" page under the "Localization" tabmenu.
Shipping
The more general settings of you shop's shipping configuration are found in the "Shipping" page, under the "Shipping" tabmenu.
The three sections of this page provide global settings:
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Once you have created all your carriers and set all the weight and price ranges for these carriers (with the "Carriers", "Price Ranges" and "Weight Ranges" page under the "Shipping" tabmenu, which are fully explained later in this chapter), it is high time to set their shipping fees per range.
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If the selected carrier has no weight range set, you cannot assign fees to that carrier; you must first create weight ranges for that carrier, in "Weight ranges" page under the "Shipping" tab menu (see below).
You must perform this for all of your carriers.
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- Company. The name is public, so use the official name. You could also add a description of the service. For instance, you could fill in "PrestaPost – 500 lbs and over". If you have create one PrestaShop carrier per shipping services from a single carrier, the name will help you differentiate them.
- Logo. Having a logo helps customers more easily choose between different carriers. PrestaShop will resize your image in order to fit in the order form.
- Transit time. This is displayed to customers during checkout. It will help them select their carrier according to the amount of time they are willing to wait to receive their shipment. Customers can often accept to pay more for a faster carrier.
- Speed grade. The "Transit time" field can contain any text, and thus cannot be used to compare the carriers' transit times. The "Speed grade" setting enables you to give the carrier a grade, from 0 (very slow) to 9 (very fast). This is then used to sort carriers by their speed grade, and help customers choose the one they prefer.
- URL. This field must be filled with the tracking URL provided by your carrier. For example, France's postal service (La Poste) offers this URL: http://www.colissimo.fr/portail_colissimo/suivreResultat.do?parcelnumber=@. When customers select their carrier, they will be sent the URL that you enter into this field, with the "@" replaced by the tracking number provided by the carrier.
- Zone. Note all carriers can deliver worldwide. Indicate the geographical zones in which this carrier is available (the zones where the carrier can make deliveries).
- Group Access. You might want only some user groups to be able to use a carrier. This option serves this purpose.
- Status. Include or exclude this carrier in your shop's list of carriers.
- Apply shipping cost. If enabled, the final order price will include both the carrier's regular shipping fee, along with specific per-product fees, if there are any. If disabled, the final order price will only include the regular shipping fee.
- Tax. Indicate if this carrier requires a local tax in order to deliver to a certain zone.
- Shipping & Handling. Include or exclude shipping & handling costs in this carrier's price.
- Billing. When billing a customer for the shipping service, PrestaShop can apply one of two behaviors. The default behavior is set in the "Shipping" page, under the "Shipping" tabmenu, but you can change that setting on a per-carrier basis thanks to this option.
- According to total price. The shipping bill depends on the total order price.
- According to total weight. The shipping bill depends on the total order weight.
- Out-of-range behavior. In case the chosen carrier has not shipping cost set for the required distance or weight, you can indicate how PrestaShop should react. You have two options:
- Apply the cost of the highest defined range. PrestaShop will take the most costly range and apply its conditions.
- Disable carrier. PrestaShop will not suggest this carrier, since it probably cannot deliver this order.
- Package settings. New to PrestaShop 1.5, you can now indicate the minimum and maximum package height and weight, which are an essential part of choosing a package carrier.
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Once the ranges are determined and allotted to a carrier, you can define the shipping and handling for each range. Go to the first page of the "Shipping" tabmenu, and fill out the table found at the bottom of the page. Here is a sample bill according to the total weight of the order.