Free Shipping Configuration
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Introduction to Understanding Free Shipping
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Often certain items will always receive free shipping to entice the customer to purchase. In order to configure an item as free shipping you need to navigate to the shipping tab of the item editor:
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Main Menu Items Item Management Items Click the Item Id Shipping (tab)Scroll down to the "Shipping" section |
Once you are on the shipping tab you can check the free shipping box as shown below.
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Once you check this box and save it you are not through with the configuration! You need to tell UltraCart which of your shipping methods qualify for free shipping items. You have two choices below. |
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On this page you need to check the Qualifies for Free Shipping box as shown below.
At this point whenever you mark an item as free shipping, only the methods that qualify for free shipping will be free. If the customer wants a faster method for instance than they will have to pay for the higher priced shipping.
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Alternatively on the shipping tab of the item editor you can mark very specific methods as being free. For example if you normally only provide Ground shipping for your free items, but also want to provide 2-day shipping for free on a specific item then you could use the section shown below.
Global Free Shipping for Method
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At the bottom of the Cost tab is a section for free shipping as shown below:
You can make the shipping method free if:
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Now check the No Shipping Discount checkbox as shown below.
