I have been exploring bonanzle for a week already and i found out putting shipping charges as flat rate going to cause me problem in the future. As for me im selling instant food like noodle and seasoning powder which is the weight of products are various.
If buyer wants to purchase 2 items and unfortunately the first item is the small one which is less in weight and second item is the big one and heavy then i have to charge him/her the correct shipping charges for the small item but i have to charge less for the heavy item because of combine shipping discount.
For example , i set the shipping charges USD 2 for additional item.
The shipping cost for the first item is USD 3
The shipping cost for the second item is USD 5
total shipping cost should be USD 8
but as i put the combine discount as USD 2 for additional item then i can only charge the shipping cost for USD 5. I already lose USD 3 for shipping charges.
The best solution is to check with your local shipping company and charge buyers according to the weight of the item not the quantity of the item. I think it is safer that way to avoid you from losing money.
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You can combine shipping on Bonanzle any way you choose BUT it always takes higher shipping first then charges the additional amount or lesser combined amount you yourself choose. So you can set up your items to combine shipping to add 2.00 each additional item if you would like to and the second and third etc. would be 2.00 shipping each added onto the whole original amount of item with the highest shipping.
ReplyDeleteYou can also choose to take money off instead , say every additional item deducts 50 cents from shipping giving buyers who purchase more a bigger discount.
But it can be set however the seller wants it to be set. In the situation listed here in this blog entry it would have charged 5.00 shipping then the additional shipping would be whatever the seller has chosen it to be per additional item.
Hope this helps