10. Fast and Easy postage (if you only ship to the UK)

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Fast and Easy postage if you are only shipping to the UK.

There is an advantage in simplicity, especially after Brexit, so if you only want to ship your products to the UK, you can using free shipping.

This is the easiest and fastest way to setup shipping, the entire process takes less than 5 minutes and you do not have to do anything when you add new products. You can only use this method if you are willing to offer free postage to the UK, but  remember you can recover the cost by simply increasing your item prices.

While some traders may wish to limit their products to the UK to avoid export issues, or it may be too difficult or expensive to export items, anyone can use this method to make shipping simple.

  • For simplicity if you are only shipping to the UK you can include the postage cost within each item price.
  • If you want to use free shipping, but would like to ship some of your products worldwide, you can add either, per product shipping or the default shipping class to those products. Free shipping will override other methods for the UK, and the rates you set will be applied to other countries
  • Step by step instructions on how to set free shipping for the UK are shown below

Select Settings and then Shipping from your Store Manager

  • Select the Settings option from the menu on the left side of your store manager display.
  • Select Shipping from the list of settings
  • Enable the Shipping checkbox
  • Enter your processing time to prepare/make/customise products
  • Edit the UK Zone
  • Click the Add Shipping Method
  • Select Free Shipping
  • If you have not setup shipping on any of your products separately, it is done

Important: Only add Free Shipping to the UK zone, unless you are willing to cover the cost of shipping abroad.

  • You should only have Free Shipping for UK
  • No other zone should have Free Shipping

No Setting Required on Products

  • Once Free Shipping is setup that will work for any of your products with no further setup,
  • If you have not already set any shipping options individually on your products no further setup is required
  • If you have setup either shipping classes, or per product shipping on some products and want to convert them to UK only free shipping. Open the Store Manager, select Products and then Shipping and deselect/remove any shipping classes or per product shipping. Until the product looks like the illustration.