Magento 2 Beginner Class; Lesson #26: Configuring Magento Shipping; Part 1 Video Lecture | Magento: Build an E-Commerce Site (English)

once we have our product set up and
we've configured our ability to accept
payments and apply the appropriate taxes
to those transactions it's time to focus
on getting those orders from us to the
customer so now let's talk about
shipping shipping is managed in three
primary parts of the website all right
next to each other if we go to stores
and configuration then if we scroll down
to sales and open that up let's scroll
down a little bit more we have shipping
settings multi shipping settings and
shipping methods let's take a look at
these one at a time shipping settings is
pretty brief we're going to put in the
origin this is where we're shipping from
so that we charge the appropriate rates
based on where the order is going to and
then shipping policy parameters what
this is is if you select yes here then
you can just have a shipping policy that
will appear to the customer usually
that's not necessary but it's an option
so I'm just going to fill in some
information here and apparently I'm
gonna be shipping from Birmingham
California not that that's a real place
but doesn't really matter for our
purposes at this point as always you'll
save your configuration and we're gonna
need to flush our cache later but before
we do that let's go on down to multi
shipping settings this part of the
website is also pretty self-explanatory
we can allow shipping to multiple
addresses by default that's set to yes
if we want to turn that off of course we
can change that to no but we'll keep
that as yes and then we have a maximum
quantity allowed for shipping to
multiple addresses so if someone orders
more than this number of things they
will not be allowed to ship to multiple
addresses again pretty self-explanatory
now if we go down to shipping methods
this is really the meat of your shipping
configuration so we have a lot more
options here a lot more things to play
around with
we'll start with flat rate to enable
flat rate shipping means that you're
going to charge
one flat rate per item or per order so
first if we want this enabled we're just
going to make sure that we have enabled
yes if we want to turn off flat rate
shipping of course we'll change that to
no title flat rate is what's going to
appear to the customer when they are
selecting their shipping method method
name is also going to appear to the
customer is sort of what this is is this
is kind of a more descriptive term flat
rate is kind of like the title and
Method is kind of like the description
you can think about it that way these
two things mostly come into play when
you start working with UPS and USPS and
things like that in those cases the
title will be ups and then it will have
maybe three or four or five or six
different methods via UPS so you have
UPS ground UPS air things like that then
for flat rate we have type and if we
deselect use system value we can do this
per order or per item we can also do
none and what none will do is it will
not charge anything for the price that
we put here for the flat rate however it
will apply the handling fee
so basically we're saying if we select
none here then there is no charge for a
flat rate however if we have a handling
fee configured here then the handling
fee will be applied on top of that
essentially zero price your selection
here is going to depend largely on what
types of things you're selling or it
will stick with per item for now and
let's say we want to change our price to
$1.00 now this is not to say that this
is going to be the case for every order
again this is only the case for orders
where the user chooses flat rate if then
handling fee is on top of whatever the
calculated rate is so if we say we're
gonna charge a $0.50 handling fee and
we're charging a $1 flat fee per item
and a customer orders three items
then they're gonna pay three dollars and
fifty cents
the handling fee is not applied per item
its applied per order regardless of what
the shipping charges are in general for
calculate handling fee we can change
this to fixed or percent now in most
cases percent is going to make more
sense we'll keep this as fixed just
because that's what we've already been
playing around with but usually when
you're charging a flat rate you're gonna
want that to be some sort of percentage
but not always then we have an error
message for someone tries to select this
and they're not able to we have options
for the flat rate again specifically to
ship to applicable countries and for
this usually it's gonna be all allowed
countries unless you want your flat rate
to be maybe different from your other
rates you can choose specific countries
and then handpick the countries down
here but we're going to stick to all
allowed countries using the system value
now just as a reminder this all allowed
countries option refers to the countries
we set up that we were willing to ship
to in general general up here I'm not
going to go there so we can stay on this
page but that's where that configuration
is that's what all allowed countries
refers to and as usual sort order simply
refers to where this rate appears in
relation to the other rates let's take a
look at free shipping now of course free
shipping as you can tell by its title is
an option where the customer will be
charged nothing for shipping usually
this minimum order amount is the crucial
setting here because you don't want to
just in most cases always provide free
shipping as an option otherwise you're
gonna be losing a lot of money shipping
things to customers but some sites will
have say $50 minimum to get free
shipping if you order $50 worth of stuff
for us then we'll pay for the shipping
ourselves it's
a way to incentivize customers to spend
a little bit more money of course if we
do want this to be allowed we need to
enable it so instead of no we're going
to deselect you system value and change
this to yes and then we have free
shipping and free these are the words
that the customer is going to see pretty
self-explanatory there and other things
similar to flat rate