This is a fantastic solution if your store is selling one-off,
heavy or large products which require additional shipping, unlike the
rest of your catalog, or if you only have a few products with set
shipping fees.
How Per-Product Shipping can be used
Per-Product Shipping can be used in two ways:
- Multiple Shipping Methods: If enabled, rates can be
applied in addition to your other shipping methods. For example: If
your store offered a bulky product that you wanted to set up with extra
shipping fees, you could create a fee to be added to that specific
product. If you had multiple items in your cart, two kinds of shipping
would be represented in one cost — a) your default shipping costs for
the other items in the cart, and b) the shipping cost of the bulky item.
- Standalone Method: In this scenario the
‘per-product shipping’ is the default shipping method. In this case, all
product costs are added together to form a single rate. When the
Standalone method is chosen, no other shipping methods are offered.