CSS has a wide variety of capabilities when it comes to charging freight. This articles describes at a high level what the application can do. Contact Commerce Vision for more information on any of these functions.
Standard Freight
- Allows for unlimited carriers to be defined.
- For each carrier, unlimited charging zones can be set up. A charging zone contains a start and end postcode within a country.
- Minimum weight allowed
- Maximum weight allowed
- Maximum volume allowed
- Order Limit for no charge - this defines the value the customer needs to buy before they get free freight
- Start and End Order Value range - this is useful when it is required to have different freight amounts based on dollar value (handy where weight is not defined on products)
- Volume to weight conversion
- Track and Trace URL
- Calculation of freight can be done using (base $ + $ / kg) OR % of Order total
Region Freight
- Allows for a rule to be set up that can be assigned to a debtor (normally B2B only). it is linked to the debtors delivery sequence which is maintained in PRONTO
- Allows for start and end order values
- Calculation of freight is either a flat $ charge OR % of order value
- Supports product group exclusions or inclusions
- See our Region Freight article for more information
Product Type Freight
- Works with Standard freight
- Allows for product types to be defined to handle bulky products (e.g. Trampolines)
- Overrides standard freight for those items
Other Features
- Allow for store pick up
- Allow for own couriers
- Allow for quoting when no freight zone
- Define charge types
- Product Delivery restrictions (product vs postcode or country)
- Live freight call to PRONTO
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