How to enable and use E-junkie shipping and packaging calculator?

If you want to use calculated shipping (recommended)
E-junkie's shipping calculator needs to know the weight of not only all the items being shipped but also of the packaging being used to ship the products. Apart from weight of packaging, the shipping calculator will also take in account the cost of packaging being used.

1. To define the packages, go to Admin > Cart Shipping Settings and enter the cost and weight of 9 different type of packaging available on the right side. "Tube" is a special type of packaging and should be used if you are selling posters as when E-junkie sees that one of your product is being shipping in a small tube and there is a big tube being used as well in the same order for a different product, and if there is capacity in the big tube, E-junkie will combine the both.
2. In the same screen on the left side you can define where you will be shipping the products from. E-junkie uses USPS for U.S. merchants and configurable per ounce prices for international merchants (and U.S. merchants who need custom prices) to calculate the shipping amount based on the weight and shipping destination.
3. Products weights, the packaging products require and the number of units of a product that can be fit in a single container are defined while adding or editing a product. Those options will be shown in product configuration path when you have "shipping" checkbox checked in the first product configuration screen.

If you want to use Flat rate shipping

• CASE A: Say $5 (domestic) and $10 (international) for each unit of a product
  1. Go to E-junkie Admin > Cart shipping settings.
  2. Enter 1 in "Domestic" per ounce price. Then in "International" per ounce price enter the factor by which your international shipping is more than your domestic shipping. Example: If you want the international shipping to be the double of your domestic shipping, then enter 2 in international per ounce price.
  3. In your product configuration (while adding or editing a product), in the weight field, enter the amount which you want to charge for shipping. So if you wanted to charge $5 shipping for a product, you will enter 5 in here and the final domestic shipping will be 5 x domestic price per ounce (which you entered as 1) = $5.
   
• CASE B: Say you want the first unit to be charged $7 shipping, and the rest add $5 each
  1. Follow the steps for CASE A.
  2. Go to E-junkie Admin > Cart shipping settings.
  3. Enter $2 ($7-$5=$2) as cost of packaging type you are using. Set it's weight to 0
  4. In your product configuration, set the packaging type you defined in the above step.
  5. Enter a very high number in packaging capacity like 10000. Basically, after this number of units $2 packaging charge will kick in again. So if you want to charge $7 for not only the first unit but also for the 11th, 21st, 31st unit and so on, then change the packaging capacity to 10.
   
• CASE C: Say you want to charge $5 for upto 10 units of your products, so if someone orders between 1-10 units, they get charged $5 and if they order between 11 - 20 units, they get charged $20 and so on.
  1. Go to E-junkie Admin > Cart shipping settings.
  2. Enter 0 in per ounce price for domestic and international.
  3. Enter $5 as cost of packaging type you are using. Set it's weight to 0.
  4. In your product configuration, set the packaging type you defined in the above step.
  5. Set product weight to 0 and packaging capacity to 10. After this number of units $5 packaging charge will kick in again.

If you want to use order amount based shipping

If you want your shipping cost to be based on a table like this:

1. Go to Admin > Cart Shipping Settings.
2. Set the handling price to the maximum shipping cost in your table ($20 in our example)
3. Go to Admin > Cart discounts
4. Set the shipping discounts without any discount code and enter the minimum order total and discount percentage as required by your shipping table:
   
   Example:

• Create a 80% ($4 is 20% of $20) discount for orders with minimum order total of $1
• Create a 75% ($5 is 25% of $20) discount for orders with minimum order total of $11
• Create a 50% ($10 is 50% of $20) discount for orders with minimum order total of $21
• Create a 0% ($20 is 100% of $20) discount for orders with minimum order total of $101
  
  

Even though last discount is 0%, it is still required as each discount sets the barriers for your shipping table.

If you want to use Free Shipping

• If you want to make shipping to free for everyone, just set the product weight to 0 in product configuration. Make sure your handling cost, packaging weight and cost are all 0 as well in Admin > Cart shipping settings
• If you want to make shipping free for domestic buyers only:
  
  
  • If you are U.S. merchant, then in Admin > Cart shipping settings, set the domestic custom price per ounce to -1.
  • If you are an international merchant, then in Admin > Cart shipping settings, set the domestic custom price per ounce to 0.
• If you want to make shipping free for PICKUP orders only, you can create a 100% shipping discount with discount code PICKUP in Admin > Cart Discounts with the minimum order amount of 0. Then you can instruct buyers to enter PICKUP in discount code field for pickup orders.
• If you want to make shipping free for orders above a certain amount, you can create a 100% shipping discount with blank discount code in Admin > Cart Discounts with the minimum order amount you want and the discount will kick in automatically for those orders.

Note:

If you want sell your product only to certain countries, you can select the destination countries you want to serve in Seller Admin > Cart Shipping Settings.