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Originally Posted by Adraco
I have alway opted for ease of use and making things easy to understand. If I expect a lot of first-and-only-one-time-customers, then I always go with flat fee shipping and set the flat fee so that it covers most scenarios. I might have one fee for Continental Europe, one for US, one for Asia, one for Australia and that usually covers most of my customers. A flat fee, or at least a ballpark figure will make more customers wanting to click on and proceed with checkout. Uncertainty of how much it's going to cost them, and tools hard to use, or lot's of fields to fill out usually don't help conversions.
Let the words ease of use and ease of understanding lead you. Just because a thing can be done, doesn't mean it needs to be done!
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totally agreed i plan on using flat price points and taking a small change off the top for "processing".
drawing people in with something as a "save $2 on shipping" i always find boosts up conversions. if there is a proposed deal people will take it just as that a deal.
and taking the extra couple dollars on top of a flat shipping charge is a good way to cover any packaging charges and more.
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Originally Posted by XPays
like folks said, the major shipping companies have api's to integrate. what is also interesting, is that they will negotiate with you/your client on shipping rates (based on volume) and that they also provide courtesy equipment in some cases
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im mini mini atm so we shall see, my landing pages have been dominating for affiliate work so i am moving into my own products.
great info from everyone.