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In your shop it is now possible to create fixed shipping costs per country or group of countries.
You can also indicate that shipping above a certain order amount to a certain country is free.
The advantage is that the shipping costs are immediately clear to the buyer, which increases the chance that they will order immediately. It also saves you work because you no longer have to enter the shipping costs manually every time after the order.

How does it work?

Go to My shop and choose the option Shipping costs:



Now you can create Zones where you make rows with a "from" and "to" order amount and how much the shipping costs will be, whether they are free or "On request" (if you can't estimate it well).

Example of a Zone with 1 country that a Dutch seller could create:




Example of a Multi-Country Zone where it is still "On Demand" up to a certain amount:



In the shop, the buyer will see a generated overview in the Shipping costs pop-up with the specific costs for the country where he or she is located as a buyer (and if we do not know where the buyer is located, he or she can choose a country):




And the corresponding amount of shipping costs is immediately indicated in the shopping cart:




Or is indicated as free, if applicable:



The shipping costs also change if items are removed from the shopping cart or if quantities of items with more stock are adjusted.

Sellers where you can pay via iDeal or PayPal will soon be able to choose that their buyers pay immediately when placing the order.
The number of payment methods will be expanded with Bancontact, Sofort, etc.

We see from our data that shops with free shipping above a certain order amount have a much higher average order value.
It really encourages people to make an order bigger so good to think about if you have a shop yourself.

An example of a very successful shop that already did this is "The Yellow Sign":




We clearly indicate if the shipping costs are free from a certain order amount to the country where the buyer is located, to encourage buyers to add more to the shopping cart.

On the shop pages:




On the shopping cart page:



On the order page:



It is also important that we continue to show a shipping text as in the example of The Yellow Sign above, which has already been entered in Shop settings.
So you have to make sure that you edit or remove that text when you make changes to your shipping zones.

Just try how it works. Of course, for the amounts to be chosen for shipping costs, it also makes a big difference whether you sell books or stamps, for example.

We are very curious about your feedback and don't hesitate to report it if something is still not working properly.










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Apparently you can only set a fixed price, not per weight class?!
As a private individual it is not of much use to me, but it can be useful for professional sellers.

I do see an option to "abusing" the system to exclude countries I really don't want to ship to.
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Apparently you can only set a fixed price, not per weight class?!

No, because we don't know the weight of the items a buyer puts in his shopping cart, do we? stripspeldjes   
A few exceptions where we have this field in the catalog, maybe bar it.
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As a private individual it is not of much use to me, but it can be useful for professional sellers.

I don't understand this by the way. If larger sellers such as Het Geleteken or Tistjen-Dop can successfully use fixed shipping costs up to a certain amount and make it free above that, then in principle individuals can do that too, right? You can then see it as a discount that you give for large purchases. It is of course not mandatory, but you can consider it both as a private person and as a professional seller. You sell more (also because buyers know immediately where they stand) and you no longer have to fill in the shipping costs afterwards.
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There are no fixed costs, I send as a letterbox package for €4.60 or a standard package for €7.25, all based on the weight and thickness of the stack. Nothing is certain and I will not normally ask for €9 if it can go through the letterbox.
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Morits , Of course that's fine. You could also consider combining the on-demand shipping costs with a threshold above which you give them away as a discount (shops that already did this in their shipping text have a much higher average order value). For example:




If a seller has set such a threshold, above which there are no shipping costs, we will show it even more prominently in the shop to encourage buyers a little more to buy.
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My shipping costs are different for every order (just like with Morits), depending on the weight and size. I also only give discounts in mutual consultation, there is no standard for that.
Everything is "on request", just like before, which means that this new system offers no advantages for me.
Great for shops that want to standardize their shipping, but I won't use it.

(P.S. The title of this thread suggested you could set all shipping costs, which you can't. Hence my disappointment.)
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stripspeldjes , Of course that's fine. It is just not the case that there is no standard for it to be determined. In any case, many successful sellers already did. See, for example, De Striep (9,210 reviews).







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(P.S. The title of this thread suggested you could set all shipping costs, which you can't. Hence my disappointment.)

I made it "fixed" shipping costs in the title. That might be a better fit indeed.

V.w.b. the disappointment: so you actually wanted to make a scale based on weight? We just can't "calculate" with that in the shop because we don't know the weights, so that could only be used to show in the shipping pop-up, right? Do you see a lot of added value in that above the textual description that you can also enter yourself   stripspeldjes ? Or do you mean something else?
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No, you cannot automatically process variable shipping costs.
The "disappointment" was more because I thought you had come up with a brilliant solution for that ;-)

I was happy with the possibilities, so I don't sell much either.
I am curious about the new payment options. Hopefully without much additional costs.
(On MP you pay 40 cents extra service costs with an iDeal payment request. If I buy a pin of one euro it is relatively expensive, just for the "convenience".)
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No, you cannot automatically process variable shipping costs.
The "disappointment" was more because I thought you had come up with a brilliant solution for that ;-)

Aha, no unfortunately, we haven't succeeded yet :-) stripspeldjes 
I think it would only be possible if all items in the catalog had a properly filled-in weight field...

I am curious about the new payment options. Hopefully without much additional cost.

We are in talks with a good payment provider. More on that later. It always costs something, but does not have to be very expensive.
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As long as it is possible and allowed, I use my own conditions and shipping rates. Regular customers, they are the best, know that I give (unsolicited) discounts for some nice amounts and my shipping rates are clear. As Morits rightly states: weight and whether something fits through the letterbox certainly makes a difference. To be honest, I think it has gone too far that Lastdodo keeps track of what I sell. I do indeed see it as the only one, but I did not ask for it and was already wondering what the purpose of this was. It's great that advice and examples from shops that apparently score well because they ship for free as standard, but that's comparing apples to oranges. A total price for a buyer is based on price item + shipping costs + quality (in case something is used is 2nd hand) and certainly sell in numbers what he/she has for current items in the shop. I may well be too old-fashioned for this now complex LastDodo. Sorry in advance for having some reservations. It's really all beautiful how each addition looks. But doesn't it sometimes go a bit far?
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Rene Beautifully done, I just don't see any gram value to gram value or from 0 to 20 gram= shipping costs 1.55
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No, this is only about fixed shipping costs based on the amount of the order so that we can immediately show the shipping costs for the buyer and (as a next step) let buyers pay immediately if desired. If you always want to calculate exactly the actual shipping costs, you could consider making shipping costs above a certain amount free. We see a much higher average order value at shops that do this, so that pays for itself.
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As long as it is possible and allowed, I use my own conditions and shipping rates.

Yeah, that's allowed Harry56 


 To be honest, I think it has gone too far that Lastdodo keeps track of what I sell.

Orders are kept in a database from the start of this platform. That's nothing new. Otherwise, as a buyer or seller, you would not have an overview of the orders anywhere and they would have disappeared immediately.
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Rene , about tracking and saving orders that's right, as far as I know everything is saved, including messages, forum posts. That is also the case at Catawiki. So for you as designers I understand that a nice statistic has been built, which could be useful to a salesperson in the relevant year. That it's overdone for me, it doesn't have to be for someone else. Perhaps I am a bit averse to everything that is kept in our society. It is a given that only authorized persons from LD can enter my LD personal environment, but that is part of the platform. It's a kind of feeling, on the other hand everyone knows what I have, after all I have my shop and my collection is also visible. And whether I sell "a lot" or little in numbers can also be seen more or less by the number of feedbacks. I've checked if I see anything in the shipping option now, but not yet.
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Fine Harry56 

Perhaps I am a bit averse to everything that is kept in our society.

I just thought you were a collector...  :-)
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Rene What a fantastic addition! We are very happy with it, and our hearts beat with anticipation about what's to come.....

By the way, I'm a big fan of the statistics. I would like more ;-) Or a possibility for more extensive exports of sold items, so that I can use the pivot tables myself. And in the standard export of the store a column with the date of entry. I love data, that's for sure.
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Rene Haha, I'm just trying to get rid of what I've kept all these years ...., collector WAS that's a good wording. Although I sometimes buy some ... And nice to read that there are lovers of as many statistics as possible such as sandern1  .

Just a question outside this topic: does LastDodo as an internet platform now also have to deal with retention periods? Many years ago I once asked questions to the national government, consumer association about laws and regulations for internet companies, specific platform such as Catawiki. However, it was still in its infancy at the time. Was more my interest, because it had little to do with my private passion for collecting.
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I would like to have the option to tick 'see description' in the first category (eg, from 0-50 euros). Then you will be referred to my standard text in which I specify the costs for letterbox post / parcels. 'On request' looks like an extra threshold.
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 What a fantastic addition! We are very happy with it, and our hearts beat with anticipation about what's to come.....

By the way, I'm a big fan of the statistics. I would like more ;-) Or a possibility for more extensive exports of sold items, so that I can use the pivot tables myself. And in the standard export of the store a column with the date of entry. I love data, that's for sure.

Thank you for your enthusiastic response sandernr1 

An advantage of shipping costs calculated when ordering is that the buyer could also pay immediately if you want to give him / her that option as a seller. That will be a next step in the future. Including offering more payment options (now only iDeal and PayPal).

We are now also working on the exports. with regard to The statistics are still a lot possible, but we will continue with that at a later stage. There is still so much to do and improve :-)


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Just a question outside this topic: does LastDodo as an internet platform now also have to deal with retention periods?

I think, just like any company, we have to keep our administration for a long time (I think 7 years) Harry56 
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I would like to have the option to tick 'see description' in the first category (eg, from 0-50 euros). Then you will be referred to my standard text in which I specify the costs for letterbox post / parcels. 'On request' looks like an extra threshold.

sucazel , The idea was actually that the text you entered in shop settings remains visible to the buyer when he / she views the shipping costs. There seems to be something going wrong. It is indeed important that there is an explanation for those situations where the shipping costs are not fixed. I will come back to this later.
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Rene: It is indeed a pity that the personal and clear shipping texts have disappeared and that people from countries outside the EU (with all those annoying customs forms and customs risks) that I do not want to ship to can now also order again. In case the lack will cause problems or irritations for buyers (buyers say nothing on request), I will close the shop for a while in the hope that the text can be repaired.
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