Integrate With Specific Shipping Carrier
As a Shift4Shop account holder, you have the ability to provide real-time shipping calculations through your online store. The shipping carriers supported by your Shift4Shop store include the following:
United States Postal Service (USPS)
United Parcel Service (UPS)
Federal Express (FedEx)
DHL
CanadaPost
To set up your shipping carrier service for real-time shipping calculation, please use the following:
Log into your Online Store Manager.
Go to Settings > Shipping and click on the Enter Settings button located under Carrier Settings.
Over on the right side of the page, select your desired shipping carrier and click on its Enter Credentials link.
Enter your credentials and click Save Settings.
Real Time Calculation
When you integrate your Shift4Shop store with a specific shipping carrier like USPS, your store will be able to connect to the carrier and calculate a relatively accurate shipping cost for your shoppers and their orders.
To explain how it works; when an order is placed, the store takes into account where the order will be shipped from (you or your drop shipper's location), where the order is going to (your shopper's address), and how much the order will weigh (all item weights summed). Shift4Shop's software then sends this information to the respective shipping carriers and requests a quote of the shipping rates for the order. Once the rates are received, they are added to the order's selection areas, and your shopper can select which method they'd like to have their shipment sent through. We refer to this as a real time shipping calculation.