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Predicted Order Shipping Cost


Overview

Sellercloud offers advanced shipping cost calculation capabilities that can calculate shipping costs for each order based on the origin, destination, and weight. 

The estimated shipping cost serves as a placeholder value, so you can keep track of the P&L for unshipped orders.

Prerequisites

To predict the shipping cost of an order, you will need to configure Shipping Package Types and Product Shipping Preferences for your SKUs.

Shipping cost can be predicted only on unshipped orders.

Estimated Shipping Cost

Sellercloud can automatically calculate an estimated shipping cost for products. This process occurs overnight, which allows the estimate to be applied immediately when orders arrive during the day.

The estimated shipping cost on orders containing Kit Products is calculated based on the kit parent rather than the individual components. The system uses the actual shipping costs of past orders to calculate the shipping cost estimation.

To view the estimated shipping cost, navigate to Orders > Manage Orders > Open an order > Toolbox > Shipping. The Shipping Details Panel will display the estimated shipping cost.

Before the order is shipped the P&L panel will only display an estimated profit. Once you ship the order and you have the actual shipping cost, the field will show the actual profit. 

Exclude Channels from Order Shipping Cost Prediction

The Estimated Shipping Cost calculation is applied to all channels by default. However, you are able to exclude selected channels from this calculation on the company level: 

  1. Navigate to Settings > Company > Manage Companies.
  2. Open a Company > Toolbox.
  3. Predict Order Shipping Cost Exclusion > Click Edit.
  4. Choose which channels to exclude > Click Save.
Any channels that have Require Third Party Shipping enabled in the Company General Settings, will be automatically excluded from the Shipping Cost Prediction, and their checkbox on the page will not be editable.

Overview

Sellercloud offers advanced shipping cost calculation capabilities that can calculate shipping costs for each order based on the origin, destination, and weight. 

The estimated shipping cost serves as a placeholder value, so you can keep track of the P&L for unshipped orders.

Prerequisites

To predict the shipping cost of an order, you will need to configure Shipping Package Types and Product Shipping Preferences for your SKUs.

Client setting Predict shipping cost of an order must be enabled for this workflow. To enable the setting, navigate to Settings > Client Settings.
Shipping cost can be predicted only on unshipped orders.

Estimated Shipping Cost

Sellercloud can automatically calculate an estimated shipping cost for products. This process occurs overnight, which allows the estimate to be applied immediately when orders arrive during the day.

The estimated shipping cost on orders containing Kit Products is calculated based on the kit parent rather than the individual components. The system uses the actual shipping costs of past orders to calculate the shipping cost estimation.

To view the estimated shipping cost, navigate to Orders > Manage Orders > Open an order > Toolbox > Shipping. The Shipping Details Panel will display the estimated shipping cost.

Before the order is shipped the P&L panel will only display an estimated profit. Once you ship the order and you have the actual shipping cost, the field will show the actual profit. 

Exclude Channels from Order Shipping Cost Prediction

The Estimated Shipping Cost calculation is applied to all channels by default. However, you are able to exclude selected channels from this calculation on the company level: 

  1. Navigate to Settings > Company Settings.
  2. Open a Company > Toolbox > Predict Order Shipping Cost Exclusion.
  3. Choose which channels to exclude > Click Save.
Any channels that have Require Third Party Shipping enabled in the Company General Settings, will be automatically excluded from the Shipping Cost Prediction, and their checkbox on the page will not be editable.

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