If you want to use your UPS settings to handle your shipping you can easily override the Flying Cart shipping settings and use them. Here is how you can setup PayPal to use your UPS settings.
1.Login to your PayPal account and click on “Profile” -> “More Options”
2. Click on”Shipping Preferences”
3. Click on “Add new or existing UPS account”
1. Login to your store Headquarters and navigate to Store -> Shipping
2. Determine if you are going to charge based on weight or price and click the save icon. If you choose weight you will need to add weight values to each product. In this example we will choose price (weight works the exact same way).
3. Pick a shipping location and click the “+” icon to add it. This is what your shipping values will be for that location. In this example I picked “United States”.
4. Enter in what shipping rates you would like to apply per price range and click the save icon button. For example if you want to charge $5 shipping if the total cost of the purchase is between $0 – $20 then the range would be from $0-$20 and the rate would be $5.00.
5. Enter in the next shipping range and click the “+” button. In this example I want to charge $8.00 shipping if the total cart value is between $20.01 – $100.00.
6. Keep adding shipping ranges just like in step #5 until you are satisfied. If the shipping amount exceeds any shipping range that you haven’t specified then by default the highest range amount will be applied. For example in the example above if a customer has a total of $150.00 then an $8.00 shipping charge will apply.
7. Select another country to specify shipping ranges to and click the “+” button. In this example I’m going to pick Italy.
8. Repeat steps #4 and #5 for the new location
9. If you want to ship to any location pick the location “Everywhere”. The “Everywhere” location will be applied to any location you haven’t specified. For example if your specify shipping ranges for United States, Italy, and Everywhere and a customer checkouts out from India then the “Everywhere” shipping range will be applied. If the customer checks out from United States the United States shipping ranges will apply.
Angela of Little Bow Peep asked me
“I had someone email me and say they placed an order for several things and never received any of it yet. What should I do if I know an order hasn’t been placed? What should I do if the person demands their products but never paid for any of it?”
That is a great question. Also challenging. The customer obviously wants your product so you don’t want to turn them away.
Here is what I would do:
1) Be certain that you didn’t get the money. Triple check in your Flying Cart order section. Check all your PayPal and Google Checkout records.
2) Apologize and ask the customer for proof of the order. An electronic receipt or amount charged on their credit card would do.
3) Call them up and talk to them over the phone. If the still are making demands with no proof ask them to order something else and you will ship the other items at cost.
What would you do? All ideas/comments welcome.
1. Go to Store -> Settings.
2. Scroll down to the currency section and pick the currency that you charge in.
3. Click on “Update Settings” at the bottom of the page to save your changes.
Kim of Savannah Gourmet Market asked me “How do I add links within a product description”.
1. Go to the product that you want to edit.
2. Click on “Edit”
2. Highlight the text you want to link
3. Click on the link button
4. Enter in the link address and hit “Insert”
You uploaded an image and now you want to remove it. Follow these steps to delete it.
1. Login to your store HQ.
2. Go to Products -> Browse
3. Click on the product with the image you want to delete
4. Scroll down to the image section and click on the Red “X” underneath the image you want to delete.
Google Analytics is a great tool that allows you to get detailed statistics on who has visited your site. These directions explain how to sign up for a Google Analytics account and set it up to work with your Flying Cart store.
