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Understand shipping needs

Understand shipping needs

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Understand shipping needs

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- Shipping is one of those areas where you can do it very cheaply or it can be very expensive. So if you are working with a client with this smaller budget you can start with something simple and follow up with something more advanced. Now if the client is going to use either free shipping or flat rate shipping this won't take much time at all. Flat rate shipping is where the customer pays a flat rate per order or per item. So it might be $20 shipped anywhere in the US and $30 worldwide. This might take just a few minutes for someone who is experienced with their Ecommerce platform or if your not familiar it could take a hour or two. Most Ecommerce platforms offer all sorts of options that make flat rate shipping one of the easiest to set up. Now if your client is going to use live rates from USPS, UPS, FedEx or some other shipping company there is a bit more complexity and it's a common pitfall for Ecommerce stores to offer all of these options. That's actually something I never…

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