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Creating shipping zones

Creating shipping zones

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Creating shipping zones

- We're going to use a couple different ways to ship products. But, to do so effectively, we need to specify a couple different regions. We can use those regions as a cue, so that WooCommerce knows which shipping methods to use in which regions. In WooCommerce, this functionality is called Shipping Zones, and zones can be as big as a country, and as small as a city or zip code. A common way to use shipping zones it offer free pick-up, in addition to other options if you're in the same state or city, and you could have a shipping fee for the rest of the U.S., and then a different shipping fee worldwide. Let's go to the admin and create these shipping zones. Let's start by going to WooCommerce, Settings, and then Shipping. Here we can see our existing zones. We can see one for the country. And, a shipping zone for everything else. Let's click Add shipping zone. And, let's give it a name. I'm going to call mine Local. And, for a region, I could start with something like Colorado, where…

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