if you're selling physical products
you've got to ship them and with
woocommerce that all begins with
shipping zones the process in theory
works like this think of shipping zones
as a container for your rules and rates
you first create a shipping Zone then
add methods to those zones like USPS
flat rate or FedEx and lastly you can
finally create rates with those methods
so let's dig in and build one ourselves
first make sure that shipping is set up
appropriately for your store in the
general tab of the woocommerce settings
shipping will be enable as long as you
haven't selected the disabled shipping
and shipping calculation setting the
other shipping choices we hope are
self-explanatory but feel free to check
out our documentation and video on the
general settings to learn more let's now
focus on shipping zones head into the
shipping Tab and we start on the
shipping zone submenu for this video
Let's assume you'll at least have two
zones for selling to different countries
zip codes or States we'll set one for
shipping in your stores country and
you'll notice by default there is
already one for the rest of the world
now once you get the hang of this you
can create as many zones as you need and
add as many methods and rates to that
zone as you require let's set up free
shipping for your stores based country
to walk you through the Zone process
start by giving the Zone a name like USA
for example then select the regions for
this Zone in our case we'll only add the
United States start typing the name of
the country and you'll be able to find
it easier note you can limit it to
specific states by typing the name of
that state order specific post codes by
selecting the limit to specific zip SL
post codes link below the region text
field add one post code per line if you
have a long list or you can use wild
cards and ranges for these for example a
wild card would be cb23 asterisk that
catches any post code that begins with
cb23 and for ranges you could add 90210
do do do
990000 to catch all postcodes in that
range we can now add shipping methods to
our zone for the US select the add
shipping method button to get started
you'll then have a pop-up window where
you can choose a method you want to add
ucommerce itself comes with three
shipping methods and if you have any
shipping extensions you'll see them in
this drop down the ones included in
woocommerce are flat rate free shipping
and local pickup hopefully they are
pretty self-explanatory but let's
briefly explain them anyway flat rate is
a fixed rate you charge to that zone it
does have a few placeholders that allow
for some mathematical rates for example
calculate charges based on the quantity
of items in the cart or charge 10% of
the total order cost for shipping free
shipping is free shipping everyone loves
it it doesn't charge for shipping and
can be triggered with a coupon a minimum
order amount or both you may consider
using this as a sales tactic where
shipping might be built into to the cost
of the product finally local pickup
gives customers the option to pick up
their orders from your store this also
has an optional cost if you feel it is
needed if you want to learn more about
one of these methods we have
further documentation and videos that
cover each one check those out if needed
and as always thanks for watching
in