Infigo Academy: Easypost Rates
Overview
Our Easypost plugin supports the ability for Easypost to control the services and the shipping rates that you display to your customers as part of the checkout flow.
The rates that are returned are calculated based on many factors:
- The items being ordered and thus the parcel sizes and number of parcels required to fulfill the shipping requirements (see our configuration article to understand the different options available)
- The originating address of where you are producing the parcels and the carrier will be collecting them from
- The shipping address of where the parcel is being shipped to. This is taken from the shipping address information entered by the customer during the checkout process.
- The negotiated rates that you have configured against your carrier accounts that you have linked to in your Easypost account.
How To
In order to enable Easypost to handle returning services and rates for your storefront you need to enable it like you would any other Delivery Computation Method in Catfish.
Either search 'Computation' in the admin menu search bar or navigate to Configuration > Delivery > Delivery Computation (will be shipping instead of delivery for our US customers).
Click Edit next to the Easypost option and then enable the 'Is active' checkbox and click 'Update'.
If you don't want Easypost to control the services shown and the rates applied, but still want to use it to generate shipping labels, then you can have a look at our two articles on using Infigo Delivery Methods with Easypost and Shipments.
Selecting which rate to offer
Within our Easypost plugin we provide you with the option to choose which rates you offer to your end customers. Within the General settings section of the plugin there is a setting called 'Rate Type' and here you can choose between 'Rate', 'Retail Rate' and 'List Rate'.
- Rate - This is the actual quote rate for this service on that specific carrier account. Usually includes any discounts or pre-arranged negotiated rates.
- Retail Rate - The retail rate is the in-store rate given when no account is used
- List Rate - This list rate is the non-negotiated rate given when you have an account with the carrier
This allows you to control which rate you want to offer to your end users and, knowing the rates that you will pay the carrier allows you to determine how much profit you want to make on the service.
Filtering Services
We have introduced the ability for you to decide, from all the services Easypost supports for each of your linked carriers, which services you want to be made available in your Infigo storefront.
Navigate to the Easypost plugin, and then scroll down until you find the section 'Carriers and Services'
This will be, by default, pre-populated depending on the carriers you have setup and mapped in your Easypost account. From the 'select carrier' dropdown, choose the carrier you want to focus on and then the services table below it will populate with all the available services that can be offered to your customers (obviously depending on parcel size, weight, shipping address etc).
Clicking on 'Edit' for a given service will display your service configuration popup.
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Enabled for checkout: allows you to decide if this service should be shown to the end customer during the checkout process with the Easypost live rate. (This is also determined if you have Easypost live rates enabled or not)
Enabled for MIS: this determines whether or not you want to allow mapping of an Infigo shipping method to this service. It will not be shown to the customer in the front end.
Friendly Name: Allows you to customise the name of the service that is shown to the end customer
Additional Classes: If you wish to control the styling of each service you can add a custom CSS class name here and it will appended in the DOM, allowing you to control specific styling to specific services.
Order: This is the display order this service will appear in in the checkout.
Additional Shipping Fee type, Additional Shipping Fee Per Parcel, Additional Shipping Fee Per Order: As per the storefront wide setting, we allow for you to add an uplift to the returned rate from Easypost. These settings allow you to control this on a service by service basis. If the uplift will be a fixed amount increase or percentage, an amount that should be applied at a parcel level and an amount that should be applied at an order level.
Service specific options: This should only really be used with advice and support from our Customer Support team.
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