By default, SalesCart comes with extensive customizable fixed shipping tables. These tables allow you to define shipping charges based on ranges (weight, price or volume) relative to location.  However, you must customize those shipping price ranges by hand against whatever method or mode of how you wish to ship.  The advantages of the fixed shipping rate tables concept is that it is a principal that can be simpler to install and configure and it is the method most shopping carts you typically visit will employ.  On the other hand, if you want your shipping to more closely match what your actual shipping charges, or want more complicated carrier based shipping, or want to offer you customers the same shipping rates that the carriers can provide, the shipping service plugin is the better choice for you.

Give your customers any mixture of multiple postage shipping rates from the major shipping providers.  Let them decide from the multiple carriers you provide which they prefer.  IYour customer will be presented with the ability to choose from all of the different shipping methods you have activated. Once the customer selects the shipping method matching their budget and service requirements, the price of the shipping method will be computed and saved to your SalesCart database with their order. 

• More Shipping choices:  United Parcel Service, Federal Express corporation, United States Postal Service, and DHL
• Display competitive rates:  Display multiple shipping choices from different carriers on the same screen competitively and let your customers decide. 
• Automatic Rate Updates:  Get rate updates automatically throughout the service year - FREE!.
• International Shipping:  Provide international shipping rates for many carriers for shipments originating in the US.
• Mix Carrier base and Fixed Rate:  Mix Carrier rates but continue to offer customers a fixed rate shipping option as well if you wish.

Unlike the standard shopping cart software, the shipping service plugin is a NET yearly service.  It must be updated every 12 months to get access to the current, most-up-to-date rates.  We do this because we maintain the rate updates in a central location and can instantly update all users with the rates once we obtain them without you having to make any changes.