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Tiered by destination is only available to Parcelify Checkout (a.k.a. CCS-enabled) customers.

Tiered by destination

Tiered by destination is a shipping Price based on where an order ships to and how much it weighs, costs, or the number of items in the cart.

The best place to implement a tiered-by-destination price is when you have many different shipping regions and shipping prices all related to one another by some increasing product amount. This approach to shipping is commonly called a rate card.

A sample rate card matrix that lists a series of shipping zones along the top, increasing weights along the left, and the appropriate shipping amount for each combination in the body of the diagram

Getting started

Before you start clicking through the UI, decide two things:

  1. How your ranges are defined. Tiered by destination is available under all three “How to charge” modes:
    • Weight based: ranges are weight breakpoints (e.g. 0 – 50kg)
    • Price based: ranges are order cost breakpoints (e.g. $0 – $50)
    • Item based: ranges are quantity breakpoints (e.g. 0 – 10,000 items)
  2. How your destinations are matched. Under Destinations, you can match on:
    • Zip / Postal code is: use this when your list has full postal codes
    • Zip / Postal code starts with: use this when your list has postal code prefixes
    • City is / City starts with
    • UK Postcode Area is / UK Outward Code is

You can enter more than one value per tier as a comma-separated list. For example, a single tier can cover several postal code prefixes at once.

Create a Price from scratch

  1. Under Applies to, change this Price from Flat rate to Products
  2. Under Price: How to charge, select the mode you decided on above — Weight based, Price based, or Item based. The remaining steps are identical regardless of which one you pick; only the field units change

  3. A new set of radio buttons appears. Select Tiered by destination

    Pictured is the Price section of a Products Price. Applies to is set to Products. Under How to charge, the dropdown reads Weight based, and below it three radio options appear: Per kilogram, Tiered prices, and Tiered by destination — with Tiered by destination selected

  4. Under Destinations, choose how postal codes should be evaluated. (see Getting started for the full list of options)

  5. Two fields appear: Destination (the postal codes for this tier) and a range field labeled with your chosen units, e.g. 0 - 100 items (the price for that destination within that range)

    Pictured are the tier's input fields: an empty Destination text field, followed by two empty range fields labeled 0 - 100 kg and 100.01 - 500 kg. Below them is a blue Add row link

  6. Enter your first zone’s postal codes into Destination
  7. Enter the shipping price for that zone into the range field
  8. Click (+) Add row

  9. The postal codes and price you entered appear in the table above these fields

    Pictured is the tier table after adding three zones. Columns are Destinations, 0 - 100, and 100.01 - 500. Rows read: 789, 101, 1112 at $50 and $75; 12345, 90210 at $100 and $125; and 45670, 90000 at $230 and $255. Each row has a trash-can icon and a pencil icon on the left

  10. Repeat steps 5–8 for each remaining destination you would like to add

  11. Every new Price starts with one generic placeholder tier. Delete it by clicking the trash-can icon next to it

    Pictured is the tier table with the cursor hovering over the trash-can icon on the first row (789, 101, 1112, priced at $50 and $75), ready to delete that row

  12. Click [Done] at the bottom of the Price
  13. Scroll to the top and click [Save]. This runs validation on the Price and commits your changes

Edit an existing tier

To change the postal codes or price on a tier you’ve already added, without deleting and re-creating the row:

  1. Click the pencil icon directly to the left of the tier to open it for editing

    Pictured is a tier row in the tier table, showing a Destinations value of 789, 101, 1112 with prices of $50 for the 0-100 range and $75 for the 100.01-500 range. To the left of the row are a trash-can icon and a pencil icon; the cursor points at the pencil icon, which opens the row for editing

  2. Update the Destination value and/or the price for each range as needed
  3. Click (✔) Done to commit the change to that row (While editing, the tier’s (+) Add row control relabels to (✔) Done)

Important: This row-level (✔) Done is not the same button as the Price’s [Done] button. Confirming a tier’s edit here does not save the Price — you still need to click the Price’s [Done] button when you’re finished editing every tier, then [Save] the rate.

Edit ranges

Ranges are shared across every tier in the Price. adding a range adds a new price field to every destination row, while removing one removes it from every row.

  1. Click the blue “Edit Ranges” link to open the range editor

    Pictured is the Edit price tiers modal. Two rows list Start weight (kg) and End weight (kg) values: 0 to 100, and 100.01 to 500. Each row has a red minus icon on the right to remove it. Below the rows is a blue Add tier link, and a black Done button in the bottom right closes the modal

  2. Click the blue “Add tier” link to add a new range, then enter its start and end values — or adjust an existing range’s boundaries directly in the modal
  3. Click the red minus icon next to a range to remove it
  4. Click [Done] to close the range editor and return to the Price

Example

Say you run a fishing and hiking shop based in Quebec. Shipping across the rest of the country is a flat rate, but inside Quebec you want a rate card with three zones, each priced by how many items are in the order:

City of Montreal (postal codes starting with H)

  • 1–5 items: $5
  • 6–20 items: $10
  • 21+ items: $15

Northwest Quebec (postal codes starting with J)

  • 1–5 items: $9
  • 6–20 items: $14
  • 21+ items: $19

Northeast Quebec (postal codes starting with G)

  • 1–5 items: $7
  • 6–20 items: $12
  • 21+ items: $17

You already know your postal code prefixes, so under Destinations you pick Zip / Postal code starts with. Under Price: How to charge you pick Item based, then Tiered by destination.

You open the range editor (see Edit ranges) and define three item-count ranges: 1–5, 6–20, and 21–999. Then you add your three tiers, one per postal code prefix, entering the matching price into each range’s field:

Destination 1–5 items 6–20 items 21+ items
H $5 $10 $15
J $9 $14 $19
G $7 $12 $17

Pictured is the completed tier table matching the worked example. Columns are Destinations, 1 - 5, 6 - 20, and 21 - 999. Rows read: H at $5, $10, $15; J at $9, $14, $19; and G at $7, $12, $17. A blue Edit Ranges link appears above the table

Once every tier and range is entered, delete the generic placeholder tier, click [Done] on the Price, and [Save] the rate.