How to create a shipping method

Sunshine Photo Cart lets you create unlimited number of shipping methods for your client photo galleries in several different formats:

• Flat rate - Charge a single price regardless of what is ordered
• Local delivery - You will deliver photos to customers personally with options to restrict to specific zip/postal codes
• Free - No cost delivery with option to be enabled by discount code only
• Pickup - Customers will pick up their order from a location you specify. Pickup can be added more than once if you have multiple pickup locations, with each instance carrying its own name, price, taxable setting, and customer-facing location details

If you sell digital downloads and the customer order only has digital downloads, all shipping options are hidden from selection since they are not necessary.

How to Create a New Shipping Method

• In your WordPress admin, go to Sunshine > Settings > Delivery & Shipping
• Select a shipping method from the drop down and click the "Add shipping method" button
• Click the "Configure" button and set a custom name, description, taxable status, and price

Flat Rate Shipping Options

Flat rate shipping is pretty straightforward with options for a custom name, description and price. This price will be charged regardless of what items are in the order.

See Flat rate shipping method for the full setup walkthrough.

Local Delivery Options

Many photographers work with local customers and want to hand deliver their prints. This option allows the same name, description and price options but also includes an additional option to only allow this option to specific zip or postal codes. This limits the areas you are willing to offer local delivery that is not too far away.

See Local delivery shipping method for the full setup walkthrough.

Free Shipping Options

Instead of a Flat Rate shipping method with no price, the Free shipping method has an extra feature that makes it unique: the ability for it to be applied only by a discount code and requires the Discounts add-on.

See Free shipping method for the full setup walkthrough.

Pickup Options

Pickup is a shipping method like Flat Rate or Local Delivery, with one extra capability: you can add it more than once. Each pickup instance is its own shipping method with its own price, name, description, and taxable setting, so a studio with two pickup locations can offer both as separate options at checkout.

Each pickup instance also has a Pickup Location Details field for the address, hours, and any instructions you want the customer to see. Those details follow the order from checkout through to the receipt emails and printable invoice.

See Pickup shipping method for the full setup walkthrough.

Extra Shipping Costs

If you have larger products, such as canvases, you can include an additional, transparent cost to all shipping methods by adding an "Extra shipping cost" fee for the product.

Advanced Shipping Options

Sunshine Photo Cart also has an Advanced Shipping add-on which allows for additional options to further define when specific shipping methods are available to your customers that allow you do create more complex shipping situations. For example, you can setup free shipping for orders over a certain amount or many other advanced customizations.