Collective Retailers Can Now Fetch Live Shipping Rates from Suppliers at Checkout!

Good news for collective retailers! shopify has just released a new, streamlined shipping profile for carriers that makes it even easier to manage your shipping rates. Now, with this upgrade, you can pull your supplier's shipping rates directly into your customer's order at checkout, without the extra steps.

Suppliers can choose between two options: flat shipping rates or calculated shipping rates. Flat rates are great, but calculated rates really take things to the next level by using specific rules that the supplier has set up to figure out your shipping cost in real-time. For example, a supplier may offer "free shipping on orders over" that you can pass to your customers to encourage bigger orders and reduce those frustrating abandoned carts.

The best part? You stay in total control of what your customers will see at checkout. You can customize shipping rates with custom profiles or offer free shipping as a discount to sweeten the deal.