Calculating Shipping Costs in your Webstore

Do you sell products on the web and have constant problems with the shipping cost calculation your website is doing? Shopping cart systems available have many shipping cost calculation options and can be quite complex, but very often they just do not fit. Consider some examples:

• Different groups of products require different methods of shipping cost calculation
• Different products require different carriers
• Prediction of the number and size of boxes is difficult
• Different carriers have different options and requirement that customers need to know about and decide on

A custom written solution is the answer. You can be sure that Amazon.com does not use an off-the-shelf shipping cost calculator. They obviously need something that integrates into their custom written site.

Constant Change

One fact you have to accept is that your website needs to evolve constantly. Nowhere is this more true than with the calculation of shipping costs. The shipping industry is now adapting to the needs to ecommerce and providing cost calculation servers that websites can talk to for rates. Taking advantage of these could be a key to your future web success.

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