• How rates work for mixed carts

  How rates work if the cart contains items from different product groups If a customer cart contains items belonging from more than one product group, the expected behavior for these rates is to be added together and give you a combined price. The specific behavior is described below: 1- If rates have the same name among product groups, the app will preserve the rate name, and its final price for the rate will correspond to the sum of all matching rates. Example: ![](https://storage.crisp.cFew readers

• Product Groups

  Create collections of products and set specific rates that apply only to those products. A Product Group is a set of product variants that you want to have special shipping rates for. || Example || Acme Inc. ships some products that are fragile and can only be sent via courier. They set up a Product Group called “Fragile Items” that has all the items that require courier shipping. || They then create rates for their “Fragile items” groups and also for the “GeneralFew readers

• Create a Product Group

  Learn how to create a Product Group and assign products and variants to the group. If you are using app-based Product Groups you can create as many Product Groups as you need and assign to them whichever products you need specific rates for. First click on “Product Groups” in the main menu. If this is your first time using Product Groups and you do not have any shipping profiles on Shopify then you will see a screen that explains that app-based Product Groups areFew readers

• How Product Group rates are calculated

  Learn how rates are calculated when using Product Groups and tips and advice on the best way to set up your rates. Postcode Shipping follows a similar approach to Shopify when calculating rates across Product Groups. Understanding this approach will help greatly when creating rates so we recommend reading this guide before getting started. If you are in a hurry though try to remember these two key points when setting up your rates: Rate titles matter Try toFew readers

• Product group types

  There are two types of Product Group that you can work with in Postcode Shipping. These are app-based and Shopify-based Product Groups. The type of Product Groups you use will be determined by how you have currently set up shipping in Shopify. | ⓘ We strongly recommend you use app-based Product Groups if possible. Shopify sends carrier apps like Postcode Shipping multiple shipping requests (one per profile) that makes calculations or rules based on the whole cFew readers

• Importing Shopify-based Product Groups

  Learn how to set up Product Groups that are based on your Shopify shipping profiles. If you are already using shipping profiles in Shopify to create groups of products with different rates, you can import information from Shopify about these profiles and use them as the basis of your Product Groups in Postcode Shipping. || Shipping Profiles on Shopify are useful for stores with complex shipping needs or multiple fulfilment locations. || However if the only reasonFew readers

• Assigning Rates to Product Groups

  Learn how to create and manage Rates for specific Product Groups. Having set up Product Groups in Postcode Shipping you need to set up rates that should apply when a customer has an item that is assigned to one of your Product Group in their cart. || When setting up Rates for your Product Groups we strongly recommend setting the status of your Product Groups to ‘inactive’. || Whilst a Product Group is inactive, you can still assign rates to it within Postcode Shipping but customersFew readers

• Enable Product Groups

  The Product Groups feature is not enabled by default - you need to toggle the feature on in order to set rates for specific groups of products. To enable Product Groups, click on Settings in the main menu. On the following screen you will see the option to toggle Product Groups on or off: Click 'enable' to toggle the feature on - you will see a confirmation pop up to confirmFew readers

• Edit a Product Group

  Learn how to edit an existing Product Group to change its title, status or the products that are assigned to it. To edit a Product Group simply select the group that you wish to edit from the Product Groups page. Make any changes you need to the Product Group title or status. You can also add or remove product variants from this group. Click Save Product Group at the top right of the screen Editing the Product Group title will not affect any of the rates tFew readers

• How to avoid combining rate prices from different groups

  How to avoid combining rate prices from different groups? If you want to 'avoid' combining rates prices from different groups, you'll first need to evaluate what’s the price ‘goal’ on different cart combinations. Example of a 2-group setup: General Group only =$X Product Group #2 only =$X General Group + Product Group #2 =$X Single product group cart Let's focus on carts with products from a single product group. General Group only =$X Product Group #2 only =$X Then setFew readers

• Deleting a Product Group

  To delete a Product Group simply select the group that you wish to delete from the Product Groups page. Click delete (just under the Product Group name) near the top of the screen. You will be asked to confirm if you wish to delete the Product Group and if you choose to proceed your Product Group will be deleted. | ⓘ You cannot delete Shopify-based Product Groups - only those defined in the Postcode Shipping. To delete a Shopify-based Product Group you should delete it in ShopifyFew readers

• Product Group Rate Behaviour

  Product Group Rate Behaviour When a customer's cart contains products from multiple product groups, you can control how shipping rates are calculated and displayed at checkout. Note that this feature is only available when using app-based product groups. Configuration Navigate to Regions > Edit Region > Product Group Rate Behaviour to select your preferred calculation method. Available Options Sum (Default) What it does: Adds together the lowest rate from each producFew readers

• Rule-based product groups

  Create dynamic product groups that automatically include products with certain attributes. Rule-based product groups automatically include products based on criteria you define, such as weight, price, title, SKU, or vendor name. Instead of manually selecting each product, you create rules that determine which products belong to the group. When to Use Rule-Based Groups Use rule-based groups when you: Have a large catalogue with many products Want products tFew readers