First, you will need to determine your shipping rates and methods. For instance, decide whether your customers will bear the full shipping cost, or you’ll offer free or flat-rate shipping to reduce or cut costs. Also, decide how you intend to get the orders to your customers. Next, you’ll need to streamline how e-commerce orders are shipped; then, measure and update the weight of each product. Knowing shipment weight and cost will give you a good idea of how much you’ll spend overall, helping you charge your customers accurately.
The next step is choosing your preferred packaging, including padded (box) or unpadded (envelope) packaging. You’ll use box packaging for most businesses and products for safe packaging and shipping. Understand that packaging can influence the eventual shipping price. Finally, source your packaging from carriers, free or branded. If your store is hosted on Amazon, you can maximize the Fulfillment by Amazon program. If not, you can try 1fulfillment.com, which handles shipping and logistics for stores hosted on various marketplaces and stores. They offer order returns management, free storage and warehousing, repackaging and relabelling services.