How much flexibility do I have for calculating shipping costs with PDG Software?
With thousands of merchants utilizing our software, many of whom have been running their PDG enabled stores for over 9 years, we realize that accurate shipping estimates are extremely important in converting ecommerce sales. An inflated or inaccurate shipping estimate can quickly lead to a user abandoning the purchasing process and searching for another provider. As a result, PDG has put a tremendous amount of development time towards providing one of the most flexible and configurable shipping interfaces available within any ecommerce solution. Merchants may choose to use any combination of tools that include real time rates for UPS and USPS, custom tables that charged based on weight, quantity, or subtotal of products purchased, additional “per item” shipping costs, discounts based on users exceeding a certain threshold or users belonging to a certain customer group, and merchant defined handling fees. For merchants shipping with UPS, the software also includes functionality that all
