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Setting International Shipping with the Batch Editor
You can use the batch editor to set different shipping rates to one or more international locales. To show how this works, let's say that we wanted to setup our item to ship to Mexico for $3, to everywhere else in North and South America for $5, and to Europe at a price we'll specify in the item description. Here's how you would do it:
- Visit the batch editor shipping options through clicking "My Bonanzle" -> "Batch edit items" -> "Shipping"
- Click the radio button for "Add flat-rate international..." Click the checkbox for "N & S America" and enter "5" in the cost field. Pick the item(s) it applies to from the list of items. Click submit.
- Click the radio button for "Add flat-rate international..." Click the checkbox for "Mexico" and enter "3" in the cost field. Pick the item(s) it applies to from the list of items. Click submit.
- Click the radio button for "Add flat-rate international..." Click the checkbox for "Europe" and leave the cost field blank. Pick the item(s) it applies to from the list of items. Click submit.
After you're done, your item should look something like this:
A couple notes are on order about what just happened. Firstly, the order in which you set up your international shipping zones doesn't matter. You could have setup Europe, then Mexico, then N & S America and have gotten the same results.
A second note is that, when zones overlap (i.e., you set a rate for "Mexico" and "N & S America," which includes Mexico), the best match shipping zone will be used (i.e., if they're from Mexico, it costs $3, if they're from anywhere else in North or South America, it will cost $5), so it's OK to overlap.
Oh, and the "Description" box is currently unused, but someday it will presumably give the buyer more information about the shipping choice they picked.
Another probably obvious point is that if you want to set the price for a bunch of different zones at once, you can pick the checkboxes for all zones you want to set and have them get applied in one fell swoop.
When you look at your item's page after applying your international shipping choices, it will still look as it did before setting up international shipping. But if you were logged in from a different country (or if you weren't logged in but your IP address suggested you were from another country), we would show you the shipping rate that had been set for your country. Also, once the item is put into a buyer's cart, we use the shipping rate you specified after the buyer has told us what country the item will ship to.