WooCommerce has emerged as a platform where any person can set up his or her online business. It provides to select freight services for their respective product.
UPS Freight Shipping
The idea behind UPS Freight services is to bear those charges if the delivery is through freight.
The best thing about UPS Freight is that the shipping can be delivered through any mode of transportation. Air, water and truck freight is available for these services.
Live Scenario…
Sam is the owner of an Online Autom-made parts across the Mexican border. But the issue with Sam is that the products that he ships cover a wide range.
From a small product such as turbochargers and intercoolers, weighing around 30 lbs to ship everything via UPS shipping services.
He wanted don’t cover the weight limits for UPS Freight i.e. 150 lbs.
Before going deep intomers without any hassle.
Freight Shiping using WooCommerce UPS Shipping plugin
By default, WooCommerce UPS Shipping plugin provides the following Freight Shipping services:
- Freight LTL
- Standard LTL
- Freight LTL – Guaranteed
- Freight LTL – Guaranteed A.M
- Worldwide Express Freight
Now let’s discuss these services in detail.
Freight LTL
LTL stands for less-than-truckload. The sto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam.
Freight LTL Guaranteed
This UPS Shipping service lets you know when the shipment will arrive on a certain day. It provides on-time delivery to direct points in the US and Canada, guaranteed.
This shipment is available when the shipping is done with a contract or a special pricing other than the current UPS Freight Tariff.
Freight LTL Guaranteed A.M.
The UPS Freight shipping provides guaranteed daytime- definite by noon for all direct points. But this shipping service is limited ton DC.
But if under any circumstances, UPS Freight fails tomer’s request.
Standard LTL
The UPS Freight shipping provides Standart LTL shipping for all the sto deliver between the 48 states of the US and Mexico.
The Standard LTL offers door delivery between 3-9 business days based on the source and destination.
Worldwide Express Freight
This is the best option if you are looking for a fast freight delivery across the globe. Worldwide Express Freight, as the name suggests, delivers across more than 60 countries from more than 65 countries in the world.
One of the biggest benefits of this service is its guaranteed delivery by the end of the day. But this guarantee varies continent to three business day delivery across Asia.
Optimize WooCommerce UPS Shipping plugin based on Weight Classes
Sam’s issue can be easily solved using WooCommerce UPS Shipping plugin. All Sam needs is a shipping class that will contain all the products with weight less than the freight limit, 150 lbs.
The following screenshots will show you how to configure product and shipping class whose name will be Small Products:
After configuring the shipping class, add products to this shipping class.
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This shipping class, Small Products, have certain products that weigh less than 150 lbs.
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For reference let’s check out what happened in Sam’s scenario after making all these changes.
Earlier, when Sam’s custo see the following screenshot:
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UPS Freight Shipping for heavy product
As you can see, the Freight Services are available for this product based on its weight.
But as soon as the customers select a product under the above-mentioned Shipping Class- Small Products, it shows both the standard as well as freight shipping options. Here is an attached screenshot:
But after adding the code snippet, Sam’s custo see different UPS Shipping services based on weight and the shipping class that they are a part of.
Take a look at below screenshot. Like earlier, it shows a product with valid Freight Services enabled.
But for the product shown below, being in the Shipping Class, only standard services are enabled for this product.
So this was all about the UPS Freight shipping services and how you can custo the product weights for accommodating the UPS Freight Services.
If you have any queries regarding custo us or share your views in the comment section below.