We’ve just released some new shipping improvements that we think will really help out. These new features are a direct result of the great feedback we received from our recent shipping survey, so a huge thanks to everyone who participated.

So what’s new?

True International Shipping

You can now charge different shipping rates per country and be as specific or general as you’d like. Add a bunch of countries and give different rates to each, charge everyone the same amount, use your PayPal shipping settings, whatever. It’s up to you.

If you do have country specific shipping, your customers will see a simple drop down on the cart page to select the country it will be shipped to. No more “This will be shipped inside blah blah” checkbox!

True Combined Shipping

PayPal has long supported a form of combined shipping where you could charge one shipping amount for the first item and a different amount for each additional item. The problem was it only worked when you were buying multiple of the same item. That sucked… so we fixed it.

Just like before, you enter one shipping amount for when the product is being shipped alone and a second amount for when it’s being shipped with other products. The difference is now this will be applied across all the products in the cart. We simply find the product with the highest first amount and then use the second amount for all other products ordered. Much better.

Save and Load Defaults

We don’t want your poor lil’ hands going numb from entering shipping and size options for each product. So now you can save defaults! Just enter the options you like once and click Save as default.

Then when you add a new product, those options will be there waiting for you. Want to add your defaults to an existing product? Fine! Just click the Load default link and here they come.

Check out Products 101 for more dirt.