Shipping & Packaging for Online Shops: Dimensional Weight, Zone Rate Cards, Box Selection, Surcharges & Carrier Mix
Cut what every parcel costs: billable weight, zone rate cards, the right box, surcharges and the best carrier per shipment, with every cell checked as you go.
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About this course
In this course you work through the parcels of a fictional online home-goods shop. You turn box sizes into dimensional weight and billable weight with MAX and CEILING, read rates from a zone and weight-band rate card with INDEX/MATCH, and build a fit matrix that picks the smallest box with padding. You price packaging from bulk packs per order profile, add residential, remote-area and fuel surcharges, compare a flat fee, pass-through and free shipping above a threshold across basket sizes, route parcels between two carriers with an on-time rule and finish with a shipping dashboard, a trend chart and a target flag.
Lessons
- Actual vs Dimensional Weight: Billable Weight per Parcel Pro
- Zone Rate Cards: Price by Zone and Weight Band Pro
- Box Selection: Smallest Fitting Box and Dim-Weight Savings Pro
- Packaging Cost per Order: Box, Filler, Tape, Label & Insert Pro
- Surcharges: Residential, Remote Area & Fuel → All-in Cost per Parcel Pro
- Shipping-Charge Strategy: Flat Fee, Pass-Through or Free Above a Threshold Pro
- Carrier Mix: Cheapest Carrier per Parcel, On-Time Trade-Off & Routing Savings Pro
- Shipping Dashboard: Cost % of Revenue, Cost per Parcel by Zone and the Trend Pro