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Packing Method

yi-FLS edited this page Nov 11, 2016 · 1 revision

Packing Method

Packaging is important for shipping rate consideration. As a merchant, you may decide to put sold products into one or many packaging boxes.

FlagShip for WooCommerce offers 2 major types of packing method:

  • Weight driven packing

Regardless of length, width, and height, this method only accounts for box split weight for each of the packaging box. By default, the cut-off weight is set to 20lbs. You may change this value anytime. This is also the default packing method.

  • FlagShip Packing

This method allows to pack your products smartly, given a set of predefined packaging box dimension. It will automatically find the optimal solution for the packing. (i.e. use as less as possible boxes) On the other hand, merchant needs to provide the dimension of their packaging boxes to be shipped with.

If FlagShip Packing were enabled and none of the packaging boxes were suitable for the products, the plugin will fallback to use weight driven packing. Thus, it is recommended to set up weight driven packing's box split weight even though FlagShip Packing is the primary packing method.