Figuring Out Your Secondary Shipping
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One of the trickiest things for new sellers–now made super easy:
| 1. | Weigh one item in packaging, get the shipping cost. | $4.00 |
| 2. | Add the weight of another of the same item (and the packaging it needs) to the weight from step 1, get the shipping cost. | $6.25 |
| 3. | Subtract shipping cost of step 1 from the shipping cost of step 2 and you’ve got your secondary shipping cost. | 6.25 -4.00 2.25 |
| 4. | Your secondary shipping rate: (Don’t forget to add in costs for additional packaging if you include packaging costs in your shipping rates.) |
$2.25 |
It’s not a perfect science, but it should get you close.
3 Comments | Add your own
Thank you for this wonderful formula! Please forgive me I am so new to the shipping process. The only question I have is…. in step 2 “When you say add the weight of the SAME item” do you mean the item has to be a duplicate item of the one in step 1? If so, do you know of another formula for different weighted items? Any advice you can offer is greatly appreciated.
Anne–the trick to Etsy shipping is that the secondary rate is if that specific item is added to another package, so you get the extra cost for that item. When you list a different item with a different weight, you get the extra cost for that one, apply it the same. See this post for a more thorough explanation of how the secondary shipping works:
How Etsy’s “Secondary Shipping” works
http://www.gotogreatpanes.com/blog/2009/11/04/how-etsys-secondary-shipping-works
Thanks for this. I’ve been trying to figure out what to charge for secondary shipping. This is a huge help.
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