Carrier Services Place checkmarks next to the Fedex and Purolator services you want displayed in your shopping cart at checkout. Selected services will be displayed only if the destination is included in a corresponding shipping zone and the service is offered to that zone. Check each provider’s service guide for a description of its services.
Delivery estimate options Don’t display delivery estimates
Choose this option if you don’t want the shipping rate estimates to convey information about the expected delivery date or timeframe.

Display estimated number of days

Choose this option if you want the shipping rate estimates to convey information about number of days the shipment will be in transit once it ships. This metric will not count weekends and holidays. Not available for the Average quote method.

Display estimated delivery date

Choose this option if you want the expected delivery day to be displayed with each service option. The shipment date will be the date of the order unless the settings for Order Cut Off Time or Shipment Offset Days are in use.

Display estimated delivery date range

These settings will display a delivery date range with each service option. The shipment date will be the date of the order unless the settings for Order Cut Off Time or Shipment Offset Days are in use. The beginning of the estimated delivery date range will be the shipping provider’s estimated delivery date. The end of the range will be the shipping provider’s estimated delivery date plus the number of days entered.

Delivery estimate range
Enter the number of days that the estimated delivery date range will include.

Display range as a from and to date

Enable this option if you want the estimated delivery date range to be expressed as a from and to date.

Display range as “on or before date”

Enable this option if you want the estimated delivery date to be expressed as expected on or before the end of the estimated delivery date range.

Cut off time & ship date offset These settings are only relevant if you have one of the options enabled to display a delivery estimate.

Order cut off time

When the app requests shipping quotes, it identifies a shipment date. The estimated delivery date is dependent on the ship date. The cut off time allows you to postpone an order’s shipment date by one workday. Orders received before the cut off time are quoted using the order date as the ship date. Orders received after the cut off time use the next workday as the ship date.

When left blank, the order date will be the ship date. Orders received on weekends will use the next workday as the ship date.

Fulfillment offset days

Enter the number of days to postpone the ship date. This setting is typically used by merchants who want to provide an estimated delivery date with the shipping quotes, but that have a lead time in the fulfillment process.

Example 1

If an order is received before the Order cut off time on the 5th of the month and the Fulfillment offset days is set to 2 days, then the ship date will be the 7th day of the month (assuming the 5th, 6th and 7th are all business days)

Example 2

If an order is received after the Order cut off time on the 5th of the month and the Fulfillment offset days is set to 2 days, then the ship date will be the 8th day of the month (assuming the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th are all business days).

What days do you ship orders?

Identify the days of the week on which you ship orders. The ship date used for the rate request will be modified accordingly, which may affect the expected delivery date.
Ground transit time restrictions This feature is commonly used by merchants who have perishable products and need to prevent Ground service from displaying as an option when the shipment transit time exceeds a certain number of days.

In the box provided, enter the maximum number days your products can be in transit. Leave blank to disable this feature.

Pick the option to Restrict by the carrier’s in transit days metric to apply the rule based on the carrier’s in transit days estimate. Carriers cite the in-transit days as business days. Choose this option if you will hold an order until a ship date occurs upon which the order can be shipped and not be delayed by weekends or holidays.

Pick the option to Restrict by the calendar days in transit if you want the determination of whether or not to display Ground service as an option to account for weekends and holidays. Choose this option if you always ship orders at the first opportunity to do so.
Hazardous material settings Enable the checkbox labeled Only quote ground service for hazardous material shipments if you only want ground service quoted in the event that one or more of the products in the shopping cart is identified as hazardous material. (Identifying that an items ships as hazardous material is done in the Product Settings.)

For the Ground hazardous material fee setting, enter the amount that should be added to the ground rate estimate in the event that one or more of the products in the shopping cart is identified as hazardous material. The fee will only be added once per shipment.

For the Air hazardous material fee setting, enter the amount that should be added to the ground rate estimate in the event that one or more of the products in the shopping cart is identified as hazardous material. The fee will only be added once per shipment.
Other settings:
Handling Fee / Markup		 Increases the amount of the quote by a specified amount prior to displaying it in the shopping cart. The number entered will be interpreted as dollars and cents unless it is followed by a % sign. For example, entering 5.00 will cause $5.00 to be added to the quote. Entering 5.00% will cause each quote to be multiplied by 1.05 (= 1 + 5%). Entering a negative number will decrease the quoted amount.
Quote Details Choose where you want to see the quote details. The quote details has information about what was included in the quote, such as residential or lift gate delivery. If more than one stocking location was used, each stocking location will be listed along with a list of the products that were quoted as shipping from it. The Additional Details widget is the default and preferred location because it’s visible on the Order Details page. However, if you use another app that also uses the Additional Details widget, you’ll find that the apps overwrite each other. In this case, choose the option to have the quote details written to a screen you can view from the More actions button.

Return to main Real Time Shipping Quotes User’s Guide to continue setting up the app.