Apply shipping profiles to products (seller)

Shipping rules are enabled at the discretion of the marketplace operator. They might not be available in your marketplace. Reach out to your operator if you need assistance regarding the shipping functionality available in your marketplace.

Shipping rules let you provide buyers with shipping options that balance cost and speed by determining shipping costs for an order based on the delivery address and the line items (variants). A shipping rule links one or more shipping zones, shipping profiles and shipping rates. 

This topic discusses the generic support for configuring shipping rules through the seller portal. Shipping rules are queried, via the GraphQL API, by the operator. The business logic applied is marketplace specific. If shipping rules are available in your marketplace,

Setting a shipping profile on a product variant is optional in Marketplacer, but the marketplace operator may require this field to be set if they are using shipping rules.

You can set a shipping profile by manually editing each variant, by doing a bulk product upload, or by using the API.

Which seller portal am I using?

Two versions of the seller portal exist, differing in appearance and menu structure. The icon in the top right-hand corner of your seller portal will tell you which instructions you need: 

Legacy seller portal

Apply shipping profiles in the seller portal

1. Log into the seller portal.
2. Select My Adverts.
3. Find and edit the product.
4. For each variant.
1. Edit each variant 
2. Scroll until you find the profile drop down box and select the relevant profile for that variant. 
3. Select Save Variant. 
5. Save the product.

Apply shipping profiles using bulk upload

1. Log into the seller portal.
2. Select Bulk Product Upload.
3. Download All Existing Ads in Excel format. 
4. A shipping profile is assigned to a variant by ID, which can be found next to each profile under Shipping > Shipping Rules > View Shipping Profiles. 
5. Open the downloaded file and find the column containing Variant Shipping Profile ID. 
6. Enter in the ID for each variant in this column. 
7. Save the file and re-upload the spreadsheet. You may need to refresh the page.

Note: spreadsheet upload will only be successful if the products have been mapped into their appropriate categories. 

Seller portal 2.0

See: 

• Bulk update products
• Imports and exports using spreadsheets