how to offer limited time free shipping shopify

one of the questions that i get asked,all the time,is should you do free shipping for your,shopify store,and if so how to set it up so that's,exactly what i'm going to be covering in,today's,quick tips shopify video,so one of my most watched videos on,youtube as well as most requested topics,is always about shipping because,if you do it wrong it can end up costing,you a lot of money,and a lot of times people want to know,should they offer free shipping for,their shopify store,if you go to any online e-commerce,provider you'll see that,everyone seems to be doing free shipping,so it's kind of becoming a little bit,more industry standard,especially with options like amazon,prime where they have,free two-day shipping it's kind of,becoming where customers are kind of,expecting it but should you do it for,your store,and the true answer here is that it,really depends it depends on your profit,margins,and your products if you have really,heavy products that cost a lot to ship,then it's probably not going to be worth,it for you or if you have very slim,profit margins then it may just cost,too much so you really want to think,specifically,about your products as well as where a,lot of your consumers are purchasing,from,if you are let's say on the,east coast in north carolina and a lot,of the people that are buying your,products are on the west coast in,california that's going to cost a lot,more to ship,from coast to coast where if a lot of,your people are more purchasing,locally then it's going to be a little,bit cheaper overall,so i really recommend if you've already,been accepting orders online that you,look at where,a lot of your average locations are as,well as your average shipping cost and,you figure out then if that's,doable for you in your price range or,maybe you even include the shipping and,the price,so that way you are covering your cost a,little bit,a tip that i have for if you do decide,to do free shipping,is to make sure that you're getting them,to spend just a little bit more to get,it,so for example i would do free shipping,over a certain dollar amount,so if a lot of your products are let's,say 25 dollars each,you may want to do free shipping for,orders of 50,or more that means that they would have,to get two products to actually get the,free shipping,so then you're getting a little bit more,profit before actually eating some of,that shipping cost,or you may want to have some kind of,smaller upsell product so let's say your,products are normally,forty dollars and you can do an upsell,smaller product of ten dollars to then,try and get them to that fifty dollar,mark so that they get the free shipping,then,again you really just wanna think about,your profit margins and make sure that,it makes sense for you,and that you're not going to end up,actually losing money on every order,just because you are offering the free,shipping amount,so in terms of how to set up free,shipping for your shopify store this is,actually really easy,but a lot of times it can be a little,bit confusing for people,so let's hop in my computer screen now,i'm going to show you exactly how to set,this up,first you're going to go to the settings,area in your shopify backend,and then click on shipping and here,you'll see at the top,different areas about different shipping,rates you're going to click on,manage rates and you're going to add in,your rate there,so this is going to be where you're,actually shipping it out to in terms of,like the continental us,and you can add in a condition there on,the order price,so this is where you would set up the,condition of free shipping,over fifty dollars and so anything over,fifty dollars gets the free shipping,option so you can go in and add,different,different shipping rates there as well,as add flat rate shipping rate prices as,well so if it's under,fifty dollars you can do a flat rate fee,of,seven dollars or whatever it is that,makes sense for your business,also i really do recommend to probably,not do free shipping for international,orders,and to make sure that you're still,charging for international shipping,because that's where it can get really,really pricey so until you feel,really comfortable with adding in free,shipping and you're,used to doing this and seeing that it's,not ending up costing you more money,i wouldn't turn on free shipping for,international orders,just because it can be a lot more,complex and typically cost a lot more,so i hope you found this video tutorial,helpful we've got more shopify quick tip,videos like this coming out every single,tuesday you can view the whole playlist,of quick tip videos over here,and if you haven't yet make sure to,subscribe i post videos every week all,about shopify and how to grow your,online store,thanks so much for watching and i'll see,you in the next one

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