Set up carrier preferences

PrestaShop allows you to define your carrier preferences to best frame the parameters of your deliveries. Follow the guide!

To access it: Delivery > Preferences

The delivery preferences interface is presented as follows:

How to set up handling?

Handling costs (not to be confused with shipping costs) are the costs associated with picking up parcels, packaging them and shipping them. The handling section allows you to define the following elements:

• Handling costs: enter the handling costs per order before tax, which will be added to the total price of the order. If your handling costs are zero, enter €0.
• Free delivery from: These two boxes allow you to specify a price or weight from which customers will benefit from free delivery, from a certain amount or a certain weight, depending on your preferences. These two fields are optional.

How to set up carrier options?

Carrier options are used to define a default carrier on your store, but also to define which carriers will appear first on your site.

• Default carrier: Indicate the carrier that you want to be offered to your customers as a priority. This box contains several options:
  • Best price: to give priority to the cheapest carriers. Attention: if you offer in-store pickup, this option will be considered the cheapest and will therefore be offered as a priority by PrestaShop.
  • Best grade: to give priority to the fastest carriers thanks to the carrier ratings.
  • MyCarrier: this option should not be selected if your store is online. Indeed, MyCarrier is the default carrier example for PrestaShop and should not be used in production as it was designed solely to serve as an example. The same applies to "PrestaShop" which also appears in the list.
• Sort: to define the order in which carriers are presented to customers when they place an order. You can choose to sort the list either by shipping costs or by their position in your list of carriers.
• Sort by: to indicate the order in which carriers are sorted. You have the choice between "Ascending" and "Descending".

Thus, if the settings are set to "Price" and "Descending", then the carriers will be displayed from the most expensive to the least expensive. Similarly, if the settings are set to "Position" and "Ascending", then the carriers will be displayed from the one appearing at the bottom of the list of carriers offered to the customer, to the one appearing in the first position.

Click on "Save" to put your carrier preferences online!