Shipping, delivery and pickup

Delivery methods are the choices your shopper sees at the delivery step of checkout. Mirin supports three types, and you can offer any mix of them. Open E-commerce, then Settings, then Delivery Methods to manage them.

Each method has a name, a description, and an Active toggle labeled Show this method at checkout. You write the name and description yourself, and you can drag methods into any order. Checkout lists them in the same order. Turn a method off and it disappears from checkout right away, with no other setup lost.

A shipping zone is a group of places you ship to. It can hold whole countries, individual states, or both. A rate is one priced option inside a zone. Zones answer where the order is going. Rates answer what the shopper pays to get it there. Manage both under E-commerce, then Settings, then Shipping Zones.

Add a Rest of world zone as the catch all. Any address that does not match a named zone falls into it, so a shopper you never planned for still gets a real price instead of a dead end.

Every rate carries a name, a price, optional conditions such as a minimum or maximum order value or weight, an optional description, and its own active toggle. The toggle lets you pause a rate for a while without deleting it.

The description is the line shoppers see under the rate at checkout. Write whatever fits your store, like a delivery window or a handling note. Rates saved before descriptions existed keep showing their estimated delivery day range until you give them a description.

Every rate prices itself in one of four ways. Pick the type when you create the rate.

Flat rate

One price for every order in the zone, no matter what is in the cart. Simple and predictable. The wine shop charges $8.00 flat for standard shipping.

Price based

The price depends on the order total. Set conditions like orders under $75 pay $8.00 and orders of $75 or more ship free. This is how you build a free shipping threshold.

Weight based

The price depends on the total weight of the cart. Useful when a full case costs far more to ship than a single bottle. Each product carries its weight on its Shipping card.

Carrier calculated

The carrier quotes a live price for the exact address and package at checkout. Needs a connected carrier account, covered below.

Notice what the threshold does to the order itself. A shopper at $42.00 sees that one more bottle earns free shipping, and many will add it. The rate pays for itself in bigger carts.

Local delivery is for orders you bring to the door yourself. You define the area you cover in one of two ways. Set a radius in miles or kilometers around your location, or list the exact ZIP codes you serve. Shoppers with an address inside the area see the option at checkout. Everyone else simply never sees it.

With those three settings, an order under $50 pays the $5.00 delivery fee and an order of $50 or more gets free local delivery. That is exactly what the checkout line Free on orders over $50 within 10 miles promised in the first section. Prefer exact control over the map? Switch the area to a ZIP list and name every ZIP code you cover, nothing more.

Pickup lets shoppers buy online and collect in person. Add one or more pickup locations, each with an address and instructions. Shoppers see both at checkout, so write the instructions the way you would explain them at the counter.

Pickup orders skip tracking entirely. Instead of a shipping confirmation, the shopper gets a ready for pickup email when you mark the order ready, and the order confirmation tells them to watch for it. Both emails are covered in store emails.

Flat prices are a bet. Charge too little on a heavy case and you eat the difference. Charge too much and the cart gets abandoned. If your shipping costs swing a lot, connect a carrier account such as UPS and let the carrier quote each order live. Open E-commerce, then Settings, then Carrier Accounts.

Once the account is connected, add a rate with the Carrier calculated type to any zone. Shoppers in that zone see each enabled service with its live price, quoted for their exact address.

Checkout never shows every method and rate you have set up. It runs the same three checks on every order and lists only what qualifies.

Free shipping promotions land at this same step. A free shipping discount created in Discounts drops the shipping charge to zero when the cart qualifies, so the shopper still picks a delivery choice but pays nothing for it.