How to Set Shipping Rules and Restrictions for E-commerce: Popular Use Cases Solved

Problem
Let's say you own an online bicycle store on the Magento e-commerce platform. You sell bicycles and large or small accessories compatible with the bicycles. You want to offer free shipping for orders from the Small Accessories category only. How do you customize free shipping in the Magento store for this particular case?

Solution
With Calcurates you can customize free shipping based on the product category. You may set one specific category or a few of them as well. Free Shipping will be available for orders that contain only Small Accessories from the small product categories of your Magento store.

Problem
Increase your shipping rate for orders with a total weight of more than three pounds, priced more than $75 when three or more items are added to the cart.

Solution
First of all, you will need to set a shipping segment that includes our composite condition for the cart:

1. Order weight is more than three pounds;
2. Subtotal with tax is more than $75;
3. More than three items in the cart.

Problem
When customers buy products from specific categories you want to offer a 20% discount on shipping.

Solution
Start with a Shipping Segment for your Rule: choose categories (e.g. Pants or Shorts) that will discount a shipping rate. Use the "selection" control to define that a segment works when ANY (not ALL) of the products in the cart match the selected categories. See, that was easy.

Problem
You want to restrict shipping of particular products to some countries or regions (e.g. distant states like Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico).

Solution
Create the Shipping Segment for your Shipping Rule. Step 2, select certain conditions, choose the shipping area that you want to restrict or surcharge shipping for, and add product attributes such as certain categories, price, weight, SKUs, etc.