Let your customers choose the Shipping Method they prefer may improve their shopping experience and encourage them to purchase again from your Sales Channels. ShippyPro Ship & Collect is the perfect tool to increase your ecommerce conversions! Showing our drop–off point map offers your customers much more flexibility.
Summary:
1. Before your start
"Ship & Collect" is an additional module by ShippyPro that allows your customer to autonomously choose the best Carrier rate and a potential Drop Off Point by choosing it from the available map.
Please, be aware that this module might require some effort on your part as the setup process is not automatic.
Moreover, remember that this tool is only available for a specific number of Marketplaces and Carriers, visit the list in this article or check out the Comparison Map:
2. Benefits of using Ship & Collect
Integrating drop–off points (PUDO and lockers) into the checkout process via module or API will help you:
Reduce storage costs: With nearly a 100% first delivery attempt, you erase extra costs applied by Carriers for on–hold shipments.
Save on integration costs: The IT Team won't need to integrate the pickup service APIs for each Carrier separately.
Increase the conversion rate: Offering 24/7 availability, proximity to the workplace, and storage time up to 5+ days. All these benefits reduce shopping cart abandonment rates.
If applied to the return process, it means more convenient return labels and, once again, increased flexibility for your customers.
3. How Ship & Collect works
Ship & Collect gives you the opportunity to show the nearest drop–off points for your Carriers. In order for it to work, all prices (as seen in the contract) have to be inserted by visiting Connection > Carriers > Edit Prices.
It will not be possible to configure dynamic pricing for the service.
Example: free shipping over a certain expense
For Shopify Plus & Advanced plans
Ship & Collect will display the Carriers connected on ShippyPro: based on the name and the service connected there will be displayed Carriers prices accordingly. Some carriers (like DHL Express, UPS, FedEx, and TNT Express) automatically send your negotiated rates to ShippyPro after the connection. You can find the whole list of Carriers with this feature here by clicking on Live Rating.
Why should I use Ship & Collect?
Increase in conversions rate: reduce Cart Abandonment Rate and offer your customers the possibility to choose the delivery option that suits their needs the best.
Reduce your shipping cost: Carriers usually apply a discount if you ship to a drop–off point and there are no extra costs for undeliverable parcels.
How does Ship & Collect work?
You can decide to customize your map with colors, distances and carriers of your choice.
You can embed it directly to your website by inserting a few strings of code inside your webpage.
Pay per Load module monthly fee is based on how many times your customers load your map at checkout.
4. List of Carriers and Marketplaces
Are my Carriers supported?
You can find the whole list of Carriers here by clicking on 'Drop–Off API' feature.
Here is the list of all the supported carriers and their relative drop–off points:
BRT API: FermoPoint
Colis Privé: Point Relais
Colissimo: Point Retrait
Correos: Citypaq
Correos Express
Chronopost: Points Relais Pickup
Chronopost Portugal: DPD PT Pickup
DHL EXPRESS: DHL Service Point
DHL Parcel: DHL Service Point
FedEx: Ship Centrer
InPost: Locker Inpost 24
Mondial Relay: Point Relais
MRW: Point Corner / Point Office
Nexive: Nexive inZona
Poste Italiane: Rete Punto Poste
Relais Colis: Point Relais Colis
San Marino Mail: Drop Off Points
Seur: Pickup Points
TNT Italy: TNT Point
UPS: Access Point
Find the updated list here: Comparison Map
Are my Marketplaces supported?
The official CMS now available for Ship & Collect are the following:
5. Troubleshooting & Errors
Is access point information transferred from the Marketplace, or does ShippyPro retrieve it from Carrier's online interface?
If you're using our Check Out Module we'll save the Access Point ID into order details, then we create the label linked to that access point without other actions.
Shopify: Automatic setup, the Shopify map will be displayed by the customer only after the payment.
Prestashop: Module creation required, development effort needed.
Magento: Module creation required, development effort needed.
WooCommerce: Module creation required, development effort needed.
Storeden: Module creation required, development effort needed
How can I display a specific service of my Carrier at Checkout?
Shopify gives you the possibility to set specific Carrier services to display during Checkout.
As a first thing, have you already taken a look at our Shopify Module setup guide?
Once you correctly connected your Carriers, simply access Setting up shipping rates section on Shopify and add there your preferences.
How does Ship & Collect pricing work?
You can include Live Rates at checkout and a Drop Off Point Map with the nearest pickup locations of one or more carriers with separate pricing.From the side menù "Ship & Collect", access the pricing page to find out more about how the Ship & Collect pricing is calculated.
To add more loads to your Account go to Ship & Collect > Pricing and Usage and drag the cursor to the amount needed, yes, it is as simple as that!