Shipping and Categories

Overview

Shipping in Foxy is configured in two places that work together:

• Store level (the Shipping settings page in your admin) is where you define what shipping options are available to your store. This is where you enable carriers like USPS, UPS, and FedEx, configure package defaults, set up a custom shipping endpoint, and enable options like free shipping or customer pickup.

• Category level (each category's settings) is where you choose which shipping approach applies to products in that category and configure category specific options like flat rates and handling fees.

These two levels are connected. For example, setting a category's delivery type to "live rates" only works if you've enabled at least one carrier in your store level shipping settings. The store level defines what's available; the category level applies it to your products.

Delivery options per category

Each category's delivery type determines how its shipping is calculated. The available options are:

• Shipped using live rates — uses your store's configured carriers (USPS, UPS, FedEx, and your Custom Shipping Code or Endpoint rates)

• Shipped using a flat rate — a fixed amount applied once for that category

• No shipping — no shipping cost is added.

• Picked up by the customer — no shipping cost is added.

• Downloaded by the customer — no shipping cost is added this is downloadable products hosted in Foxy.

How rates combine

A single cart can contain products from multiple categories, each with its own shipping configuration. When this happens, Foxy combines all applicable shipping costs into the options presented at checkout.

Consider a store with four product categories:

• Two categories set to use live shipping rates

• One category set to flat rate shipping

• One category set to no shipping

If a customer has products from all four categories in their cart, the checkout will present all of the returned live rates, each combined with the flat rate fee from the third category. The "no shipping" category contributes nothing to the total.

This combining behavior applies across all shipping types. Flat rates, handling fees, and live carrier rates are all added together. Regardless of how many categories are in the cart or what shipping types they use, everything gets combined into a single set of options at checkout.