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Shopify Shipment Setup.md

Description:

  1. Setup Shopify Store and focus on store settings for online store only.
  2. Specifically focus on Checkout, Markets, Zones, Shipment, tax details etc.
  3. We are only using Shopify API for checkout and order fulfilment and not the whole store. Meaning, customers will only see our custom coded website and will only see the Shopify checkout UI during checking out.

Things to ignore:

  1. Ignore Product details: I have setup the product information correctly. No need to ask further question. We have 1 product with the correct variations and price.
  2. Ignore Shop theme and design: We do not need that as we are only using Shopify API to connect to our own custom coded web shop. WE ARE NOT USING SHOPIFY STORE FRONT END.
  3. We do not need shop pay.
  4. Ignore Billing Settings
  5. Ignore Users and Permissions settings
  6. Ignore Payments settings.
  7. Ignore Checkout settings.
  8. Ignore Customer Accounts. As we do not want to store customer info and do not want a login experience. We have that in our website to which Shopify is connected.
  9. Ignore domain settings, as we do it ourselves to specifically meet our conditions.
  10. Ignore Brand Settings.
  11. Ignore Langage Settings.
  12. Do not remove any Apps or sales channels. If you need to add any app, let me know what is the reason and I will add them.

What have we already done:

  1. Setup product details. It is what it is and nothing to add more.
  2. Setup drop shipping app from our drop shipping handler company in Guangdong China for order fulfilment.
  3. We have setup locations: We have setup drop shipping pick up address (Which is in Guangdong China). You will see it in “Locations”.
  4. We have setup payouts (for receiving payments) and attached it to our bank.
  5. We have also attached our Paypal
  6. We have a theme for the store but this is not our focus (as mentioned before)
  7. We have setup Billing Settings
  8. We have setup Users and Permissions settings
  9. We have setup Payments settings.
  10. We have setup Checkout settings.
  11. We have setup Languages, Brand details, Purchase receipt design etc.

What you need to do (Your scope):

  • Review Pickup location: Sometimes it gives warnings saying the address is not formatted correctly. The address that we have from our drop shipping company is mentioned below.
  • You need to set Shipping and Delivery. There is no Local delivery, hence they are disabled. Do not enable. Set up shipping Rates (I do not know the diff between general and custom, I guess we need custom) here. See below information from our drop shipping partner on this. Also, to do this section, you would need to Add Rates -> Zones.
  • And now, within Zones, you need to now setup markets. We want to ship globally (All the countries available in Shopify). Our intent is that the individual spays the extra shipping cost. So for shipping, use costs of DHL and FEDEX and UPS.
  • Our company is registered in Hong Kong, so not sure if we need to consider tax. If so, you need to do this too. Make sure sure that the customers pay for the import tax too (import tax calculator in Shopify)?
  • Review Policies

Few other information that our drop-shipping company gave us are as follows:

  1. Contact person: Xiao Guolin. Tel: 13412561576. English Address: 6th Floor, Haorong Zhichuang Technology Building, East 1st Street, Xingfa South Road, Wusha Community, Chang'an Town, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province (Elevator 1/2). Chinese Address: 广东省东莞市长安镇，乌沙社区兴发南路东一街，豪荣智创科技大厦6楼（1/2号电梯）
  2. The shipping cost varies from country to country, especially for countries that need to pay VAT. You would need the specific weight and volume of the product, as well as the country you need to transport it to. When the store has orders, we can arrange shipment.
  3. Your product has a very high value (with a cost price exceeding 300USD) so cannot be arranged through DDP channels. Only DHL/FEDEX express delivery can be arranged, as they are in DDU mode and require insurance (if no insurance is purchased, DHL can only compensate up to 100 USD per package). Shipping cost: DHL 72USD 5-9DAYS. FEDEX 68USD 6-10DAYS

Few other information you would need (I guess):

  1. Product details for shipping (as mentioned above): WIP as we are finishing up product packaging now, so do not have the info in hand right now in terms of exact weight, size etc. For now for testing, use 25 gm as weight and 15cmx15cmx5cm as the dimension.
  2. Let me know what else do you need.

Our engagement Governance

  1. Please note that I'm not a Shopify expert and hence we are here.
  2. Please read this document, try to understabnd the ask and ask questions before hand.
  3. Raise questions you still need to know or topics that are unclear. If I know I will try to answer.
  4. As an expert I excpet that you know when I add you as a staff, which settings you need to be enabl;ed to make the necessary changes. Please tell me exactly.
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