Shipping Cost Settings is where you configure how TrueProfit calculates shipping fees for your products and orders, including choosing a calculation method (by quantity or by weight), setting a default shipping cost for new products, and defining custom shipping zones for specific regions or countries.
Since shipping cost is a direct expense that feeds into your profit calculations, configuring this correctly ensures your profit and margin numbers stay accurate. If you pick the wrong calculation method or set things up inconsistently, shipping costs across all your products and orders will be off, and your profit reports will be off too.
That's why it's worth understanding these settings before entering shipping costs for individual products in the main view.
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Calculation method
Quantity-based (Per item)
Use this if your supplier charges shipping by the number of items.
Example supplier table:
Quantity | US |
1 pcs | $10 |
2 pcs | $15 |
3 pcs | $20 |
You will enter it exactly the same way (shipping cost by quantity):
Quantity | Total cost |
1 unit | USD 10 |
2 units | USD 15 |
3 units | USD 20 |
Note: This rule applies when calculating shipping for one product with multiple quantities. If an order contains multiple different products, see Create product group section to understand how shipping is calculated.
Weight-based
Choose this method if your supplier charges shipping based on product weight.
Example supplier table:
Weight range (lb) | Cost |
0.83 kg | $13.5 |
0.94 kg | $14.9 |
You will enter the shipping cost by weight range:
Important note
Changing the calculation method will reset existing shipping costs to 0 for all products and orders, and all existing data will be lost.
After switching, your shipping costs for all products & orders will follow the new method.
2. Initial shipping cost
This sets the initial shipping cost for newly created products, to avoid new products having shipping cost = 0.
Note
New products will use the new initial shipping cost after you update it here.
Existing products keep their current shipping cost.
If you want to change shipping cost for existing products, update them in the main view (not here).
3. Custom shipping zones
In the main view:
Default means worldwide shipping (all countries).
If no custom shipping zones are added, all countries use Default (Worldwide).
If you add custom shipping zones with different shipping costs (example: France in Europe, and Singapore):
Those zones use the specific values you set
The rest of the world uses Default (Worldwide)
Notes
When you add a new shipping zone here, it will appear in the main view as a column.
When you delete a shipping zone here, it will be removed from the main view.
How to add a custom shipping zone (in Settings)
Click Add shipping zone
Name the zone
Click > to expand the region and select specific countries
Click Save
After making changes in Settings, click Save to apply them.
