{"id":1108,"date":"2020-10-05T16:12:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T21:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shipbob.com\/au\/blog\/bigcommerce-shipping\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T19:06:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:06:49","slug":"bigcommerce-shipping","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.shipbob.com\/au\/blog\/bigcommerce-shipping\/","title":{"rendered":"A Guide to BigCommerce Shipping: Options, Integrations, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Table of Contents<\/p>

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Why fulfilment and shipping is important for ecommerce<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your BigCommerce shipping options<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to set up shipping on BigCommerce<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top BigCommerce shipping apps and integrations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why using a BigCommerce 3PL company for shipping is worth it<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ShipBob: The #1 BigCommerce 3PL company fulfilment solution<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ShipBob is trusted by leading BigCommerce stores<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BigCommerce shipping FAQs<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Key Takeaways<\/h2><\/span><\/div>
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BigCommerce provides ecommerce businesses with customisable options to set up various shipping methods, enhancing customer satisfaction and reducing cart abandonment.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Businesses can choose between self-shipping, using shipping integrations and apps, or outsourcing to a third-party logistics (3PL) provider like ShipBob for efficient order fulfilment.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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ShipBob offers a direct integration with BigCommerce, allowing automatic order processing, inventory management, and access to discounted shipping rates through partnerships with major couriers.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Utilising a fulfilment partner like ShipBob can improve shipping speed, reduce costs, and enhance the overall customer experience by leveraging multiple fulfilment centres and advanced logistics technology.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

BigCommerce is a leading platform that makes it easy for ecommerce businesses to build and customise an online store with robust development options allowed. With its user-friendly functionality and fully customisable features, you can design product pages, upload products, customise checkout, and set up different shipping methods.  <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creating an aesthetically pleasing and functional online store is the first step towards launching a successful ecommerce business. Once you build a BigCommerce store, you\u2019ll need to develop a shipping strategy<\/a>. From 2-day shipping to free shipping, offering competitive shipping options can help increase average order value<\/a> (AOV), reduce cart abandonment<\/a>, and improve customer loyalty<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this guide, you\u2019ll learn how to easily set up different shipping options for your BigCommerce store, and how to optimise shipping to provide more value for your customers. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why fulfilment and shipping is important for ecommerce<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To meet customer expectations, it\u2019s important for direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands<\/a> to have an order fulfilment<\/a> and shipping strategy in place. <\/span>Without thinking through how you\u2019ll efficiently fulfil and ship orders, it will be challenging to offer shipping methods with competitive rates that don\u2019t cut into profit margins. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before developing a shipping strategy, you\u2019ll have to decide on whether to fulfil and ship orders in-house or outsource fulfilment<\/a>, as well as where you\u2019ll store and manage your inventory. Where you store your ecommerce inventory<\/a> geographically will impact shipping costs as well as the shipping methods you can offer based on where your customers are located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Offering different shipping options allows customers to choose the best option for them. For instance, some customers might be willing to wait for their orders if that means paying less in shipping costs. Sometimes, a customer will need to expedite shipping<\/a> if they need their order right away and will pay premium for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By finding ways to optimise your supply chain<\/a>, you can provide better, more affordable shipping methods while reducing transit times and shipping costs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your BigCommerce shipping options<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Before setting up different shipping methods on your BigCommerce store, you\u2019ll have to think through how you\u2019ll fulfil and ship orders. Depending on the size of your business and your needs, there are a few different shipping options to choose from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Self-shipping<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When ecommerce businesses first start out, they oftentimes will ship orders themselves. That means, spending valuable time packing boxes and waiting in line at the post office. While shipping orders yourself gives you full control over the process, it can be a challenge to keep up with shipping orders efficiently as you grow your business. <\/span>When you ship orders yourself, you also have to think through how you\u2019ll manage your inventory to avoid stockouts<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Shipping integrations and apps<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

BigCommerce offers merchants the ability to set up basic shipping options for their store. But if you\u2019re looking for a more robust solution, the BigCommerce Apps Marketplace<\/a> offers a wide range of integrations and apps specifically for fulfilment and shipping, including solutions for label printing (shipping labels and return labels<\/a>), dropshipping<\/a>, inventory management, order management<\/a>, and tracking, and fulfilment. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Outsource shipping to a fulfilment partner<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Once an ecommerce business starts to see a large volume of monthly orders, outsourcing fulfilment to a reliable and scalable third-party logistics<\/a> (3PL) is a common best practice. Fulfilment is a time-consuming tasks and can take away from more important initiatives, such as business development, ecommerce customer service<\/a>, and marketing. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A tech-enabled 3PL not only takes fulfilment and shipping orders off your plate but can also provide the fulfilment infrastructure and technology needed to offer competitive shipping, including multiple fulfilment centre locations, built-in inventory management software<\/a>, data and analytics<\/a>, and more. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to set up shipping on BigCommerce<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To set up shipping on BigCommerce, navigate to the Shipping Manager page and follow these steps:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n