Shipping and Tax

Add Handling Charges

Easily add handling charges separately from standard shipping rates in order to recover the costs incurred during the packaging and handling of other product related tasks. Choose to display this handling charge to your customers or have your ShopDirect Storefront automatically add your specified handling charge to the displayed shipping rate.

Ship by Price, Weight or Dimension

At ShopDirect, we know that customers prefer to calculate shipping costs in a variety of ways. Whether you choose to including total price, total weight or on a per item basis, your ShopDirect Storefront has been developed to be smart and flexible allowing you to select from the most popular methods. With ShopDirect, we ensure that your shipping costs are personalized to your specific business needs.

Restricted Data Floor Access

Access to the data centre floors is restricted to those holding military-grade passcards. It's not just inside this data centre, it's inside a vault inside the data centre Furthermore, access to the data centres themselves is restricted by Biometric hand scanners. Basically what we're trying to tell you is that if there's a place where your information will remain secure and confidential, this is it!

Full International Shipping Capabilities

International shipping calculations provide the ability to ship packages around the world. International calculations can be charged at a flat rate.

Support Downloadable Goods

There is a growing market for downloadable products such as games, training materials, documentation and e-books. The ShopDirect E-commerce software now supports the sale of these online. A Customer's checkout is as per usual except they are provided with individual login information to access their e-products. ShopDirect allows you to set user names and passwords that expire after the specific time frames you yourself set.

Offer Free Shipping

Increase your sales by offering "free shipping". "Free shipping if you buy R500 or more", or "Free shipping with every purchase" are good ad examples to help you boost sales.

Fraud Screens

Disallow shipping to particular countries where instances of fraud are high. In addition, the ShopDirect Shopping Cart allows for the collection of all AVS (According to Various Sources) information including the CVV (Card Not Present) codes. This information is matched to the issuing bank's database in real time. Go a step further and allow the purchaser to ship to their billing address. Please contact us if you are in a high-fraud industry, as there are several options for robust fraud screening add-ons.