UPS Pricing to much

Hi Guys,

I setup UPS pricing on my site and i think its charging little too much for my kind of store...

Here are my options

Enable UPS Shipping
True

UPS Pickup Method
CC

UPS Packaging?
CP

Residential Delivery?
RES

Handling Fee
0.00

Handling Per Order or Per Box
Order

Tax Class
--none--

Tax Basis
Shipping

Shipping Zone
--none--

Sort order of display.
3

Shipping Methods: 
Nxt AM, Nxt AM Ltr, Nxt, Nxt Ltr, Nxt PR, Nxt Save, Nxt Save Ltr, 2nd AM, 2nd AM Ltr, 2nd, 2nd Ltr, 3 Day Select, Ground, Canada,World Xp, World Xp Ltr, World Xp Plus, World Xp Plus Ltr, World Expedite, WorldWideSaver
1DA, 2DA

Right now for 1 day its charging 30 dollars same city and from la to ny its charging 65 dollars. I think this is little to much since its small and light items.

Is there a way where I can lower this prices?

Thanks

Could you check your settings in the Configuration ... Shipping/Packaging ... and see what the Tare Rates are ...

By default, for example, the small/medium Tare Rate setting for 0:3 is adding 3lbs to each order ... if you do not want this, change them to: 0:0

i actually am having the same issue.

all my tare rates are set at 0:0. and i have all the same basic settings the original poster has.

You need to provide some sort of examples of the Ship From and Ship to addresses and the weight that you are shipping in order for us to test this and the amounts that you are seeing on the shipping methods ...

ship from 60137
ship to 60172
weigh is .06

You also might want to compare the rates generated by the shipping estimator on the UPS website. For smaller packages their rates can be ridiculous. If your tare is set correctly then it's probably right.

zubes1001:

ship from 60137
ship to 60172
weigh is .06

And the results you see on the UPS quotes?

$7.43

UPS.com says $9 something.

and my work is on a college campus, and we actually have a ups calculator here in our warehouse, and they told me it was $5.11 to ship it ground (which is the only method we are shipping).

To ship from 60137 and ship to 60172 the weight for .06 lbs ...

UPS says:

Service Latest Pickup
Time: Guaranteed By Total
UPS Next Day Air Early A.M.® 9:00 P.M.
Friday
November 12, 2010
9:00 A.M.,
Saturday
November 13, 2010 75.95 USD*

Days In Transit: Saturday Schedule by
8:00 P.M.
Friday
November 12, 2010 Billable Weight:
1.0 lbs.
UPS Next Day Air® 9:00 P.M.
Friday
November 12, 2010
12:00 P.M.,
Saturday
November 13, 2010 42.32 USD*

Days In Transit: Saturday Schedule by
8:00 P.M.
Friday
November 12, 2010 Billable Weight:
1.0 lbs.
UPS Next Day Air Early A.M.® 9:00 P.M.
Friday
November 12, 2010
8:00 A.M.,
Monday
November 15, 2010 59.68 USD*

Days In Transit: 1 Schedule by
8:00 P.M.
Friday
November 12, 2010 Billable Weight:
1.0 lbs.
UPS Next Day Air® 9:00 P.M.
Friday
November 12, 2010
10:30 A.M.,
Monday
November 15, 2010 26.04 USD*

Days In Transit: 1 Schedule by
8:00 P.M.
Friday
November 12, 2010 Billable Weight:
1.0 lbs.
UPS Next Day Air Saver® 9:00 P.M.
Friday
November 12, 2010
By End of Day,
Monday
November 15, 2010 22.79 USD*

Days In Transit: 1 Schedule by
8:00 P.M.
Friday
November 12, 2010 Billable Weight:
1.0 lbs.
UPS Ground 9:00 P.M.
Friday
November 12, 2010
By End of Day,
Monday
November 15, 2010 9.76 USD*

Days In Transit: 1 Schedule by
8:00 P.M.
Friday
November 12, 2010 Billable Weight:
1.0 lbs.

Zen Cart says:

United Parcel Service (1 x 0.06lbs) (Next Day Air Early AM) $59.68
United Parcel Service (1 x 0.06lbs) (Next Day Air) $26.04
United Parcel Service (1 x 0.06lbs) (Next Day Air Saver) $22.79
United Parcel Service (1 x 0.06lbs) (2nd Day Air) $16.87
United Parcel Service (1 x 0.06lbs) (3 Day Select) $11.07
United Parcel Service (1 x 0.06lbs) (Ground) $9.76

Looks the same to me ...

NOTE: if you setup your Zen Cart shipping module to ship to COM instead of RES addresses you will get:

United Parcel Service (1 x 0.06lbs) (Next Day Air Early AM) $56.96
United Parcel Service (1 x 0.06lbs) (Next Day Air) $23.33
United Parcel Service (1 x 0.06lbs) (Next Day Air Saver) $20.07
United Parcel Service (1 x 0.06lbs) (2nd Day Air AM) $16.44
United Parcel Service (1 x 0.06lbs) (2nd Day Air) $14.16
United Parcel Service (1 x 0.06lbs) (3 Day Select) $8.35
United Parcel Service (1 x 0.06lbs) (Ground) $7.44

interesting.....i switched to COM, and i got $5.11, which is what the guy originally had told me. he must have not selected the right thing.

but i am still getting $7.43, and not the $9.76 that ups.com is showing

If you go to the Modules ... Shipping ... and click on the UPS shipping module ... what are the settings that show in the right panel? :unsure:

If you go to the Configuration ... Shipping/Packaging ... what are all of the settings that you see?

UPS Module Settings:

Enable UPS Shipping
True

UPS Pickup Method
RDP

UPS Packaging?
CP

Residential Delivery?
RES

Handling Fee
0

Handling Per Order or Per Box
Order

Tax Class
--none--

Tax Basis
Shipping

Shipping Zone
--none--

Sort order of display.
0

Shipping Methods:
Nxt AM, Nxt AM Ltr, Nxt, Nxt Ltr, Nxt PR, Nxt Save, Nxt Save Ltr, 2nd AM, 2nd AM Ltr, 2nd, 2nd Ltr, 3 Day Select, Ground, Canada,World Xp, World Xp Ltr, World Xp Plus, World Xp Plus Ltr, World Expedite, WorldWideSaver
GND

Shipping/Packaging

Country of Origin United States
Postal Code 60137
Enter the Maximum Package Weight you will ship 50
Package Tare Small to Medium - added percentage:weight 0:0
Larger packages - added packaging percentage:weight 0:0
Display Number of Boxes and Weight Status 0
Order Free Shipping 0 Weight Status 0
Shipping Estimator Display Settings for Shopping Cart 1
Display Order Comments on Admin Invoice 1
Display Order Comments on Admin Packing Slip 1

And if you switch your setting for:

UPS Pickup Method
RDP

to be:

UPS Pickup Method
CP

CP is not one of the options available for pickup method listed. are you sure that is correct?

If that is correct, i did that, and i'm still getting 7.43 for UPS ground.

It all depends on your account with UPS. Your university may have a better deal with UPS due to volume. We just set up a UPS account and needed to adjust our Tare to get it to match, pretty closely, what our shipping costs are going to be.

The best solution for us was to set a "flat rate" cost for our main product, then add the UPS options for 2nd day and overnight shipping.

yeah i guess thats one way to do it. i should probably go back and make sure to check it again just in case. I highly doubt though since we are also offering priority, which is cheaper in the first place, that anyone is going to want UPS to begin with.

Hello,

I talked to the UPS guys and they told me there is two types of rate on each account.

One is publisher rate and another one is your discounted price which UPS gonna bill you under your account.

Now question is how you wanna display the shipping rate? If you do not wanna make profit from your shipping then simply display the negotiation rate fileds from UPS xml.

You may need to download the xml details from the UPS developer site.

Now if you wanna keep little bit margin on shipping too, then simply add some margin by multiplying little bit percent say 10% on your negotiation rate! thats all and you are done.

Please note: UPS publisher rate is what, a regular person see on their website and negotiation rate refer to the rate they are giving you behind!

I hope above information help people to understand why UPS showing more price with the basic settings.

I might be wrong on some peoples opinion! if yes then please enlighten me.

Thank you everyone.