Magento 2 Distance Based Shipping helps the admin to create a custom shipping method in which the shipping charges are calculated based on the unit distance between the warehouse and customer’s delivery location.
E-commerce businesses many times lose customers because of higher shipping charges or unmanaged and improper shipping charges as the customers do not prefer to spend high amounts for shipping the product.
It would be more convenient if the store charges shipping rates based on distance. Therefore, Meetanshi has developed the Magento 2 Distance Based Shipping extension that allows to take different shipping charges based on location.
You can charge more to the customers having 10 kms away location from your warehouse. Similarly, you can charge less to the customers having 5 kms away location from your warehouse.
The module uses Geocode API that offers the geocoding and reserves geocoding of addresses.
Benefits of Magento 2 Distance Based Shipping Extension
Allows to implement distance-based shipping rates in Magento 2 store
Set a custom title for the shipping method.
Set a custom name for the shipping method.
The module has an option to configure a custom error message to display on the frontend.
Using Google Map API key, the integration of Google Geocode API for the distance calculation to apply the distance-based shipping charges is easy.
Set one of the preferred distance units: Kilometres, meters, miles, yards.
To set shipping cost based on the from and to distance, enter the shipping amount.
Shipping cost calculation based on one of the two types:
Fixed
Per Unit
Set the minimum and maximum order amount to allow using this shipping method.
Set the maximum distance allowed for the shipping can be set by admin.
The country selection to allow can be done by the admin.
There is an option to show method only when applicable.
The "Warehouse Manager" backend grid is useful to manage the warehouses for the distance-based shipping calculation.
Allows the admin to add can add new warehouse.
Customers can select the nearest warehouse from the frontend.
At the checkout page, the distance-based shipping rate is displayed under the order summary.
From My Account section, the customers can see distance-based shipping method details.
Allows the admin to see the location wise shipping charges applied to customers' order from the backend.