Thank you for sharing your idea. We love to hear from our customers!
ShipperHQ is able to offer shipping quotes for FEDEX, UPS, USPS, DHL, store pickup and many freight carriers. Also you can show transit times for the Amazon type experience.
You can even set up vendors you for items that are drop ship only and calculate shipping from those locations. Also, you can show all of those costs at the shipping window instead of having to keep checking off different shipping methods in the cart to see what the charge would be. I have heard nothing but great things from Epicor P21 customer using this on web platforms. If this were Magento, the integration is like $85.00 per month. For CIMM2 I was originally quoted $22K per year. I got them down to half that, but still nowhere close to the $85.00 per month.
Their website is https://shipperhq.com .
A good video showing what they can do is here.
https://youtu.be/YUY_V2Rqj6Q?si=DqKW_KMLoKj_OKbR
This was their last follow up email that lists the features.
Thanks for your time today. Autowash definitely has some unique complexity compared to your average retailer or even manufacturer, but all of your challenges are ones we've seen and solved for many other merchants, like JR at Rigid Hitch or heavy machinery manufacturers like iGam.
Here's a summary of some of the ways in which we can have an impact on the business through your shipping experience:
Increase conversions and revenue - by automatically calculating shipping costs right at checkout, you'll convert more orders more easily by allowing customers to automatically self-serve. Shipping is the single biggest contributor to abandoned carts at nearly 63% of carts abandoned at checkout are due to shipping.
Save time through automation - by charging for shipping and capturing that revenue at the point of purchase, your fulfillment team can more efficiently process orders and skip the manual negotiation around shipping they currently have to engage in. Fulfilling more efficiently means more profit, and enables your team to focus on other tasks that can help drive the business forward.
Expand the website's inventory assortment - ShipperHQ can identify dropship inventory and calculate from the appropriate vendors' warehouse. Expanding the assortment on the website will help you capture an even-greater share of your customers' wallets and give them no reason to shop at a competitor.
Thanks Ron for the elaborative idea, we will look into it and will get back in case of more details required.