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E-commerce vocabulary · Pricing and Promotions

Free shipping

Meaning in e-commerce, with examples

nounCore term

In e-commerce, free shipping means: A delivery option for which the customer pays no shipping fee, often offered only on orders above a certain amount.

In Turkish: ücretsiz kargo, kargo bedava

How it is used

One of the strongest selling points in online retail. Stores offer free shipping, set a free shipping threshold, or run free shipping weekends. The cost does not disappear: the seller pays it or builds it into prices.

Example sentences

  1. We offer free shipping on all orders over 750 lira.

  2. Free shipping brought in more orders, but it also cut our margin on small items.

Common collocations

  • offer free shipping
  • free shipping threshold
  • qualify for free shipping
  • free shipping on orders over
  • shippingSending orders to customers by a delivery company, and also the fee or service option for doing so, such as standard or express shipping.
  • average order valueThe average amount a customer spends in one order, found by dividing total revenue by the number of orders in the same period.
  • discount codeA short code a customer types at checkout to get a lower price, a fixed amount off or free shipping.
  • cart abandonmentThe situation in which a shopper adds products to the cart but leaves the site without completing the purchase.
  • landed costThe full cost of getting a product to its destination: the product price plus shipping, insurance, customs duty, taxes and other fees.

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