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Shipping profile

Meaning in e-commerce, with examples

nounCommon term

In e-commerce, shipping profile means: A configured set of shipping rules applied to selected products and fulfillment locations in a store platform.

In Turkish: kargo profili

How it is used

Use for grouping products with particular delivery settings; exact profile features depend on the platform.

Example sentences

  1. We created a shipping profile for furniture that cannot use the standard parcel service.

    The product group receives delivery rules suited to its shipping requirements.

  2. The lamp was assigned to the wrong shipping profile and showed an inflated delivery fee.

    Product assignment affects which configured rate rules are used at checkout.

Common collocations

  • create a shipping profile
  • assign a shipping profile
  • shipping profile settings
  • shippingSending orders to customers by a delivery company, and also the fee or service option for doing so, such as standard or express shipping.
  • fulfillmentAll the work needed to get an order to the customer after it is placed: storing stock, picking and packing the items and handing the parcel to a carrier.

More terms: Shipping and Fulfillment

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