Freight Gateway is a system aimed at the automatic management of contracts with carriers, price lists and freight data, which can be integrated as a plug-in into an e-commerce platform. In this way, it provides more agility and economy in the presentation of freight proposals to the customers of your virtual store, among other advantages.
This type of system groups multiple modes and transport companies. Thus, it can calculate and display, in a matter of seconds, several alternative shipping prices for the products that its customers are trying to buy online.
Find out in this article how a freight gateway integrated into an online store works. Find out what are the main advantages of this type of system. Access 8 options that you can use in your e-commerce.
When you can, also click on " How to calculate shipping costs with Correios (Brazilian postal service )". This way, you'll learn both ways to do it.
HOW DOES A FREIGHT GATEWAY WORK IN VIRTUAL STORE
Once integrated into an online store like yours, a freight gateway system works like this:
- A consumer is drawn to your store through a product ad they saw online;
- Soon after, this consumer selects the product in the shopping cart and informs the zip code;
- Then, the freight gateway calculates prices and presents various delivery proposals;
- Finally, the consumer chooses the best proposal, pays and receives the purchase as desired.
Did you see? It's simple and painless. The calculations are done automatically by the system, which means that you will not need to view tables or do manual calculations to pass the delivery price to the customer. Now check out then some famous freight gateways.
8 ALTERNATIVES FOR ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
These are systems that you can use in your e-commerce:
01 – VTEX Log
02 - Fret
03 - Fast Shipping
04 - Shipping Date
05 - Click Shipping
06 - Best Shipping
07 - Intelipost
08 - b2log
Install one of these systems in your e-commerce and enjoy all its advantages. By the way, keep reading this post to know some of them!
FREIGHT GATEWAY ADVANTAGES
With a freight gateway you can:
- Provide your online store's customers with several shipping modalities immediately;
- Offer various types of shipping, including free shipping for purchases over a certain amount;
- Administer contracts with carriers and delivery companies;
- Work with several product delivery companies, in addition to the Post Office;
- Manage and update with practicality and agility various freight price tables;
- Automatically, quickly and accurately calculate the freight price;
- Avoid the errors that usually occur during manual freight calculation;
- Compare freight prices and offer customers the best delivery companies;
- Generate financial and delivery performance reports;
- Link promotions and ad campaigns to your deliveries.
With so many benefits I find it practically impossible that you still want to do things the manual way. Well then, hurry up! Add a shipping gateway to your online store right now!
When you have time, also click on “ Cargo consolidation in freight calculation ” to read a complementary post. Understand, this way, how to reduce e-commerce freight costs by up to 40%!
