{"id":2601,"date":"2020-05-05T13:23:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T17:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/?p=2601"},"modified":"2020-05-05T13:23:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T17:23:39","slug":"lol-shipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/05\/lol-shipping\/","title":{"rendered":"LOL Shipping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s always hard to know the best way to price your e-commerce shipping.  Should you exactly match the rate given by the shipping vendor?  Add on a small margin?  Use it as a profit center so you can show lower in-cart prices? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One thing is for sure, though: you should *not* offer as your only shipping option a $169 &#8220;white glove&#8221; delivery service the way Pier One does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pier_one-1024x386.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pier_one-1024x386.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pier_one-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pier_one-768x290.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pier_one-1536x579.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pier_one-2048x772.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always hard to know the best way to price your e-commerce shipping. Should you exactly match the rate given by the shipping vendor? Add on a small margin? Use it as a profit center so you can show lower in-cart prices? One thing is for sure, though: you should *not* offer as your only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/05\/lol-shipping\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LOL Shipping<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shipping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2603,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions\/2603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}