For Magento 2 sellers, it is important to carefully select one or several shipping carriers and then open a commercial account with them. These carriers need to suit their businesses. If admin already has a commercial account with a supported carrier, admin allows customers to choose that carrier when they checkout their cart. An advantage of this action is that the shipping rates is downloaded automatically to admin’s configuration. Therefore, admin do not need to worry about whether the information is correct or not.
In order to provide customers with permissions to choose a shipping carriers in the list of available carriers, admin needs to register the point of origin for your store in the shipping settings section. This action is to calculate the shipping charge based on distances from your store to customers’ destinations. After that, complete the settings for your carriers in settings to make them available. This configuration will be different for each carrier. To complete these actions, admin needs to already have a shipping account with their targeted carriers before. Their account number or user ID and a gateway to carriers’ system will be needed to register in Store Configuration. In case of additional shipping services for your Magento Open Source installation, you can see Magento Connect for more detail.
These days, there are four big companies working in this field:
UPS
Founded in 1907 as a messenger company in the United States, United Parcel Service, also known as UPS, has developed themselves as one of the biggest freight companies worldwide. UPS offers domestic and international shipping services by both land and air to more than 220 countries.
USPS
The United States Postal Service has existed for more than two centuries from 1775. USPS is an independent agency of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States and worldwide.
FedEx
FedEx Corporation is an American multinational courier delivery services company, headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. Like UPS, FedEx also offers domestic and international shipping services within more than 220 countries.
DHL
DHL Express is a division of the German logistics company. DHL provides international courier, parcel and express mail services. DHL is one of the world’s largest logistics companies operating around the world, particularly in sea and air mail.
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