Setting up your costs Answer 11 of 46 Updated

What happens when a product has no weight?

On a rate card that prices by weight, its parcel takes the zone's last price, the one for the heaviest parcels. The order is also flagged. nouz never guesses a weight. A made-up weight could misprice every order with that product without telling you. The last price errs on the expensive side, and it says so.

Without a weight, a parcel cannot be put in a weight bracket. A bracket is one column of the rate card, like Up to 2 kg. One unknown item makes the whole parcel's weight unknown, because a weight with a gap in it is not a weight.

A product Shopify left at its default of 0 g counts as unknown too. Every new Shopify product starts at 0 g, whether it weighs a gram or a kilo.

Size works the same way. On a rate card that prices by size, a product with no packaging size sends its parcel to the zone's largest price. The order is flagged too. For the box a packaging rule picks, a product without a size counts as size 1 until you set one.

Set the weight and the packaging size on the variant's page, under Shipping and stock. A weight you type there is yours from then on. A weight added in Shopify works too, as long as you never typed one in nouz: it arrives with the next sync, Sync now included. The affected days are then worked out again with the real value, and the flag clears. The Overview lists how many orders were priced without a weight or a size, under Needs your attention. Most gaps sit in a few products, so it is a short job. On the Products page, a missing weight reads Add weight in the Weight column. The Weights and sizes card counts them, like 1 weight missing, and its button lists them. So does No weight under Missing in the Filter.

Where you find it Products · a variant's page

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A variant's page: SKU, compare-at price, price reduction and sales price from Shopify, and below them the Weight field, from Shopify until you change it, beside the packaging size and the reorder lead time.
Weight sits under the facts Shopify sends. It is yours to fill in, and it decides which weight bracket the parcel lands in.

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