Anyone with a 3PL or carrier contract · Imports into nouz
Shipping rate card
A shipping rate card is the price list a carrier or 3PL bills you on: one row per zone and weight bracket, with the price a parcel in that bracket costs. Copying your contract into one file is how per-order shipping cost stops being a guess.
The file
nouz-shipping-rate-card.csv · 5 columns · one example row
Carriers do not charge a flat rate. They charge by where a parcel goes and what it weighs, so the card mirrors that: a zone, which is a name plus the countries it covers, a weight range in grams, and a price. Any parcel is then priced by finding its one row.
Two details save the arithmetic later. Brackets must touch without overlapping, or one parcel has two prices. And every country you ship to needs a zone, with a catch-all for the rest of the world, so no order is ever unpriced. Done properly, the card turns logistics cost per order from a monthly surprise into a number you can read per order.
Keep this file to carriage. If your 3PL bills pick and pack separately, that belongs in its own rule, because mixing the two hides which half is rising. Once the card is filled, feeding a typical order into the ecommerce break-even calculator shows what a carrier increase does to the orders a month has to clear.
How to use it
- 01Copy each zone from your carrier contract as a block of rows, one row per weight bracket.
- 02List the countries each zone covers as two-letter codes, the way the example row shows.
- 03Check the brackets touch without overlapping: 0 to 1000, then 1000 to 2000, and so on.
- 04Add a catch-all zone for every country you did not list, so nothing ships unpriced.
- 05Import the card into nouz under Costs, and every parcel is priced by its own destination and weight.
What is inside
| Row | zone | country_codes | weight_from_g | weight_to_g | price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Germany | DE | 0 | 1000 | 4.90 |
| 2 | |||||
| 3 |
Every column, explained
| zone | Your name for the zone: Germany, Rest of EU, World. |
|---|---|
| country_codes | The two-letter codes the zone covers. A country can belong to one zone only. |
| weight_from_g | The bracket's lower bound in grams, inclusive. |
| weight_to_g | The bracket's upper bound in grams. The next bracket starts where this one ends. |
| price | What the carrier bills you for a parcel in this zone and bracket, net. |