A shipping method contains one or more shipping regions and shipping charges that are based on order cost. Your store must contain at least one shipping method that shoppers can select during checkout. If you create and enable more than one shipping method, shoppers choose from a list of the enabled shipping methods. Then, the selected method is associated with the shipping group selected in the shoppers’ order.

If you run multiple sites within a single instance of Commerce Cloud, these sites can share shipping methods, or you can create site-specific shipping methods. See Create a shipping method for information about assigning shipping methods to specific sites. See Configure Sites in Extending Oracle Commerce Cloud to learn how to create multiple sites.

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