Applying Discounts to UPS Shipping Rates
If you receive discounts from UPS®, or want to offer a discount to your customers and cover the remainder of the cost, you can display discounted shipping rates to your customers.
Discounted UPS rates can be offered when you use real-time rates. To learn more, see UPS® Real-Time Rates.
To offer free shipping, use promotions or create a shipping item with a flat rate of $0.00. Do not set the discount rate on an existing shipping item to 0.
To learn more, see Promotions and Free Shipping With an Item.
To offer a discount for a UPS shipping item:
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Go to Lists > Accounting > Shipping Items.
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Beside the shipping item to offer a discount for, click Edit.
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Click the Shipping Rate subtab.
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Select UPS Real-Time Rate.
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Enter the Discount Rate. This number is multiplied by the rate by to receive the correct discount.
For example, if you want to offer a 25% discount off the real-time rate UPS returns, enter 0.75.
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Click Save.
The discounted rate now shows on transactions and on your Web site.
The UPS real-time rate is multiplied by the discount rate to calculate the discounted shipping rate.