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How to Modify a Shipping Method

You use the Customer and Orders Manager to modify shipping methods. After you make the modifications, you must refresh the site cache so that the modifications to the shipping method will appear on the Web site.

To modify a shipping method

  1. I Click Start, point to Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 , and then click Customer and Orders Manager.

  2. In Customer and Orders Manager, in the Views pane, click Shipping Methods.

  3. In the Shipping Methods pane, select the shipping method that you want to modify.

  4. In the Tasks pane, click Open Shipping Method.

  5. In the Shipping Method screen, on the Properties tab, do the following:

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    Enabled

    Select Yes to activate the shipping method or No to deactivate the shipping method from the drop-down list.

    Enabled indicates that the shipping method will display on the site as a shipping option.

    Configured mode

    From the drop-down list, select a mode by which to configure the shipping charges.

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    Type the ProgID of the pipeline component.

    See your site developer for the ProgID of the pipeline component.

    Created date

    View the system-assigned date when you created the shipping method.

    You cannot edit this box.

    Last modified

    View the system-assigned date when you last modified the shipping method.

    You cannot edit this box.

    Group ID

    View the GUID assigned by the system to group same shipping methods in different languages.

    You cannot edit this box.

    Add

    Click to define the shipping method in another language.

    Delete

    Click to delete the selected language from this shipping method definition.

    Default language

    Select this check box to specify this language as the default language.

    Language

    Type the name of the language to use for this shipping method.

    Name

    Type the friendly name of the shipping method in this language.

    Description

    Type a description of this shipping method in the language selected.

  6. On the Charges Table tab, do the following.

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    Limit (up to)

    Type the maximum limit to which this shipping rate applies.

    Shipping Rate

    Type the shipping rate.

    Add

    Click to apply a Limit and ShippingRate to the selected shipping method.

    Delete

    Click to delete the selected Limit and Shipping Rate.

  7. Click Save and Close on the toolbar to save the modified shipping method.

To refresh the site cache

  1. In Customer and Orders Manager, in the Views pane, click Shipping Methods.

  2. In the Tasks pane, click Refresh Site Cache.

See Also

Other Resources

What is a Shipping Method?

How to View Shipping Method Details

How to Create a Shipping Method

How to Enable or Disable a Shipping Method

Searching the Business Management Applications

Deleting Information from the Business Management Applications

Refreshing the Business Management Application Cache