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How would they know your shipping cost if they don't know at least your zip-code?



Calculate Shipping [enter zip here]

That's all you should need to do. Or have a flat rate for e.g. continental US.


Calculate Shipping [enter zip here] [enter country here] [select shipping option here]

Is this on the product or cart page or both? Do we assume we can use these details to pre-populate the actual shipping form later?

Though I agree that your simple example can work in certain limited circumstances and is something I would love to see on most sites I visit, shipping is one of those things that gets very complicated very quickly.

Edit: Come to think of it. A simple and persistent form displayed on each page that I could fill in at the start of a shopping session that allowed the shipping cost to be displayed alongside the current cart total at all times would be pretty useful. I don't think I've actually seen an example of that.


Sure. Just sounded like OP didn't want to give ANY information what so ever.


With GeoIP you can estimate the zip-code




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