Shipping cost, courier ops, COD and RTO, inventory sync.
Freight is billed on chargeable weight, a calculated figure that depends on your box as much as your product. Here is how the calculation works, where the surprises come from, and how to dispute a weight you can prove.
7 min readA returned COD parcel costs you freight in both directions, the packaging, the handling and days of stock nobody can sell. Here is where those returns come from and which lever moves each cause.
7 min readThe same SKU listed on ten marketplaces will oversell the moment two of them sell the last unit before the others hear about it. Here's the small set of rules that keeps stock counts honest across channels.
7 min readWork out volumetric vs actual chargeable weight and the total shipping cost from your own courier's rate card, including fuel surcharge and COD fees.
Work out your own RTO rate, what a single return-to-origin actually costs, and how COD's net revenue per order compares to a discounted prepaid option.
