> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://soran.ai/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Shipping costs

> Account for what fulfilment costs you.

Shipping is recorded per order: a flat cost, and optionally a different cost per
destination.

Most stores need one rule. Add per-destination rules when your fulfilment cost
genuinely differs by where an order goes, and international shipping is the usual
reason.

## Why there is no cost per weight

A weight-based rule would be one Soran could not evaluate. The order data Soran
stores carries no weight, so a rule that depended on it would silently apply to
nothing.

If your real shipping cost scales with weight, a flat rate set to your average is
the honest approximation, and a per-destination split usually captures more of
the variance than weight does anyway.

## Related

> **[Expenses and profit](/docs/data/expenses-and-profit)**
>
> The other kinds of cost.


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