Free plus shipping vs shipping fees for dropshipping

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hey everyone my name is David and it's question time just like each week we're taking a closer look at questions that you all dropped into the comments of videos on our YouTube channel if you have questions of your own don't be shy alright here's what we got today Vicki wants to know how to add an additional fee at checkout to pay for packaging from a particular supplier well the short answer would be always try to avoid adding fees at checkout always few things will trigger more abandon checkouts than a surprise fee that pops up right before the shopper clicks purchase what we'd suggest is that you try to incorporate any additional fees into the price of the product of course you want to keep your prices as low as possible but just about anything is preferable to adding costs at checkout if you do have to charge a bit more for products then you can offset that by offering free shipping nobody likes additional fees but everybody likes free so if your products cost a couple extra bucks to cover packaging to make sure your shoppers know that the shipping part is already included our final recommendation would be to try to find the same product from a different supplier one that doesn't have these extra fees you can often find the same product offered by numerous suppliers so if the product is good but the shipping cost isn't see if you can use a different supplier overwhel has special features that let you swap out suppliers without having to do an overhaul of your product catalog got your own question shoot we're scanning the comments every day and we'd love to use your question in our next video we'll be cranking out videos every week so if your as in to drop shipping as we are subscribe for more until next time have you drop shipping