How to Combine Shipping on eBay through Multiple Ways

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How to Combine Shipping on eBay through Multiple Ways

On eBay shipping fees can add up quickly, hence, buyers and sellers need to know how to combine shipping on eBay. If you don’t know about combining shipping, you might end up spending higher value than the value of the items you are purchasing. Moreover, you will need to pay more than the actual shipping costs.

Unlike many brands, which make you pay shipping fees on every item, other items from the same brand have a single shipping fee. In this way, your shipping fees amount to double the price of the actual one. However, you can avoid this by shopping at eBay as it offers combined shipping to its sellers.

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How to Combine Shipping on eBay (Buyers)

Here is how to combine shipping on eBay through a step-by-step guide:

Open eBay application
Sign in to your eBay account on PC, Mac, or mobile phone
In the upper right corner, you will find a My eBay icon
Click on it and it will redirect you to your personalized account profile
Push “Sold” in the left-hand menu
Check the boxes that you wanna combine, you just need to click on them
The boxes are on the left side of the item’s thumbnail or title, you just need to click them
At last, you need to create the invoice by clicking on the shipping cost and changing it
Just click on “send invoices” and the process ends here

How to Combine Shipping on eBay Automatically (Seller)

Can I automatically combine shipping as doing it every time is hectic? This issue was troubling multiple users. Therefore, eBay allowed the buyers to automatically combine the shipping and allow you to set invoices at new rates. You can automatically add invoices to your every purchase shipping:

Open the eBay platform you use on your device
Open the Combined payments and shopping discounts page on your device
Under the Combined payments section, click on Create or Edit to change the settings
If you haven’t already selected the option, then click on it and push the feature of “allowing buyers to send combined payment” to all the purchases they have made
Lastly, select the length of the feature to be allowed to buyers, this means you can restrict the availability of this feature to a limited time
Lastly, click on save, so the settings can apply to every purchase from then on
Apart from that, you can make some changes as well
Under the combined shipping discounts section, you can enable the flat shipping rule
The flat shipping rule sets the best rates for each item editing the first purchases
After that, you can also add some additional items to it, in smaller chunks

Moreover, you can also add it to the item weight rather than the flat fee (combined shipping rates)
You need to locate the “Calculated shipping rule” section and then let it redirect to the next page
You can choose there whether you want to combine all item’s weights or if you wanna choose a single item or more and combine their weights
Additionally, you can subtract a particular amount from purchasing each extra item
Don’t forget to click save after setting your preference to ensure that the purchase contains the combined shipping offer effect