Shipping zones
A shipping zone, or a zone, is a collection of geographical areas that share similar transit durations and transit rates. The geographical areas of carriers groups are defined by origin and destination postal codes across different zones. Then, common shipping rates and transit durations are set across the origins and destinations.
A shipping zone is a group of geographical areas that share similar transit durations and transit rates.
As a fulfillment manager, you might want to ship products from a ship node to a destination address by using carriers that provide the list of zones they operate into. For a carrier service, you can define zones with different levels of postal-code granularity to manage your in-country or international shipping packages. After you define zones, you can specify the transit durations for each zone.
To configure a zone and transit components, see the Upload shipping zone components API.
To specify the zones in which the carrier services operate, use the Upload zone definitions API. To manage the time taken by the carrier service to ship packages between zones, use the Upload transit durations by zones for carrier service API.
Scenarios
- Create zones to handle your in-country shipping scenario
- Create zones to handle your international shipping scenario
- Specifying transit durations for each zone
- Specifying transit rates for each zone
For more information, see Scenario: Carrier service zones.