Offering Expedited Shipping on your listing

Expedited shipping is a great new way to have an option live on site that can be booked and paid for quickly by customers needing a shorter lead time. Offering expedited shipping can help you capture more eligible events with shipments.

Below is the distribution of event lead time for purchases prior to the introduction of expedited shipping as a purchase option and we expect the number with shorter lead time to increase as more options are made available for purchase with a shorter lead time.

Distribution of event lead time for purchases with shipments

How to Setup Expedited Shipping

On your listing on the general tab scroll down to the pricing section and you'll see the 3 shipping options.

Standard Shipping Option (required)

All virtual event listings with shipments must have 1 standard shipping offering that includes shipping bundled into the event price and shows as Free Shipping on the listing.

Below is how the event page will look with shipping method not selected where it will show the standard lead time and free shipping.

Expedited Shipping Fields

To setup expedited shipping you will toggle on the expedited or express method and need to setup a price (Host Payout of 95% of price for expedited shipping) and lead time. The lead time is the number of total days including non-business days that you need addresses before shipping with this expedited method for guests to receive the item in time.

Expedited Shipping is processed at a reduced 5% commission for Elevent to cover processing costs. You will receive 95% of the price you put in this column as your host payout.