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It's been a long time coming, but we've finally made it possible for you to charge your customers Sales Tax or VAT! You can charge by country, state, or county (in the US). You can even have multiple tax rates in each jurisdiction, that charge different prices for the different types of products you sell. For instance, sometimes in the US, sales tax for clothing is different than sales tax for a CD. If you set up different prices for each of these types of products, and a fan checks out with both of them, you'll charge them one rate for the CD and another for the clothing.

In addition to supporting multiple jurisdictions and rates per tax rule, you can optionally have digital items and an order's shipping price included in a tax's calculation.

To get started with charging tax, first head into the App Store and install the Tax Rules app. Then, check out this help doc.

If you have any questions, just send us a message!

Our Simple Shipping solution is a great way to easily get your product up for sale, with little effort spent on shipping prices. But what if you want to fine tune the price of shipping? That's where our new Weighted Shipping app comes into play. With Weighted Shipping, you can assign a specific weight to each type of product in your store, and then set prices across multiple weight tiers & methods. It's perfect for fans that check out with a lot of products at once, because you can factor in as many price breaks as you'd like. With Simple Shipping, there's only one price break.

Packaging Weight

To tune your shipping prices even further, you can optionally set a packaging weight. Then, if someone buys 3 LPs from you, they only pay for the packing material weight once. If you had factored that weight into the weight of the LP, then they'd be paying that weight 3 times.

Setting Lower & Upper Bound Limits

You can optionally limit a method by weight, if you set the upper bound limit, and then create a new method that has the lower bound limit, right above the other method's upper bound limit. Works great for USPS Standard and Priority Shipping.

Enable Weighted Shipping Today

Switching your store to weighted shipping is easy. To get started, just follow these steps:

• Go into your dashboard by signing in on the homepage.
• Click "App Store" on the top right.
• Click "Install" on the "Weighted Shipping" app.
• Click "Inventory" in the dashboard navigiation.
• Click the gear icon on the left and then click "Manage Shipping".
• Click the "Weighted Shipping" tab.

From the "Weighted Shipping" tab, you'll see your existing shipping profiles. First, add a weight to each profile. After that, use the "New Location" button to configure price tiers for each shipping method you'd like to offer to your customers. When you're done, click the "Switch to Weighted Shipping" button on the top right and your new weighted shipping configuration will be live.

For more details about how to use Weighted Shipping, take a look at this help doc. And as always, if you have any questions, feel free to contact us.

We just released a really cool update to our Simple Shipping feature that will allow you to create multiple methods for shipping to each location. It also means you won't have to manually set a shipping method on each order when marking them as shipped.

Drastic times, call for drastic measures. If the album your fans have been waiting months for, finally gets released, and they've got to have it in their hands, "LIKE NNOOOOWWWWWW", then the new multiple methods addition to Simple Shipping will be their savior. Now you can make any type of shipping method available, easily and quickly. So for example, if you're in the United States you can have Media Mail as an option, as well as Priority, Priority Express, and others from other carriers.

To start adding new methods, check out this help doc.

And of course, if you have any questions at all, you can send us a message.

We're about ready to drop a whole bunch of features on you! First up, MailChimp Integration and Newsletter Opt-Ins.

We've heard from a lot of people interested in asking their customers if they'd like to sign up for their newsletter during checkout, so we added this capability. With the Newsletter Opt-In feature, you can customize the message shown in the cart, as well as set the default to be opt-in or not.

Next is MailChimp Integration. If you've never heard of MailChimp, it's one of the best newsletter services out there. They have a really cool free plan that lets you send 12,000 emails, to 2000 subscribers per month. We've made it so that if you connect your MailChimp account, your existing customers, as well as any new customers, automatically get sent to a MailChimp list of your choice. If you have an opt-in message enabled, just your customers that opt-in will be sent to MailChimp.

To enable MailChimp Integration, first make sure you've signed up for their service. Then...

• Go to the "App Store" section of your Dashboard.
• Install the "MailChimp Integration" app.
• Connect your MailChimp account.

After returning to your dashboard, you can now enable MailChimp Integration by following these steps:

• Go to the "Sales" section of your Dashboard.
• Click the Gear Icon.
• Select "Manage Customers".
• Click the Gear Icon.
• Select "Newsletter Preferences".

You'll also find the opt-in feature in the same "Newsletter Preferences" area.

As always, if you have any questions, please feel free to send us a message. Enjoy!

Today, we're happy to announce the release of our most requested feature of all time: Bundles! It's taken us a long time to wrap our heads around this baby, but we did, and we know you're going to love it.

Bundles, You Say?

So what exactly is a bundle? A bundle is when you take two or more variations, from one or more products, and combine them into a single purchasable package. It also makes it so you don't need to split up the inventory on those products. For instance, let's say you had a CD and a Hat, and you wanted to sell them separately, but also as a package. You can create the CD and the Hat as separate products, then create a bundle of both items together. When someone buys the bundle, it deducts from each product's inventory, and keeps everything in sync. This means you could have a CD with a 1000 piece inventory, but sell it as a package with a ton of other products, and not have to allocate inventory for each package ::insert eye bulging emoji here::!

Also In Bundles, Only In Bundles

To make bundles even more useful, we've added a new availability state to regular products. By default, available products are visible, and purchasable in your storefront. But you can also hide an entire product from your storefront, and make it only purchasable from within bundles.

So Much More

Bundles are so incredibly powerful, they have their own spot in the new Inventory section, right next to your Products. To make your first bundle, head into your Dashboard, click "Inventory" at the top, click "New Item", then click "Bundle".

For all the details on inventory, cart limiting, sale limiting, and more, please take a moment to check out the Bundles FAQ.

And as always, if you have any questions, please feel free to send us a message. Enjoy!