Shipping discounts let you offer buyers savings on shipping when they purchase multiple items from you. Offering a shipping discount may encourage buyers to buy additional items from you.

Listings with shipping discounts appear to buyers with the message: "Save on shipping". When buyers pay for more than one item and your shipping discounts are set up and activated, eBay will automatically calculate the shipping discount and deduct it from the total shipping cost. The shipping discount will be shown to your buyers when they complete payment.

Note: To offer shipping discounts, you must offer combined payments. For more information on combined payments, see Using combined payments. You can set your shipping discounts in My eBay Preferences.

You can offer shipping discounts whether you sell many similar items or a wide variety of items. If you want to expand a rule to fit your needs better, you can create profile names. Profile names are a way for you to manage your shipping discount rules. See more information on managing profiles.

Buyers can purchase Buy It Now items that offer PaisaPay using their shopping cart. Buyers can add items to their cart and then complete multiple purchases from the same seller. If you offer shipping discounts on your Buy It Now items, you can encourage buyers to make multiple purchases from you and buy them together to avail of the discount.

You can specify the following for shipping discounts on combined purchases:

• Flat shipping rules

• Promotional shipping rules

• Insurance rules

Set shipping discounts

To set up shipping discounts:

Note: To exclude an item from shipping discounts, clear the "Apply a shipping discount if the buyer purchases multiple items from me" check box on the Sell Your Item form. A buyer may still send a combined payment to you, but a shipping discount will not be applied.

Flat shipping rules

You can choose from four options to create a flat shipping rule. This rule will apply to all listings for which you specify flat shipping costs and combined shipping discounts. Select one rule, and then apply profiles to the rule.

• Charge the buyers the shipping price for the item with the highest shipping cost, and then add an additional cost for each item they purchase from you.
  
  Example: A buyer purchases 3 items with a shipping cost of Rs.50 plus Rs.20 for each additional item. The combined shipping cost for these items would be Rs.90 (Rs.50 + Rs.20 + Rs.20).
  
  

• Charge the buyers the shipping price for the item with the highest shipping cost, and then ship any additional items they purchase from you for free.
  
  Example: A buyer purchases 3 items with a shipping cost of Rs.50 plus Rs.0 for each additional item. The combined shipping cost for these items would be Rs.50
  
  

• Charge the buyers the shipping price for the item with the highest shipping cost, and then subtract a shipping cost for each additional item they purchase from you.
  
  Example: A buyer purchases 3 items with a shipping cost of Rs.50 minus Rs.20 for each additional item. The combined shipping costs for these items would be Rs.110 (Rs.50 + Rs.30 + Rs.30).
  
  

• Charge the buyers the shipping price for the item with the highest shipping cost, and then subtract a percentage for each additional item they purchase from you.
  
  Example: A buyer purchases 3 items. One item has a shipping cost of Rs.50, another has a shipping cost of Rs.40, and another has a shipping cost of Rs.10. You specified that the buyer be charged the highest shipping cost and receive 50% off shipping for each additional item. The combined shipping costs for these 3 items would be Rs.75 (Rs.50 + Rs.20 + Rs.5).

Promotional shipping rules

You can choose from three options to create a promotional shipping rule. This rule will apply to all listings with shipping discounts. When buyers qualify for your promotional shipping rule, the promotion takes priority over your flat shipping costs.

• Spend a specified amount on 2 or more items and shipping is free or discounted.
  
  Example: You can specify that if a buyer purchases 2 items for a total of Rs.50, the buyer receives free shipping. Or you can specify that if a buyer purchases 2 or more items for a total cost of Rs.100, the buyer pays only Rs.10 for shipping.
  
  

• Buy a specified number of items and shipping is free or discounted.
  
  Example: You can specify that if a buyer purchases 4 or more items from you, the items will be shipped for free. Or you can specify that if buyer purchases 4 or more items from you, the total shipping cost will be Rs.10.
  

• Charge a maximum shipping amount for a single order.
  
  Example: You can specify that a buyer be charged no more than Rs.10 for shipping if the buyer purchases more than one item from you.

Managing profiles

Profiles are a way for you to manage your combined shipping discount rules. When you select a rule for your shipping discounts, you can specify the amount you want to charge for shipping each additional item. One way to manage shipping discounts is to name your profile something easy for you to identify and remember.

Example 1: You use flat shipping and name one profile “Light items” and specify Rs.10 as the additional cost per item. You name another profile “Heavy items” and specify Rs.30 as the additional cost per item.

You select the profile name in the Sell Your Item form when you add shipping discounts to your listing.

Note: When you delete profile names, listings with that profile name will no longer have combined shipping discounts. However, if the listing has any activity, such as a bid, then the combined shipping discount profile will still apply.