How to add a Shipping Carrier in PrestaShop 1.5

Carriers are the companies who actually deliver the product to your customer. These can be big companies such as UPS or FedEx, or smaller ones that you contract to locally. Adding a carrier to your PrestaShop 1.5 store is important for getting your item to your customers. You can have many different carriers that may be delivering your products. Once you have decided on which carriers you wish to use, you will need to add them to your store. Follow along below and learn how to do just that.

To add a Shipping Carrier in PrestaShop 1.5:

1. Log into your PrestaShop 1.5 dashboard
2. Using the top menu bar, hover over the Shipping tab and select Carriers from the menu.
   
3. You are now on the Shipping : Carriers page. From here, click on the green Add New button in the upper right corner.
   
4. From here there are several fields for you to fill out to further define the carrier and how they will be involved in shipping your packages. The only two that are required are Company Name and Transit Time. Once completed, click the green Save button in the upper right corner.
   
   

   Company	carrier company name
   Logo	carrier company logo
   Transit Time	Estimated delivery time
   Speed Grade	speed class of carrier
   URL	for package delivery tracking
   Zone	geographic area serviced by carrier
   Group Access	what groups can access this carrier
   Status	enable/disable the carrier
   Apply shipping cost	whether to apply regular shipping and product specific shipping
   Tax	set tax rate for the carrier
   Shipping and Handling	includes shipping and handling costs in carrier rate
   Billing	how to bill the rate
   Out-of-range-behavior	what to do with the carrier if customer orders a product out of scope of the carrier
   Max package height	max height managed by carrier
   Max package width	max width managed by carrier
   Max package depth	max depth managed by carrier
   Max package weight	max weight managed by carrier

5. Your new carrier should be in the Carriers list.
   

   Before	After

   You can now add more Shipping Carriers in your PrestaShop 1.5 storefront. Our next step in shipping is learning to add shipping and handling.