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Shipping rates come from one of two places: a table you maintain, or a call to the carrier at the moment of checkout. Each is right for a different business, and choosing the wrong one shows up as either lost margin or a slower checkout.

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A rate table is a set of rules you write: this weight to this destination costs this.

It is instant, it never fails, and it is approximate by design, which is fine when your parcels are similar and your destinations are few. It stops working when the catalogue spans sizes that price very differently, when you ship to places with genuinely variable costs, or when carrier pricing changes often enough that the table is quietly out of date and every order is losing a little. A live rate asks the carrier what this specific parcel costs and is accurate for exactly that reason. The costs are real: it adds a wait at the step where customers are least patient, it needs accurate product dimensions to return anything sensible, and it introduces a dependency that will eventually be unavailable. That last point decides the build. A live rate without a fallback table is a checkout that stops taking money when somebody else's service is down, which is a worse outcome than an approximate price.

We have no office in Glasgow. Our studio is in Rajkot, India, and every project here is delivered remotely — if a supplier who can attend your premises matters to you, that is a fair requirement and we do not meet it.

What a WooCommerce development project includes

Three things, and they are the same wherever you are. What changes is the subject above.

  • Custom themes and versioned business-logic plugins

  • Hosting architecture, caching and speed work

  • Migration, hardening and a named update policy

The other three, and what each one covers

Each answers a different question for Glasgow businesses. None of them repeats this page.

WooCommerce development questions from Glasgow

Three questions about the subject above. How we work, what it costs and who owns the code are answered on the service page.

When does a rate table stop being enough?

When parcels vary enough that one rule cannot describe them, when destinations have genuinely variable costs, or when carrier pricing changes often enough that the table is quietly stale. The symptom is consistent: shipping is roughly right on average and wrong on most individual orders.

What does a live rate need to work?

Accurate dimensions and weights on your products. Without them the carrier is pricing a guess, which is worse than a table because it looks precise. Collecting real measurements is the actual project; connecting to the carrier is the straightforward half nobody should budget much for.

What happens when the carrier is unavailable?

Whatever you built for. A live rate with no fallback means the checkout stops taking money when somebody else's service is down, which is far worse than an approximate price. A table behind the live call costs almost nothing and turns an outage into a slightly wrong shipping figure.

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