# Shaping Up Your Company's Shipping Practices

##### Shaping Up Your Company's Shipping Practices

- Alicia Baumann  
  August 20, 2015

# Effective Shipping Practices

CEO and Co-Founder Jeremy Bodenhamer recently wrote a thought leadership piece featured in The CEO Magazine: [Shaping Up Your Company's Shipping Practices](http://blogs.the-ceo-magazine.com/guest/shaping-your-company%E2%80%99s-shipping-practices)

Most retailers experience online shopping cart abandonment due to the cost of shipping.

> "Many retailers simply don’t have a clear and easy way to calculate the costs of packing and shipping items, or a way to share those figures with potential customers. In turn, many customers come to a screeching halt during the check-out process when they finally see the shipping costs associated with their purchase, and many abandon their purchase altogether. Business suffers as consumers get cold feet due to a lack of transparent total cost and shipping estimates."

[Read on](http://blogs.the-ceo-magazine.com/guest/shaping-your-company%E2%80%99s-shipping-practices) to learn how retailers can implement effective shipping practices through pricing, packaging, and process.