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title: Configuring shipping carriers
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k82/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/configuring-shipping-options.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k82/e-commerce-features/customizing-and-developing-your-store/implementing-custom-shipping-carrier-providers.md
---

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In Kentico, [shipping options](https://docs.kentico.com/k82/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/configuring-shipping-options.md) are provided by _carriers_ and _services_ of these carriers. Imagine a _carrier_ as a package which carries some shipping functionality; for example, a typical carrier is a _FedEx carrier_ which returns shipping availability and price from FedEx. However, FedEx offers more than one type of shipping. That's why carriers provide _services_. In the example with the _FedEx carrier_, its services can be the _International Priority service_ for a quick international delivery and the _International Economy service_ for a slower but cheaper international delivery. If your on-line store has this carrier, then you are able to create shipping options in the Kentico administration interface that offer customers the _FedEx International Priority_ shipping and the _FedEx International Economy_ shipping.

By default, the Kentico E-commerce Solution offers the **Default carrier**. The **Default carrier** provides the **Weight based shipping** service on which you can base shipping options with costs in levels according to weight of products in customers' shopping carts. Developers can also [implement custom carriers](https://docs.kentico.com/k82/e-commerce-features/customizing-and-developing-your-store/implementing-custom-shipping-carrier-providers.md) and add them to your Kentico. For example, you can add either carriers that provide services offering shipping based on the day of the week, based on customer's address, etc., or more complex carriers, i.e., when you want to work with shipping providers (e.g., FedEx, USPS, Australia Post) and communicate with their systems to be able to calculate the actual shipping cost real-time.

After a developer implemented and installed a custom carrier provider to your Kentico instance, [create and configure](#creating-and-editing-carriers) a carrier in the Kentico administration interface. Then you can create shipping options based on services of the carrier. You can manage carriers on the **Shipping -> Carriers** tab in the **Store configuration** application.

## Creating and editing carriers

1. Open the **Store configuration** application.
2. Navigate to the **Shipping -> Carriers** tab.
3. To create a new carrier, click **New carrier**. To edit an already existing carrier, click **Edit** () in the **Actions** column.
4. Enter properties of the carrier:
   - **Name** – specifies the name of the carrier displayed in the administration interface.
   - **Code name** – specifies the name of the carrier used by developers in the code.
   - **Carrier provider** – specifies the assembly and its class that provides functionality of the carrier. The carrier provider can be set only when creating a carrier, it cannot be changed later.
5. If editing a carrier, there can be another configuration tab with additional properties of the carrier. However, it can vary because it depends on the carrier. If possible, switch to the tab and enter the additional properties. See the example in the picture with the **Configuration** tab.

   ![Possible another configuration tab](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k82/configuring-shipping-carriers/possibly_another_tab.png "Possible another configuration tab")

   > **Info:** Always check if the carrier has a configuration tab and set all fields on the tab!
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   > If you leave fields on the configuration tab empty or you enter incorrect values to them, the system will allow you to create shipping options based on the carrier anyway. However, if they are required for correct functionality of the carrier, the carrier may work incorrectly and possibly cause errors.
6. Click **Save**.

The system saves the carrier. From now on, you can create shipping options based on services of this carrier.

## Removing carriers

To remove a carrier, click **Delete** () in the **Actions** column on the line of the carrier you want to remove.

> **Info:** You cannot remove a carrier on which an existing shipping option is based. To remove such a carrier, you need to remove those shipping options first.