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FedEx Pickup and Special Delivery Options for your WooCommerce Shipments

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Devesh Rajarshi
FedEx Pickup and Special Delivery Options for your WooCommerce Shipments

What if the customer isn’t home when the delivery truck arrives? How to schedule deliveries for such shipments? Concerns like this put most small businesses in a pickle. Even if you could manage the final deliveries on your own, achieving a perfect delivery system could be a definite stretch. For the most part, FedEx Pickup and its wide range of delivery options seem to have solved this problem.

FedEx has designed its time-definite services keeping your interests in mind. You can customize your shipments extensively with their special delivery options. They even allow you to schedule a pickup for your orders, something which e-commerce giants like Amazon.com have mastered over the years.

We will guide to how to use various FedEx pickup services for your business. We will also explore the special delivery options like Hold at Location, FedEx Delivery Signature Options, and others, provided by FedEx.

What is FedEx Pickup?

FedEx Pickup is a special service that is offered by various FedEx services. With this, you can have your shipments picked up right from your warehouse at a pre-defined time and date. Upon request, FedEx agents would arrive at your location to pick up your shipments.

Specifying the pickup time beforehand should give you enough room to plan your shipments. You can easily prepare and pack your items into the packages a night before the FedEx truck arrives next morning.

Talking about packages, FedEx offers pickups for both normal (less than 150 Lbs) and freight shipments. So even if you own a business which entails in shipping heavy items, you’ll capable of providing time-definite deliveries to your clients.

Many online store owners prefer using a third-party e-commerce solution to schedule pickups. Most e-commerce solutions allow users to automatically do that without even entering into their FedEx account.

For instance, there’s the WooCommerce FedEx Shipping plugin for WooCommerce users that provide the necessary features to schedule FedEx Pickup. We will discuss more on this later in this article.

Things you need to get started with FedEx Pickup

FedEx has certain restrictions when it comes to scheduling pickups. To begin with, FedEx will only pick up shipments billed to a FedEx account number. So it’s important to get yourself a FedEx account before you proceed any further.

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