‍Dimensional weight, also known as DIM weight or volumetric weight, is a formulaic pricing technique used by shipping companies to ensure they don’t lose money on large, lightweight shipments. The pricing structure for packages, now, takes into consideration the physical weight and the dimensional (e.g. size) weight.

When choosing a shipping carrier for your ecommerce business, you'll want to consider factors such as the size and weight of your products, the speed of delivery required, and the destination of your shipments.

Shipping zones are based on the distance a package travels from origination to the final destination. Zones are geographic regions that carriers use to calculate shipping times, and ultimately the price to ship a package.

An App to Manage it All?‍ At Atomix, our brand-new, dashboard-driven software allows you to create freight receiving and scheduling.

Shipments weighing over 150 pounds (70 kg) are considered freight shipments. Freight usually pertains to bulk and comes with its own guidelines and regulations with international shipping. Let’s go over a few important things to keep in mind with international freight.

At Atomix, we are excited to announce our new partnership with Passport, which is helping us broaden our horizons with international eCommerce shipping. e

International shipping has some higher costs associated with it, but any business that wants to reach a global market, and thus drive more sales, needs to offer international shipping. It may cost more money at first, but it will bring in more revenue for your business to grow and succeed.

Atomix has initiated conscientious changes to provide exceptional sustainable shipping methods. We have partnered with Eco-Cart, an organization dedicated to reducing ecommerce related deterioration through carbon offsetting.

“Atomix started from our realization that the process of shipping eCommerce orders has been too inefficient & systematized. We had two options — on one hand, doing it ourselves (‘in-house’) was too manual and time-consuming; and on the other hand, working with traditional 3PLs seemed to be a nightmare. Atomix set out to change the standard operating model and create the most personalized software platform & service provider to support modern-day eCommerce brands.”