The shipping cost that is captured in an Order is the customer-facing cost. There are scenarios†where merchants†offer flat rate shipping to customers but use†various carriers in the backend†for consigning the orders.
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This shipping cost TO THE MERCHANT is not captured in the order.†
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It would be very handy that we capture this cost as well so we can generate reports for it. i.e. what was the actual cost to the merchant to ship a group†of orders?†
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Additionally, make this field exportable as well, from the order export table.†
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Problem:
Say merchant only offers flat-rate†in front end but uses various carriers in the backend. And last month they shipped 100 orders.
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Now he needs to find out how much it actually cost him to ship those orders. Not what he charged his customers but his actual expense.
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Cannot do that, he needs to wait for an invoice/statement from each of his couriers. Match all those 100 orders in that statement (manually) and figure out how much each order cost him to ship.
