# Group Shipping

## Group Shipping

You can to group several MTO orders together for invoicing and shipping purposes using our “Group Shipping” feature, which will reduce your shipping costs per pair.

### Individual Shipping vs Group Shipping

Orders placed using your Designing Tools will show up on your Admin Order Control Panel as “Pending” orders. Remember that a “Pending” order will be kept on hold until you submit the payment. Only when the payment is cleared, the order will automatically be launched for production.

If you pay for each order separately using the “Pay” button next to the order, you will be charged for individual shipping costs. **This way, orders will automatically be shipped individually when the manufacturing is finished.**

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### Ship Orders Together and Reduce Your Shipping Costs

If you are shipping two or more orders to the same destination, **you may want to group orders together to effectively reduce the associated shipping costs per order**. Total shipping costs will be calculated based on how orders are grouped together. The shipping batch will be shipped only after all grouped orders are finished.

Here is a quick video tutorial on how to group orders to be shipped together. Let us know if you have any questions!&#x20;

{% embed url="<https://vimeo.com/256753695>" %}

### Considerations on Group Shipping

Remember that only “Pending” orders are suitable to be grouped together. You will have to **decide in advance which orders should be shipped together and which orders should be shipped individually**. Once the orders have been paid (individually or grouped) you will not be able to create or modify a shipping batch.

![A whole shipping batch might be completed, but delayed waiting for a specific order to be completed](https://mto.bespokefactory.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/drawback2.jpg)

Also, please realize that **it is not advisable to group many orders together since they will all need to be shipped together**. A large group might be delayed a few days waiting for the last pair to be completed.
