Delivery, Shipping and Click-and-Collect Policy

A customer-facing delivery policy covering delivery areas, options and charges, dispatch times, tracking, failed deliveries, damaged or missing parcels, risk, international orders, click-and-collect and large-item delivery.

Editable Word document
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10pages
Guidance notes included
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Retail & e-commerce

Delivery, Shipping and Click-and-Collect Policy

About this document

What it’s for

Delivery questions are the biggest source of customer contact for online shops. A clear policy sets expectations, reduces complaints and makes your legal position clear – including that the goods remain your responsibility until they reach the customer.

When to use it

  • On your website, linked from the checkout and product pages
  • When choosing or changing couriers
  • When dealing with lost, late or damaged parcels

What’s inside

The document is laid out in the sections below. Each one comes with a plain-English guidance note explaining what it does and what to change.

A complete, ready-to-use document with every section written, your details shown in [square brackets], and guidance notes explaining how to complete it.

How to complete it

  • Fill in your delivery options, costs, cut-off times and areas
  • Make sure checkout shows the same information
  • Update it before peak periods (for example Christmas cut-off dates)

Key points to check

  • Goods are at your risk until delivered to the customer – you cannot shift this to the customer if you choose the courier
  • If you ship outside the UK, explain customs duties and taxes clearly

Our templates are professionally structured starting points for UK businesses, not legal advice. For anything complex, unusual or high-value, have your final version checked by a solicitor.

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