We found a couple overly technical discussions in Drupal Commerce, one of them we found in Shipping. People would read this description and wouldn't find it helpful and/or didn't understand it.

On admin/commerce/config/shipping

1.

Shipping methods are defined by modules as methods for determining the available shipping services for an order. Default rules are defined for each shipping method that collect shipping rates for its services for orders. These can be accessed using the appropriate operations link below.

On admin/commerce/config/shipping/services

2.

Shipping services represent the different types of shipping made available by a shipping method. Each shipping method may have a different way of defining shipping services. Default Rules components are defined for any shipping service specifying it and can be accessed using the appropriate operations link below.

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Bojhan’s picture

Bojhan commented

Take a look at http://drupal.org/node/604342. With that in mind 1) I removed the use the operation links below, people already know that and 2) removed the notion of default rules (do people know what that means?):

1. Shipping methods are the different models that are used for shipping (e.g. flat rate, variable rate).

2. Shipping services are the specific ways of shipping (Post, Express, etc).

googletorp’s picture

googletorp commented
Status: Active » Fixed

This makes sense - I've committed these texts with a minor alteration to dev.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.