Shipping profiles
A shipping profile is a set of shipping rules for specific products and locations. You can use the default general shipping profile for all your products or create custom shipping profiles for specific products.
Shipping profiles help you charge accurate shipping rates through product-based shipping rules. You can use shipping profiles to set shipping rates for specific products, and charge different amounts based on where you're shipping your products to and from. You can add products that should share shipping rates to a shipping profile, and then set up shipping zones and rates for each location that fulfills those products.
General shipping profile
Each store comes with a general shipping profile by default. If you want to have the same shipping rates for all your products, then the general profile might be sufficient for your store's shipping setup. All your existing and new products are added to the general shipping profile. If a product or variant isn't in a custom profile, then it uses the general shipping rates in your general profile.
Custom shipping profile
If the general shipping profile isn't enough for your business and you want to have different shipping rates for different products, then you can create up to custom shipping profiles. For example, if you sell a few products that are fragile and need more expensive shipping options, then you can create a shipping profile for these fragile products and charge different shipping rates than the rest of your products.
Setting up shipping profiles
- If your order contains products from different shipping profiles or locations, then separate shipping rates for each product are combined to provide your customer with a single shipping rate at checkout.
- You can add a product or a product variant to only one shipping profile at a time. If you add a product or a product variant to a second shipping profile, then it's automatically removed from the first shipping profile.
Set up your general shipping profile
From your admin, go to Settings>Shipping and delivery.
In GENERAL SHIPPING RATES section, click Manage.
Address any changes you need to make to your locations.
For each shipping zone that you want in your shipping profile, complete the following steps:
- In Shipping to, click Create shipping zone.
- Name the shipping zone.
- Select the countries or regions that are part of the zone, and then click Done.
- For each shipping rate you want in the zone, click Add rate, choose the rate's details, and then click Done.
ClickSave.
Create a custom shipping profile
From your Shopify admin, go toSettings>Shipping and delivery. In CUSTOM SHIPPING RATES section, click Create new profile.
Enter a name for the profile.
In the Products section, use the search bar to add products to the shipping profile.
Address any changes you need to make to your locations.
For each shipping zone that you want in your shipping profile, complete the following steps:
- In Shipping to, click Create shipping zone.
- Name the shipping zone.
- Select the countries or regions that are part of the zone, and then click Done.
- For each shipping rate you want in the zone, click Add rate, choose the rate's details, and then click Done.
Click Save.