Setting up shipping profiles

A shipping profile is a set of shipping rules for specific products and locations. To have the same shipping rates for all your products, you only need to set up a general shipping profile. If you want to have different shipping rates for specific products, then you can create additional custom shipping profiles.

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Considerations for setting up shipping profiles

Before you set up your shipping profiles, review the following considerations:

• Make sure that you're familiar with shipping zones and shipping rates. Each location in each profile can have its own shipping zones and rates.
• Some apps that manage fulfillment, such as on-demand custom printing apps, are automatically added as a location to your shipping profile and can alter your shipping settings setup.
• 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. A combined shipping rate at checkout can lead to higher shipping costs for your customers.
• 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.
• If your staff members or a collaborator requires access to your shipping profiles, then you need to give them the Products and Manage settings staff permissions.

Set up your general shipping profile

1. From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Shipping and delivery.

2. In the General shipping rates section, click the shipping profile.

3. In the Shipping origins section, make any changes to your locations. For more information, refer to Managing your fulfillment locations.

4. For each shipping zone that you want in your shipping profile, complete the following steps:

   1. In the Shipping zones section, click Create zone.
   2. Name the shipping zone.
   3. Select the countries or regions that are part of the zone, and then click Done.
   4. For each shipping rate you want in the zone, click Add rate, choose the rate's details, and then click Done.

5. Click Save.

Create a custom shipping profile

1. From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Shipping and delivery.

2. In the Custom shipping rates section, click Create new profile.

3. Enter a name for the profile.

4. In the Products section, click Add products, and then add products to the shipping profile.

5. In the Shipping origins section, make any changes to your locations. For more information, refer to Managing your fulfillment locations.

6. For each shipping zone that you want in your shipping profile, complete the following steps:

   1. In the Shipping zones section, click Create zone.
   2. Name the shipping zone.
   3. Select the countries or regions that are part of the zone, and then click Done.
   4. For each shipping rate you want in the zone, click Add rate, choose the rate's details, and then click Done.

7. Click Save.