What are Shipping Rules and Restrictions?
Shipping Rules and Restrictions allow you to use conditional shipping and create unique customer scenarios. With country-specific customization, you can tailor the international shipping options to your store's needs perfectly. For example, restrict or allow payment & shipping by customer group, set free shipping for a specific product, or restrict product by country.
Supported E-commerce Platforms
Shipping Rules and Restrictions: Key Features and Benefits
Enable maximum flexibility for your shipping
A Variety of Attributes
Use a wide variety of data — from geolocation and dates to customer groups and product-specific attributes — to create the perfect shipping scenario for every order. All necessary attributes and parameters for shipping rules building are supported across Shopify, Magento, Adobe Commerce and WooCommerce.
Multiple Action Types for Your Rules
Create custom rules to add surcharges or discounts, interchange one shipping rate for another, or completely restrict shipping options and methods.
Save Conditions as Shipping Segments
Configure these conditions once and save them as a preset to use with multiple rules without any need to repeat the setup process. Set up Customer Segments, Product Segments or any other.
When Do You Need Shipping Rules?
Improve the cost-effectiveness of your shipping by creating custom Shipping Rules and Restrictions in order to avoid extra charges, offer discounts for specific locations, exclude certain costly areas from your shipping, restrict delivery, or create shipping by customer group.
How to Use Shipping Rules and Restrictions
Popular shipping tasks solved
- Free Shipping restrictionsEasily offer free shipping for specific product categories, with orders exceeding a certain price threshold, and to customers living in certain areas.
- Surcharge a delivery method for heavy or bulky ordersMaximize the profitability of shipping heavy and oversized orders by imposing surcharges on every order that exceeds certain weight or size dimensions.
- Restrict certain UPS servicesTailor shipping with major carriers to specific services, and hide any services from UPS or any other carrier that hurt your bottom line.
- Discount shipping rates for certain customer group or promo-code ownersEasily implement a system of promo codes and discounts by creating specific Rules and Restrictions.
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Shipping Rules and Restrictions — FAQ
Popular questions answered
The shipping rules for Shopify store can be set based on geo, cart conditions (weight, subtotal, quantity), product tags, collections, vendors and based on any custom field (metafield) you have set in you Shopfiy. Using advanced shipping rules for Shopify you can easily discount, surcharge, replace shipping rates or restrict shipping methods based on your own set of conditions with zero-coding. With Calcurates app it is possible to apply Shopify shipping restrictions to shipping zones, country, states, postcodes, zip codes as well as to restrict shipping to P.O. boxes. Install Calcurates app for Shopify with in-built shipping rules and shipping restrictions features.
The shipping rules for Magento or Adobe Commerce store can be set based on geo, cart and product conditions, customer group and based on any product attribute you have in you Magento or Adobe Commerce. Using shipping rules for Magento 2 or Adobe Commerce you can easily discount, surcharge, replace shipping rates or restrict shipping methods based on your own set of conditions with zero-coding.
With Calcurates extension it is possible to restrict your Magento 2 shipping methods by shipping locations, country, states, postcodes, zip codes, restrict shipping to P.O. boxes and restrict shipping products by Magento 2 customer groups.
Calcurates extension can easily replace any Magento 2 shipping rules extension or Magento 2 shipping restrictions extension.
With Calcurates extension it is possible to restrict your Magento 2 shipping methods by shipping locations, country, states, postcodes, zip codes, restrict shipping to P.O. boxes and restrict shipping products by Magento 2 customer groups.
Calcurates extension can easily replace any Magento 2 shipping rules extension or Magento 2 shipping restrictions extension.
The shipping rules for WooCommerce store can be set based on geo, cart and product conditions, customer group and based on any product attribute you have in you WooCommerce. Using shipping rules for WooCommerce you can easily discount, surcharge, replace shipping rates or restrict shipping methods based on your own set of conditions with zero-coding. With Calcurates plugin it is possible to restrict your WooCommerce shipping methods by country, state, postcodes, zip codes, as well as to restrict shipping to P.O. boxes. It is also possible to restrict WooCommerce shipping methods by product parameters such as category or shipping type. Install Calcurates official plugin for WooCommerce with in-built shipping rules and shipping restrictions features.
It is possible to Hide (Restrict), Discount, Surcharge and Replace the needed shipping option using Shipping Rules functionality.
Yes, each Shipping Rule is created and can be applied to all or a set of shipping options, methods or carrier services.
In order to restrict a shipping option for specific postcodes or range of postcodes, create a Segment with those postcodes. Then create a Shipping Rules using this Segment and select “Hide" as the action for the Shipping Rule.
Yes, with Calcurates Magento extension you can restrict shipping methods by locations using country, states/regions, city, postal codes, address line and even address residential status conditions.
Yes, it is possible to create Shipping Rules for carrier rates too and apply all possible actions (surcharge, discount or replace). All the available carrier services are available for selection in each rule.
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