What are Shopify Shipping Rules and Restrictions?
With Advanced Shipping Rules for Shopify you may restrict shipping methods or modify shipping rates (surcharge, discount or replace) if certain conditions are met. Conditions for the rules can be order subtotal, weight, certain postal codes, certain items in cart and more. One Shipping Rule can be applied to many shipping methods.
Advanced Shipping Rules and Restrictions for Shopify: Key Features and Benefits
Enable maximum flexibility for Shopify shipping rates and methods
A Variety of Shopify Parameters
Use a wide variety of parameters for conditioning (delivery area, postcodes, tags, collections, metafields, SKUs, vendors, weight, subtotal, product quantity and more) to create unique shipping calculation scenarios for your Shopify store.
Multiple Action Types for Shipping Rules
Create advanced Shopify Rules to add surcharges or discounts, replace one shipping rate with another, or completely restrict shipping options and methods in Shopify.
Save Conditions as Shipping Segments
Configure your unique Shopify shipping conditions once and save them as a preset to use with multiple rules without any need to repeat the setup process.
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Impossible to apply advanced Free Shipping Rules in Shopify
Apply your unique, complex and multiple free shipping conditions for Shopify with ease.
Hard to manage multiple Shopify shipping profiles
Build Advanced Shipping Rules and apply them to multiple shipping methods instead of configuring bulky Shopify shipping profiles
Impossible to apply Shipping Rules based on city, postcodes, address line and address residential status in Shopify
Configure advanced Shipping Zones for Shopify based on city, postcodes, address line and address residential status
Missing Shopify Shipping Rules by SKUs, tags, collections, vendors or metafields
Configure advanced Shipping Rules for Shopify based on SKUs, tags, collections, vendors, metafields and other parameters
Impossible to restrict, surcharge or discount Shopify shipping methods and rates based on conditions
Restrict, surcharge, discount or replace Shopify shipping methods and rates based on your unique conditions
Live Shipping Rates from Major Carriers for Shopify
Connect own carrier accounts to Calcurates for real-time rates and apply your unique Shipping Rules and Restrictions for Shopify
When Do You Need Advanced Shipping Rules for Shopify?
Building your own set of advanced Shipping Rules and Restrictions for Shopify helps you achieve cost-effective shipping. You may add extra shipping charges, offer discounts for specific locations or exclude certain remote areas when setting shipping rates for Shopify.
How to Use Advanced Shipping Rules and Restrictions App for Shopify
Popular Shopify shipping challenges solved
Shopify Free Shipping restrictions
Easily offer free shipping for specific product groups, for orders exceeding a certain subtotal threshold, and to customers living in certain areas.
Apply shipping surcharges in Shopify for heavy or bulky orders
Maximize the shipping profitability when selling heavy and oversized items with Shopify by implementing surcharges on every order that exceeds certain weight or size dimensions.
Restrict certain UPS services in Shopify
Tailor Shopify shipping with major carriers to specific services, and hide any services from UPS or any other carrier that hurt your bottom line.
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Advanced Shipping Rules for Shopify — FAQs
Popular questions answered
The advanced shipping rules and restrictions 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 the Calcurates app for Shopify with in-built shipping rules and shipping restrictions features.
It is possible to Hide (Restrict) specific shipping methods as well as Discount, Surcharge or Replace shipping rates of certain shipping methods using the Advanced Shipping Rules feature for Shopify.
Yes, each Advanced Shipping Rule can be applied to multiple shipping options, methods or carrier services that you set for your Shopify store with the Calcurates app.
In order to restrict a Shopify shipping method for delivery area, specific postcodes or range of postcodes, create a Segment with those postcodes in the Calcurates app for Shopify. Then create a Shipping Rules using this Segment and select “Hide" as the action for the Shipping Rule.
Yes, with the Calcurates Shopify app it is possible to apply Shipping Rules with all possible actions (surcharge, discount or replace) to carrier rates too. All the available carrier services are available for selection in the rule.
How to Configure Advanced Shipping Rules and Restrictions with Calcurates app for Shopify
Shipping Rules is a built-in feature in Calcurates Shopify app. Configure unlimited number of shipping rules and restrictions based on your own scenarios through an intuitive interface with the help of a step-by-step guide.
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Shipping Rules is a built-in feature in Calcurates Shopify app. Configure unlimited number of shipping rules and restrictions based on your own scenarios through an intuitive interface with the help of a step-by-step guide.
CHECK USER GUIDE →
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