Setting up shipping profiles

Ashipping profileis 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.

Considerations for setting up shipping profiles

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

• Make sure that you're familiar withshipping zonesandshipping 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结合航运速度结账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 theProductsandManage settingsstaff permissions.

Set up your general shipping profile

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

2. In theGeneral shipping ratessection, clickManage.

3. In theShipping originssection, make any changes to your locations. For more information, refer toManaging your fulfillment locations.

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

   1. In theShipping zonessection, clickCreate zone.
   2. Name the shipping zone.
   3. Select the countries or regions that are part of the zone, and then clickDone.
   4. For each shipping rate you want in the zone, clickAdd rate, choose the rate's details, and then clickDone.

5. ClickSave.

Create a custom shipping profile

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

2. In theCustom shipping ratessection, clickCreate new profile.

3. Enter a name for the profile.

4. In theProductssection, clickAdd products, and then add products to the shipping profile.

5. In theShipping originssection, make any changes to your locations. For more information, refer toManaging your fulfillment locations.

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

   1. In theShipping zonessection, clickCreate zone.
   2. Name the shipping zone.
   3. Select the countries or regions that are part of the zone, and then clickDone.
   4. For each shipping rate you want in the zone, clickAdd rate, choose the rate's details, and then clickDone.

7. ClickSave.