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Shipping rules

Show each customer the right delivery options at the right price. Playwright Checkout Rules shipping rules hide, rename, reorder, discount and cap the shipping rates Shopify offers at checkout.

Shipping templates

Choosing rates

Every shipping template has a Rates to Change setting. Choose:

All
Every shipping rate.
Rate Name
Rates whose name does (or doesn’t) match, contain, start with or end with what you enter, without regard to capital letters. Use the name customers see at checkout.
Rate Code
Rates by the code a carrier or shipping app gives them.
Rate Price
Rates above or below a price.
Rate Discounted
Rates an earlier shipping rule did or didn’t discount.
Multi-Select
Up to three of these, where all or any must match.

Rate Source isn’t available on Shopify Functions. Local pickup options are never changed.

Hide rates

Hide Shipping Rate hides the selected rates when its conditions match. Hide Shipping Rates for PO Boxes does the same for PO box addresses.

Rename rates

Change Name gives the selected rates a new name, and Find and Replace in Name replaces text in their names (exactly as typed, capital letters included).

  • Shopify always shows the carrier’s name before a renamed rate.
  • Later rules see the new name.
  • A name that would be longer than 255 characters isn’t changed.

Reorder rates

Reorder Rates moves the rates you list into your order, matching whole names without regard to capital letters. Rates you don’t list keep their order.

Discount and cap rates

Shipping Discount takes a percentage or a fixed amount off each selected rate; 100% is free shipping. Cap Shipping Rates lowers any selected rate above a cap to the cap. Enter the cap in cents: 499 is $4.99.

  • Both show at checkout as a shipping discount.
  • Shopify gives an order one shipping discount, so “Playwright: shipping discounts” doesn’t combine with your other shipping discounts. It does combine with product and order discounts.
  • Shipping discounts can check discount codes that exist in Shopify. See Codes in shipping rules.

What Shopify doesn’t allow

  • Renamed rates keep the carrier’s name in front.
  • One shipping discount per order.
  • Shipping rules can’t see the rate’s source, SKUs, gift cards, sale prices, subscriptions, or the discounts your line item rules gave. Shipping discounts also can’t use vendor or language conditions. See Which rules can use each condition.
  • Shipping option rules can’t see discount codes.