How can I set up the Printify Shipping Calculator for Shopify?

The Printify Shipping Calculator for Shopify offers a seamless shipping solution, automatically applying the accurate shipping rate to your customer’s shopping cart.

Unlike the other shipping setup options, the Shipping Calculator allows your customers to easily choose between Standard, Economy and Priority Shipping options during checkout, as long as the chosen Print Provider offers these options.

To enable Shipping Calculator, you must have one of the following: 

• A Shopify Growth plan (if you add the carrier-calculated shipping feature for a monthly fee or switch from monthly to yearly billing)
• An Advanced Shopify plan
• A Shopify Plus plan

Step 1: Request carrier-calculated rates from Shopify

Start by reaching out to Shopify to request the activation of the carrier-calculated rates feature for your user account if you are using the Shopify Growth plan. This feature is available for a monthly fee or if you switch from monthly to yearly billing.

For users with the Advanced Shopify or Shopify Plus plan, this feature is automatically enabled and does not require a separate request.

Step 2: Enable the Shipping Calculator in Printify

Log in to your Printify account, then navigate to your Store settings and click on Shipping calculator. Check the box next to Enable the Printify Shipping Calculator for Shopify checkout.

Step 3: Enable split shipping

In your Shopify account, go to Settings → Shipping and delivery.

To enable split shipping (if it’s not already enabled), click on split shipping.

Step 4: Set up the general profile

Click on General profile, all products not assigned to other shipping profiles will have their rates set here.

If there's no zones or rates for Printify location yet, click Start shipping and go to Step 5.

If there's existing shipping zones and rates for Printify, delete them.

Next, click on Add shipping zone to create a new zone in the same shipping profile.

Step 5: Set up the shipping zone and rates

You can select all countries and regions you'd like to ship to for this zone, our calculator will determine the rates based on the delivery address. Enter a zone name like "All countries".

Then, click Add shipping option, select “Carrier or app calculated”, choose Printify from the drop-down menu, and click Done.

Step 6: Delete your other Printify shipping profiles or reassign products in bulk

Now your General profile should display calculated rates for Printify products in it. If your existing Printify products are assigned to specific profiles, delete those profiles. They'll be automatically assigned to the General profile.

You can also select all of your products in My Products and assign them to “General profile” in bulk with Edit shipping, followed by republishing.

Step 7: Set “General profile” as the default shipping profile in Printify

Go to your Publishing preferences in Printify and select “General profile” as the default shipping profile. This means that this option will be automatically selected when you publish Printify products to your Shopify store.

Your store’s shipping is now set up, and you can start making sales. If you need some help, feel free to get in touch with our Support Team.