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 and Priority Shipping options during checkout, as long as the chosen Print Provider offers these options.

Additionally, the Printify Shipping Calculator is the only solution that supports the use of Shopify package dimensions for your non-Printify products. This helps ensure that the dimensions of these products do not inaccurately affect the calculated weight of Printify items, which can otherwise lead to artificially inflated shipping rates for your customers.

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.

If your other fulfillment apps don’t support split shipping, you can use the “Import Shopify zones” option to bring in existing flat shipping rates for any non-Printify products you may have.

Step 3: Adjust your Shopify shipping settings

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

To enable split shipping (if it’s not already enabled), click Manage under the Split shipping section.

Click on General shipping rates, then locate the Fulfillment location section associated with the Printify app. From there, delete all listed zones. This action will transition your Printify products from using shipping profiles to on-the-fly calculated shipping rates (Printify Shipping Calculator).

Next, click on Add shipping zone to create a new zone in the same shipping profile, with all of the countries selected. You can give this zone any name (e.g., Zone 1).

Then, click Add rate and select “Use carrier or app to calculate rates.” Choose Printify from the drop-down menu, check the box for Standard, and click Done.

Step 4: Set “General Profile” as the default shipping profile in Printify

Go to your Shipping profiles settings in Printify and select “General Profile” as the default shipping profile. This means that this option will be automatically selected when you will 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.