Setting Up Shopify Carrier Calculated Shipping Rates

Shopify merchants can use their own accounts with a shipping carrier to display carrier shipping rates to customers at the checkout.

All you need to do for that is to follow the steps below.

1. Get Shopiy Carrier Calculated Shipping Rates enabled for your store
2. Install Third Party Shipping app(s) on your Shopify store
3. Enable the Shopify app(s)
4. Validate product weight
5. Verify Shipper Address
6. Configure the Shipping App to get Shopify Checkout Rates

1. Choose the Shopify plan supporting Carrier Calculated Shipping Rates

To connect your own shipping carrier accounts to Shopify, you need to have the carrier-calculated shipping feature on your store’s Shopify subscription plan. This feature is included in the Shopify Plan, Advanced Shopify Plan and Shopify Plus Plan. If you’re on the Shopify plan, then you can add this feature for $0/month if you switch to yearly billing or you can add it for $20/month a-la-carte by contacting Shopify.

2. Install Third-Party Shipping app(s) on your Shopify store

By default Shopify offers shipping solutions for certain carriers, however, if you want to use a complete shipping solution covering third-party calculated shipping rates, labels, tracking & other shipping specificities like LTL Freight Shipping, scheduling pickups, printing manifests, custom documents, HazMat Shipping you can use any of the following Shopify Apps.

• FedEx Ship, Rate & Track app
• Multi-Carrier Shipping Label app
• Australia Post app

3. Enable the Shopify app(s)

Now enable the app for your Shopify Shipping Profile. Head over to Shopify Settings > Shipping & Delivery:

Click on Manage Rates

Select the appropriate Shipping Zone, click on Add Rates as shown : 

After this choose Use carrier or app to calculate rates & select the app for which you want to fetch rates as shown below:

4. Validate product weight

Head over to the Product section and select your products. Now scroll down to check the weight under Shipping as shown below: 

5. Verify Shipper Address

Click on Settings & verify whether the shipper address is correct, as shown below:

6. Configure the Shipping App to get Shopify Checkout Rates

To get FedEx real-time rates on checkout 

Click on the Rates & under Carrier Services enable the FedEx Shipping Services for which you want to display the shipping rates at the checkout:

After enabling it, you can see the FedEx shipping rates at Shopify checkout as shown below.

Follow the link to configure the app correctly within your Shopify store – FedEx Ship Rate & Track Setup

To get Australia Post real-time rates on checkout 

Click on the Rates & under Carrier Services enable the Australia Post Shipping Services for which you want to display the shipping rates at the checkout:

After enabling you will be able to see the Australia Post shipping rates at Shopify checkout as shown below.

Follow the link to configure the app correctly within your Shopify store – Australia Post setup

To Get Real-Time rates with Multi-Carrier Shipping Label App

To get Real-Time rates with the Shopify Multi-Carrier Shipping Label App you need to verify the carrier service list that you want to display at the checkout by visiting App Setting> Shipping Rates> Rate Automation

After the verification is successfully completed you will be able to see the shipping rates at the checkout:

If you have enabled the Shopify carrier-calculated shipping rates after you have installed the app, you need to register it under the app store settings:

Follow the link to configure the app correctly within your Shopify store – Multi-Carrier Shipping Label App Setup.