Updates to advanced shipping costs

This article outlines the features being deprecated or migrated to an API only path in the advanced shipping settings, to build a simpler and user friendly experience.

• Multiple shipping rates within one shipping service
• Subtables

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Multiple shipping rates within one shipping service

Shipping labels assign different shipping settings to a specific group of products, such as “heavy products” or “products eligible for free shipping”. This option will be applied to the entire shipping service.

With this launch, multiple shipping rates (for example, one rate for the “free shipping” label and another for the rest of the products) will be split into multiple shipping services.

Single shipping rate per service

If you’ve set up only one shipping rate per shipping service, the only difference in the migrated services is how it’s displayed. There will be no other impact.

Multiple shipping rates per service

If you have multiple shipping rates within a single shipping service, your shipping rates will be automatically split into multiple shipping services. If you exceed 20 shipping rates per country, your services won’t be auto-migrated.

• 20 or fewer shipping rates per country: Multiple shipping rates will be split into different shipping services.
• Number of shipping rates per country exceeds 20: Your service won’t be migrated if you’ve exceeded 20 shipping services per country after the shipping rates are split. When notified, you’ll be required to edit your shipping services and reduce the number of shipping services or rates.

Delete exceeding shipping services using the below steps:

1. In your Merchant Center, in the top right corner, click the tools and settings  icon.
2. Under “Tools”, click Shipping and returns.
3. From the “Your shipping services” card, select the shipping services that you want to delete.
4. Click the delete icon .

Delete exceeding shipping rates using the below steps:

1. In your Merchant Center, in the top right corner, click the tools and settings  icon.
2. Under “Tools”, click Shipping and returns.
3. From the “Your shipping services” card, click the shipping services that you want to edit.
4. Click the pencil icon  next to "Cost".
5. Select the shipping rate that you want to delete.
6. Click the delete icon .

If you don’t take necessary action by 30 September, 2023, this setting will no longer be editable nor viewable, and future changes to it would require you to either delete this shipping service and create a new one or use the Shopping Content API to manage shipping services.

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Subtables

A shipping rate table can be configured using two dimensions, such as “destination” and “weight.” However, you may add a third or fourth dimension, such as “number of items,” by linking a subtable.

This feature will be removed from advanced cost settings and become API-only. When notified, you’ll be required to remove the subtables assigned to your shipping services.

Delete subtables using the below steps:

1. In your Merchant Center, on the top right corner, click on the tools and settings  icon.
2. Under “Tools”, click Shipping and returns.
3. From the “Your shipping services” card, select the shipping services that you want to edit.
4. Click the pencil icon  next to "Cost”.
5. From the “Shipping Rates” card, click the shipping rate that uses a subtable.
6. In the “Shipping rate table” card, find the cell that uses a subtable and select an alternative option.
7. Click on the delete icon in the “Linked subtables” card.

If you don’t take necessary action by 30 September, 2023, this setting will no longer be editable nor viewable, and future changes to it would require you to either delete this shipping service and create a new one or use the the Shopping Content API to manage shipping services.

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Related links

• About shipping settings
• Set up shipping settings