What’s New at Shopify?

Collective retailers have been upgraded to a new, simplified carrier shipping profile. This new profile allows you to live-fetch your suppliers’ shipping rates, and add them to your customers' orders directly at checkout.

Suppliers can now set flat shipping rates or calculated shipping rates for different products through their price lists. Unlike flat rates, calculated shipping rates use rules configured by the supplier to calculate shipping costs live at checkout. For example, suppliers could now offer you a “free shipping for orders over” rate, which you could pass on to customers to incentivize higher average order values, and lower cart abandonment.

Retailers still retain control over which shipping rates show to customers at checkout, and can customize these using custom shipping profiles, or free shipping discounts.