Fixed Shipping Rates in Subscriptions for Shopify Checkout

Subscriptions for Shopify Checkout gives you the ability to define fixed shipping rates by country. You can create one shipping rate for customers located in your local country, another rate for the rest of the world, or create separate rates for each individual country you serve.

This article outlines some important considerations as well as the functionality and setup of fixed shipping rates in Bold Subscriptions.

Functionality

When creating fixed shipping rates in Bold Subscriptions, you can apply your new rates in your choice of the following ways:

• Only new subscriptions. When using this option, only your new subscribers will receive the new rate. Your existing subscribers will keep the rates they originally signed up under until an update is made to their subscription. Updates include things such as shipping information updates or product updates (adding, swapping, and more).
• All subscriptions. This option updates your existing subscriber's rates and applies the new rate to all new subscribers.

If a shipping rate is not defined for a particular country within Bold Subscriptions, your Shopify shipping rates will be used.

Customer view

If an order has both a one-time purchase and a subscription product together, your customer will see two rates in the checkout. One for the one-time purchase product, and one for the subscription product.

Example

In this example, the one-time purchase product is using your default rates created in Shopify. The subscription product is eligible for a fixed shipping rate for the rest of the world (ROTW).

Important considerations

• Only one fixed shipping rate can be defined per country.
• When defining a fixed shipping rate within Bold Subscriptions, a corresponding delivery profile is created within Shopify. This profile is only accessible through Shopify's APIs. To ensure your fixed shipping rates function properly it's important that these clearly marked profiles are not edited when using Shopify's Shipping APIs.

Setup

1. From within Bold Subscriptions, navigate to Settings > General settings.
2. Enable Use a fixed shipping rate by sliding the toggle to the right.

   

3. Select a shipping country.
4. Enter a name for this shipping zone.

   Note: Each name should be unique.

5. Enter a rate.

   

6. Optional: Add more fixed rates by clicking Add another fixed rate.
7. Under Apply fixed shipping rates to, select one of the following options:
   1. Only new subscriptions
   2. All subscriptions

      Note: Selecting this option will apply your fixed shipping rates to your existing subscriber's orders.

      1. Wait for the sync to complete.
      2. Optional: Select Download Report.
8. Select Save.