Shipping Plus Setup

Overview

Shipping Plus configures Corso as a Shopify Carrier Calculated Shipping Service. This allows Corso to provide rates with advanced functionality not available with standard Shopify rates.

It’s easy to get setup. Let’s help you get started.

Make Sure You Are on a Supported Shopify Plan

The availability of Corso as a third-party carrier-calculated shipping depends on your store’s plan:

Shopify Plus: Available and included in plan.
Shopify Advanced: Available and included in plan.
Shopify Grow: Available for an additional monthly fee if your store is on a monthly subscription plan, or included in an annual billing plan.
All other plans: Not available.

Understanding How Shopify Rates Work

Rates are provided to your customers at checkout based upon a variety of factors including geo zone, fulfilment location, shipping profile, and rate conditions.

While there are more advanced settings than this, let’s review what each of these are and how they impact your rates.
The factors below are the priority of what Shopify looks at to provide rates to your customer.

1. Shipping Profiles

First on the list is shipping profiles. You can set up independent shipping profiles in Shopify which are typically used to offer rates specific to a product line. Shopify profiles allow you to select which products will be impacted and then within that profile, you are able to independently set up your fulfillment locations, shipping zones, and rates.

Be aware that when a cart has products from different shipping profiles, this is considered a multi-shipment cart and Shopify has unique functionality related to multi-shipments that most merchants are not aware of.

[Learn more about multi-shipment]

2. Fulfilment Location

You set up shipping rates according to your fulfillment locations in Shopify. With each of the locations you fulfill from, you can determine shipping zones per each fulfillment location or have multiple fulfillment locations shipping to the same shipping zone.

In this example, we just have one fulfillment location that is going to be shipping all of our domestic orders.

Multi-shipments also apply to fulfilment locations. Typically Shopify will try to fulfill the order from the same location if inventory is available in that location. For carts with multiple products and if inventory must be used from multiple locations, then Shopify will consider the cart to be a multi-shipment.

[Learn more about multi-shipment]

3. Shipping Zone / Geo Zone

Rates are set up by geo zones which includes a combination of both countries and states/provinces. These zones can be configured in each of your shipping profiles.

Typically brands will have unique zones for domestic rates versus international rates and sometimes these can get more granular for states such as Hawaii, Alaska, outlying islands, etc.

Countries may also have their own unique geo zones depending on where you sell products and how you ship to those countries.

You’ll notice how Corso has automatically been added as a rate provider to any of your existing shipping zones. We will cover what this means later in this article.

4. Rates & Conditions

Rates correspond to specific shipping zones. Basic Shopify rates can be set up directly in Shopify or you can get your rates from a 3rd party like Corso for more advanced functionality.

In the example below, this is a basic setup for a standard shipping option with free shipping over $100.

Import Your Geo Zones & Rates & Conditions

The easiest way to get started with Shipping Plus is to sync your geo zones and rates to Corso. By clicking the Shopify button we will import the shipping zones and corresponding rates and conditions in any of your shipping profiles.

Depending on how complex your rates configuration is inside of Shopify, it may create a lot of geo zones and rates. But for a basic setup based on the Shopify rates from this example, it might look something like this.

Shipping Plus Rates

By default, Corso creates rates that are “Plus” enabled. This means that we are marking up the existing rate with a dynamic price. Typically this dynamic price is used for services such as shipping protection, free returns, or sustainable shipping.

You can know if a rate is “Plus” enabled by the plus icon next to the rate.

Show Original Rate

Rather than show a rate from Shopify, you can choose to let Corso display the “original rate”. When this toggle is enabled, then both rates will display for the customer: the rate WITHOUT the additional shipping plus price & the rate WITH the additional shipping plus price.

Rates that are configured to show the original rate will be indicated by the eyeball icon.

The customer would see two rates (the Plus rate and the original rate) as shown here:

Turning On Shipping Plus

You are now just a few clicks away from offering rates marked up with Shipping Plus:

Enable a Shipping Geo Zone
- You can set up as many geo zones you want with any configuration of rates to make things easy to enable and disable.
- To start offering rates for a specific zone, simply enable the shipping geo zone with the toggle.
Turn On Shipping Plus
- Turn on Shipping Plus at the top of the page.
- Once Shipping Plus is on, then Shipping Plus rates will immediately start being offered to your customers alongside the rates you have set up in Shopify.

Advanced Shipping Plus Scenarios

Now that Shipping Plus is turned on, let’s explore more advanced scenarios and functionality that can be enabled in addition to some of the unique ways of how Shopify handles rates.

Let’s start off with how Shopify merges rates from rate providers like Corso and Shopify rates.