The brands we carry come in different sizes, everything from pints to 55-gallon drums. All of the smaller-sized variants (typically gallon-sized and under) qualify for free shipping. We have already set up a custom shipping profile for those items.
Ideally, would like to create a badge of some sort that would be applied at the corner of the variant image and, obviously, only to the images of smaller products which qualify for the free shipping.
I’ve tried a few trust badge apps so far that cannot accomplish this task at the variant level. These apps install the free shipping badge to all product variants regardless of which shipping profile they exist in.
I am wondering if there is a way to set this up with another app or perhaps by using a dynamic source. I see some stores accomplish this by adding “free shipping” text to the variant selector buttons. Stylistically this isn’t ideal and I am unsure as to whether this would negatively affect SEO.
I am using the Stiletto Theme by Fluorescent Designs Inc.
You can use a variant metafield to specify if the said variant qualify for the free shipping. This use that metafield to hide and show the free shipping badge. Unfortunately, this will be a little tricky process. I would recommend hiring a developer to do so.
You may want to check out the app Variant Badges — it offers functionality to add ‘Hot’, ‘New’, ‘Sale’ or ‘Popular’ badges to product variants, which seems aligned with what you’re looking for.
The way to go is to manage it with variant metafields or variant tags that your theme can read, not a generic badge app. Create a boolean metafield named something like ‘Free Shipping Eligible’ for the variants that qualify, then customize your product gallery or variant image snippet in Stiletto to display a corner badge if the selected variant has that boolean set to true. This means that badges are accurate at the variant level and are adjusted as shoppers switch between sizes. Overlays with text in selectors do work, but image badges tend to convert better visually. It won’t have an impact on SEO because variant button text has little significance for searches.