It sure would be nice if I could create shipping profiles by product type instead of having to remember to place all items that I can ship via Media Mail INDIVIDUALLY in the Media Mail Shipping profile. Being able to do that by assigning product types like audio CD, audio record, audio cassettes, books, dvds etc. so that why when I create a NEW listing with one of those product types it would be automatically added to that shipping profile.
I’ve been complaining about this for 6+ years so I am NOT holding my breathe. Instead Shopify will provide me with some stupid AI bot powered garbage that I didn’t ask for.
Shopify still doesn’t support auto-assigning products to shipping profiles by product type, and I wouldn’t hold my breath either. But you can work around it today with Shopify Flow so new products get tagged and you can bulk-filter them into profiles.
Set up a Flow like this: Trigger: “Product created”. Action: “Add product tags”, tag: “media-mail”. You’ll want to eyeball new products periodically to make sure the tag is landing on the right ones, but this gets you most of the way there.
Then in Settings > Shipping and delivery, open your Media Mail shipping profile, click “Manage products”, and filter by the tag “media-mail” to bulk-add them. For your existing catalog, go to Products, filter by product type, select all, and bulk-add the “media-mail” tag so they show up in the same filter.
It’s an extra step compared to true automatic profile assignment, but it eliminates the problem of forgetting to add individual products. The Flow handles tagging on creation, and periodically you just filter by that tag in the shipping profile and add anything new. If you’re on a plan that supports Flow (Basic and above), this takes about two minutes to set up.
The one thing Shopify still forces you to do manually is the actual “add to shipping profile” part. There’s no Flow action for moving a product into a specific shipping profile. But the tagging automation at least makes sure nothing slips through the cracks, and the bulk filter makes adding them fast.
These are the peer to peer forums, shopify-staff don’t really show up here now adays.
For formal feature request contact a shopify support advisor DIRECTLY:
https://help.shopify.com
For now this has to be done through the delivery profiles api or an app from the app store.
With flow either a direct action if avialble, or using the admin-request action.
Or if on advanced plan then shopify flow can use the send-http-request when either a shopify endpoint isn’t fully supported by the admin-request action, or a third party api is involved.
This can also be easily be scripted with the mechanic app.
Reach out to get it setup for your business and get rid of the frustration.
On that front if you have time to burn on DIY, try having a go at generated an internal app to manage shipping profiles by product type
https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/shopify-admin/productivity-tools/sidekick/generate-apps
Iteration and occasional new builds with clearer req’s works better.