In Shipping profiles, merchants need a way to filter products by current profile and move them in bulk more efficiently. Products with variants should default to all variants selected when being reassigned to a new shipping profile. The current process requires expanding each product one by one and manually ensuring every variant is included, which is time-consuming and error-prone for large catalogs.
Operational impact
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: slows down catalog maintenance
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Risk
: variants can be accidentally left in the wrong profile
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Scale issue
: especially painful for stores with many SKUs and variant-heavy products
Copy your post and submit that to Shopify Support and get more real Staff eyes on it. They won’t fix it unless they get massive requests. So please give this to Support/Help Chat.
In the meantime, if you’re on the grow plan and up you can use Shopify Sidekick to create a Shipping Profile Manager app.
Hi @adshopcommunity
This is Vineet from Identixweb, a Shopify Development Agency.
I guess right now, Shopify’s shipping profile setup is mainly handled from Settings > Shipping and delivery, where merchants add products to a custom profile manually.
The missing part is better bulk management inside the admin.
This would save a lot of time for merchants with big catalogs and reduce the risk of variants being left in the wrong profile.
If you have Sidekick and are good with prompts, you can create a Shopping Profile solution.
Hi @adshopcommunity I Completely agree with this. The current workflow becomes surprisingly difficult once you’re managing large catalogs with multiple variant groups across different fulfillment rules.
The part about variants not defaulting to selected is probably the biggest risk factor. It’s very easy for one variant to stay attached to the wrong shipping profile without noticing until rates start behaving incorrectly at checkout.
Feels like Shopify optimized the feature for small catalogs, but operations at scale really need bulk reassignment logic and profile level filtering built into the admin.
Curious whether you’re managing this manually right now or through a third party workflow?
Completely agree with you on this one. The variant defaulting issue is the most painful part — one variant left in the wrong profile and your checkout rates are already wrong before you even notice it. Submitting this to Shopify Support with the exact operational impact like Maximus suggested is definitely the right move. Hope they pick this up soon.
hi! posting here is what sidekick suggested, is there a different/better way to get this directly to support?
I’m managing this manually, and I’m on the basic plan so I can’t build a separate workflow. I’m an artist, not yet a heavy shopify user, but I’d like to learn how to grow to need those upper tier shopify plans.
Honestly, that’s probably the best stage to learn things properly because you can still keep the operation simple before scaling adds complexity.
A lot of merchants wait until problems become expensive before improving workflows. Even basic habits around inventory structure, shipping profiles, and product organization make a huge difference later when the catalog grows.
The good thing is Shopify’s lower plans can still take you pretty far if the store foundation is set up cleanly from the beginning.
What kind of art products are you mainly selling right now?
I’m an artist that sells my original designs on dishwasher safe vinyl stickers, crack/peel resistant graphic t-shirts, and such. I do crazy sales in person. I’m slammed the whole day at markets, and am working on trying to make a space for myself online.