Shopify merchants are seeking ways to export detailed shipping data—including box dimensions, actual weight, and costs paid—for accurate profit tracking and tax accounting. This is particularly challenging for stores offering free shipping promotions, as third-party profit-tracking apps only see $0 customer charges rather than actual merchant costs.
Current Workarounds:
Major Limitations:
Shopify’s Response:
Two new native reports were introduced: “Shipping Labels” and “Shipping Labels Over Time,” showing label costs per order and average costs. However, these don’t capture third-party fulfillment (like ShipStation) or post-purchase carrier adjustments.
Merchants continue requesting this as a standard built-in feature rather than requiring paid third-party solutions or manual workarounds.
Adding my support to this as well – it’d really help me out to be able to pull the actual shipping cost I paid for “free shipping” orders. I can’t get an accurate profit without that number, unless I go order by order which. . .I’m not going to do.
Please please add this!