I’m trying to determine shipping package sizes. Let’s say I have a medium box size and large box size. I can only find a that one package size can be used a checkout using the option “This package is used to calculate shipping rates at checkout.” My concern is that some larger items will require a l…

I’ve begun to have issues with this. My default box must be big enough for my biggest products, lest I lose much shipping money. But, then, for my tiny products, my clients get way over-charged massive amounts for the same, oversized default box. (I’ve had to refund some clients & lost money on oth…

Throwing my name into the convo - not sure what has happened to the shipping but now it’s off completely. I’m losing sales AND I have to give shipping refunds to the customers that are overcharged way too often now. To NOT consider the SIZE of the items to be shipped is USELESS. To tell us to go g…

Exactly! Absolutely misleading offering. I used to see custom dimensions for specific products and now they are gone.

Hi @Dirk , I’m new to Shopify and hope to launch soon with a single product. I expect most customers will buy only one unit of the product, but I will almost certainly also have some customers purchasing several. It seems like Shopify will use my default package for all orders, which will be correc…

Dirk, while you offer an answer to the issue, you don’t really back it up with any justification. You just confirm what most Shopify customers found through brute force after slamming their heads against the wall asking why, why, why. I mean, really, it’s a basic assumption that any vendor that woul…

Let us know what you come up with! Adding a handling fee to cover the costs of an app - for something so basic - is unfair to the customers. They are already paying for the increased shipping costs over the past couple of years. Besides the fact that a lot of time, the shipping costs will be more t…

This is NOT an “accepted solution” by any means. To tell us to go get an app to do something so BASIC is RIDICULOUS. ICYMI - I switched to Shopify from Go Daddy’s Quick Shopping Cart that I used since 2006. THEIR shipping calculator had taken into account the SIZE and weight of the wrapped items in…

Hey @Dirk , Any timeline on when Shopify will support different package sizes natively? Almost every other ecommerce provider supports different package sizes without charging for an extra add-on app, and based on the number of support topics here related to package sizes, this is a very highly req…

@Dirk , For example, Anders reported that this feature was requested 5 years ago here: https://community.shopify.com/c/payments-shipping-and/package-sizing/m-p/463094/highlight/true#M21722 Then LuLu copy/pasted the same answer here in 2019: https://community.shopify.com/post/558760 And then a yea…

How can I set up different package sizes for shipping calculations?

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Hey Obathdbody. You might consider sticking around. I was really rethinking it and there might be somethings that balance out the costs. See my response above.

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How can I set up different package sizes for shipping calculations?

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