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…

Hey, @eharrington5 You are correct! The default package size in Shopify is going to be used in all calculated shipping rates at checkout for your customers. In the case you have a variety of packaging sizing, I recommend using a third-party app to accomplish this. An app called Boxify will allow yo…

I ran into this issue multiple times. I’ve lost money on some of my bigger items because I cannot add dimensions to different products.

Are you kidding me? We need an app for an account that we pay monthly that allows for monthly products so we can price different packaging sizes? Unbelievable.

I think I will be switching also

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…

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

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migpics February 21, 2023, 7:36pm 5

Yeah this is crap. We’re switching over to something else. By the time you end up adding all these 3rd party add ons your overhead with this thing is awful.

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

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