How can I stop checkout from requesting a delivery address for local pickup?

Shopify Discussion

Topic summary

Preventing checkout from collecting a delivery address for in-person pickup at a dance studio. The store is time-limited; orders are customized, packaged, and then sent as one bulk shipment to the studio for customer pickup.

They do not want to charge shipping. Shopify’s Local Pickup was considered but doesn’t fit because fulfillment happens at a different location than the pickup site.

Checkout currently requires an address, and Shopify support said this workflow isn’t supported natively. The poster seeks suggestions or workarounds to stop address collection while enabling local pickup and no shipping fees.

No solutions, decisions, or outcomes yet; the discussion remains open.

Key term: Local Pickup = customers collect orders at a designated location without shipping.

Summarized with AI on January 1. AI used: gpt-5.
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We are setting up a merch store for a local dance studio. The store is up for a limited time. We receive the orders, get them customized and package them. Then we are going to deliver all of the orders as one big shipment to the dance studio (who will notify the customers) so customers can pick them up.

How can I prevent checkout from asking for a delivery address? I looked at local pick up, but we will be fulfilling the orders at a separate location that is not the pick up location. I already talked to a Shopify admin and they said that their program is not set up for this…any suggestions?

P.S. We do not want to charge shipping for customers