How can I upload shipping rates using a CSV file?

Topic summary

Core Issue:
Merchants need to upload complex shipping rate matrices via CSV files, as manual entry is extremely time-consuming. Multiple users report having complicated rate structures from freight companies that require frequent updates.

Shopify’s Official Position:

  • No native CSV import/export functionality exists for shipping rates
  • Custom solutions are not currently possible through Shopify’s platform
  • Rates must be added manually following documented steps
  • Shopify staff collected feedback and .myshopify.com URLs to forward to development teams
  • No timeline provided for if/when this feature might be implemented

Community Requests:

  • Variant-level shipping profile specification (not just product-level)
  • CSV export capability for backup purposes before bulk changes
  • Multi-national/global shipping rate management

Third-Party Solutions:
Two apps emerged as workarounds:

  • CSR (CSV Shipping Rates) - allows uploading shipping rate tables via CSV
  • Toolify Shipping Rate Manager - recently launched app for bulk shipping rate management

Current Status:
Nearly 4 years since initial request with no official Shopify solution. Merchants express frustration and some consider switching platforms. Community relies on third-party apps to address this gap.

Summarized with AI on October 23. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.

Doesn’t look like it unfortunately.

To all those posting 3rd party apps as solutions for this issue also look further back previous ‘solutions’ that are no longer found as they have been abandoned. This function needs to be in the core of the product not a 3rd party app. In addition this being a 3rd party app if the api delays it will seriously impact conversion rate on the shop store at the most critical step of the sale. IT MUST be part of the core product.

Why is this so hard to develop it’s not some major feature - you have a table internally just make an interface to edit it / upload to a csv. I had posted previously an even more ideal option to just have rate of item + weight calc but clearly that’s never going to happen.

Dear shopify - our next renewal is up june 2023 and we normally update for 3 years the 2133 USD option. We are going to have to evaluate whether to update this time or move on. Not liking the absence of response or any sign of interest on this of late.