Is there a way for split shipping to only apply to a single shipping profile?

Payments + Shipping & Fulfilment
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My shop sells keychains, stickers, prints, and a few other things. Whenever someone buys a sticker and a keychain, I don’t want the shipping costs to combine and say they are shipping separately, as I can just add the stickers to the keychain package and ship them together. But, when someone buys a keychain and a print, I need them to have split shipping, as I can’t ship prints with the keychains, and I have to ship them separately. Is there any way for the split shipping to only apply to specific shipping profiles rather than all of them?? And I don’t want to remove the sticker shipping profile entirely, as they are much cheaper for me to ship, and it provides a more affordable option for international buyers who would typically be put off by the hefty shipping costs for my other items.

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You can definitely manage this using separate shipping profiles in Shopify. it just takes a bit of setup.

Here’s what you can try:

  1. Create different shipping profiles for each product type (e.g., one for keychains/prints, another for stickers).

  2. In each profile, set your preferred shipping rates and zones.

  3. Then, under Settings → Shipping and delivery → Combine shipping rates, you can control how rates are combined at checkout.

If you don’t want Shopify to add up rates from both profiles (which causes the higher total), you can consider using a custom app or flat combined rate instead.

if you need help with that, just text me back

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Shopify’s native shipping has a limitation, shipping rates from different profiles are always added together. This means if stickers and keychains are in separate profiles, Shopify will charge for both, even if you ship them together. Prints, which must always ship separately, are fine in their own profile, but conditional combined shipping isn’t possible natively.

A practical way to handle this is by using a shipping solution that allows more flexible rules. You can try out PluginHive’s Multi Carrier Shipping Label app for the same. It can help you combine shipments selectively, split others when needed, and keep international shipping for stickers affordable.

This approach gives full control over shipping costs and product combinations without overcharging customers.

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Hey @42nerdtasticpl, that’s been happening to a few shops lately. When a handling fee doesn’t attach to UPS Ground but works for USPS, it’s usually Shopify’s carrier-calculated rates glitching, UPS occasionally ignores the markup setting while USPS doesn’t.

Try this:

  • Go to Settings → Shipping and delivery → Carrier accounts, click into UPS, and make sure your handling fee is still listed.

  • Remove and re-add the markup, then save.

  • Test a checkout using UPS Ground. If it still skips the fee, contact Shopify Support, they can refresh your carrier connection on the backend.

And once that’s sorted, you might want to use a post-purchase tracking tool like ParcelPanel Order Tracking to make sure customers always get accurate shipping updates even when rate issues pop up.

Hope this helps a bit! If it does, feel free to mark it as a solution so others can find it too :slightly_smiling_face: