No Shipping Charges at Checkout Even Though Shipping Schedule Entered

Topic summary

A store owner has configured price-based shipping rates but notices no shipping charges appear at checkout during testing.

Key Details:

  • Shipping schedule is properly entered in settings
  • Store is in payment test mode and cannot process real orders yet
  • The shipping origin address matches the test customer’s shipping destination

Possible Explanation:
The owner suspects Shopify may be automatically waiving shipping charges when origin and destination addresses are identical, interpreting this as a local pickup scenario. This would explain why shipping fees aren’t calculating despite proper configuration.

Status: Unresolved - awaiting confirmation whether matching addresses cause this behavior or if another configuration issue exists.

Summarized with AI on November 19. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.

I have shipping set up by price.

However, when I go to checkout, no shipping is added in.

Don’t know why.

This store can’t accept real orders or real payments (still in payment test mode), but shipping charges should still be calculated and show up prior to submitting for payment - right?

See screenshots in attached file.

Just thought of this…

Would it because the shipping origin happens to be the same as the shipping address for the customer (which is me because it’s just a test order). Shopify noting that, so not bothering with shipping???