TLDR - Printify provides accurate shipping profiles for all products and variants of products but a Shopify limit of 100 shipping profiles makes implementing them impossible, unless you have a very limited number of store items.
I first reached out to support several times. Everyone was super polite and effortful, but we couldn’t resolve this. Each one ended with the dreaded “we’ll take it as a suggestion”. All tolerated my annoying self quite well and I appreciate that.
Relevant facts:
Shopify limits us to 99 custom shipping profiles (100 total including general profile).
Variants from Printify each become a profile (e.g. 4 sizes of art canvas get one profile each)
A store with 100+ total product-variant combinations from Printify can’t exist (or please tell me I’m wrong) on Shopify while retaining accurate shipping costs.
Shopify claims there would be some sort of significant technological burden of allowing more profiles
Shopify suggests a shipping app might help, but could not specify one that would resolve
I don’t have any clue how to complete setting up my store here as of right now
I emailed several app developers who offer shipping apps that sound like they might possibly have a way to manage this - I will post here if one has a solution
Ok now the rambling and opinionated part for those interested:
I am brand new here, hoping to expand a moderately successful etsy store into my own website. I sell my own art on various products fulfilled through printify. I don’t believe there is a real burden to additional database entries for additional profiles, so I think they should just increase the limit to accommodate accurate shipping profiles at the variant level. Involving an app seems like maybe the way that is preferred so that it generates more revenue (basic feature behind paywall game), but even that cynical thought doesn’t make it make sense to me since I don’t think there is actually an app for this. I am at that point I want to give up, but hoping that’s not necessary.
I am somewhat losing my mind over this because I think it seems like an obvious need, easily resolved by allowing more profiles, but they just won’t do it.
I am open to being wrong and know that not everyone needs what I need, and that any change to a system of this size can’t be instantaneous.
I am having the same exact issue and I am trying to figure out how to consolidate the profiles or just scrap it all too. There is the shopify calculator but you need to be on the advanced plan and my store is not big enough to support a $299 a month plan.
I too am a small store. The fact that we are both small stores and easily go over this limit underscores what an obvious oversight it is.
It’s frustrating because increasing the profiles allowed would be extremely easy for them to do. It’s probably just some person in UX who doesn’t know how things work, not wanting the list of profiles to be too large to manage, or something like that.
The fairly obvious solution would be increasing that maximum profiles, paginating them for viewing, and making shopify a much better solution for printify users. All of the work has been done by printify, and it just needs to be allowed to transfer in. Etsy does this seamlessly and at no extra cost, though they have different and significant weaknesses so I am not saying they are perfect.
For the $299/mo plan it also sounds like it would go from automatic and easy (if they would increase the limit) to possible but very time consuming and expensive.
I am having the exact same issue and haven’t found a solution yet. I have been building an app in the backend and have downloaded all of the blueprint data including production and shipping costs but calculating and creating shipping profiles and managing them across printify and Shopify is complicated and I still haven’t wrapped my head around all of it. I also wish they would just up the limit so I don’t have to deal with this pain. If I find a decent solution I will share here but would also love to hear if someone finds something else.
I have the same problem here, and I think the only solution is to offer free shipping on certain products and embed the shipping price in the product price…constantly keeping an eye on shipping rates. Annoying!
after many chats with support, it appears the only option is to upgrade to a higher level tiered account to allow the CCS option. they say their devs are working on a solution, and you may ask to be added to the list of people who are requesting this feature when chatting w agents. Do you use custom Shipping profiles to do this?