Why are shipping rates not showing up at checkout?

Topic summary

  • Shipping rates failed to appear at checkout because products were incorrectly treated as digital items.
  • Root cause: the “is a physical product” flag was not set to true, so Shopify did not calculate shipping.
  • Fix: export the product listings and set the “is a physical product” value to true, then re-import.
  • Outcome: shipping rates appeared after the correction; issue resolved.
Summarized with AI on December 30. AI used: gpt-5.

Hi. I have a website called samilahome.com but none of the set shipping rates are appearing. Wondering if anyone has an idea what the cause of this could be?

Thanks.

Thankyou mate. The issue was that I needed to export the listing and set the value to ‘true’ for is a physical product. Shopify thought all the products were digital.