FAQ

Intuitive Shipping lets you control how your shipping is calculated at checkout. Our extensive rules-based Condition system lets you decide when shipping rates should appear to your customer.

Nope! You can use Intuitive Shipping indefinitely – for FREE – as long as you’re in Testing Mode. Take as much time as you need to get your setups just right!

To use Intuitive Shipping in a live setting, you will need to activate your account and begin your 14-day FREE trial.

At a minimum, you need at least one (1) Shipping Scenario with at least one (1) Shipping Method

You will also need to ensure that Shopify’s Carrier Calculated Rates feature is enabled in your Shopify settings.

The Activity Dashboard is the first thing you see when you finish installing Intuitive Shipping. It’s also your starting point each time you return to the app.

All of your recent shipping calculation activities are displayed on the Activity Dashboard. And it’s where you’ll find banners with important reminders and notifications about the app.

The Billing Limit is a Shopify requirement for all third-party apps. This is the maximum amount of overage charges you can be billed each month. It is separate from your regular monthly billing amount. Learn more about your Billing Limit here or below, in the Billing section of this FAQ page.

Intuitive Shipping is an advanced shipping calculator that helps you control how shipping rates are calculated at checkout. Fulfillment support and shipping labels are available directly through Shopify or through a fulfillment app.

Shopify’s Shipping Profiles provide merchants with more flexibility and customization when calculating shipping rates. Intuitive Shipping can do everything that Profiles were intended to do, and much more! We strongly recommend that you use only one (1) Shipping Profile with Intuitive Shipping. Learn more about how Intuitive Shipping works with Shipping Profiles here.

Shopify’s Locations feature lets merchants set up multiple shipping origin locations to make it easier to manage inventory and local deliveries. While there are a few exceptions, we generally advise against using Locations with Intuitive Shipping as it may result in calculation errors such as duplicated or missing rates.

With Intuitive Shipping, you can create Live Rate Shipping Methods with custom shipping origin locations.

Intuitive Shipping syncs product information from your Shopify Product settings. When you first install Intuitive Shipping, your current products will automatically be synced with Intuitive Shipping. While you’re in Testing Mode, be sure to re-sync your products with Intuitive Shipping each time you add or make changes to products.

Once you’ve activated your account, product and Collection syncing will be done automatically.

You will need to add product dimensions to Intuitive Shipping if you are using the SmartBoxing™ packing method or calculating shipping based on volume. Click here to learn how to add dimensions to a single product, and here to add dimensions to multiple products.

Product weights are required if you are using live rates. Product weights will be pulled from Shopify Products, or you can enter product weights into Intuitive Shipping when you add dimensions. If the product weight in Intuitive Shipping differs from Shopify, Intuitive Shipping will supersede your Shopify product weight.

We currently support these carriers:

Australia Post eParcel
Australia Post Parcel
Canada Post
Canpar
DHL eCommerce
DHL Express
Easyship
eShipper
FedEx
FedEx Freight LTL
Purolator
United States Postal Service (USPS)
UPS

Yes! As a verified app on the Shopify app store, Intuitive Shipping is in full compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) law. To learn how, click here.

Absolutely. Take a tour of Intuitive Shipping with one of our amazing team members. Book your appointment here.

You can use Intuitive Shipping in Testing Mode indefinitely, for free. Once everything is set up and working the way you want it to, simply activate your account to begin your 14-Day FREE Trial.

Nope! You can use Testing Mode for as long as you like. Your 14-Day FREE Trial will begin after you activate your account.

You can easily test all of your Intuitive Shipping Scenarios without making them visible by using the customer name ‘Intuitive Shipping’ at checkout. Learn more about testing here.

Be sure you have the Carrier-Calculated Rates feature enabled on your Shopify plan. To learn more about Carrier-Calculated Rates, go here.

If you’re testing a new setup on your checkout page and you can’t see the updated rates, you may need to clear the Shopify cache. Learn how to clear your Shopify cache here.

Carrier-Calculated Rates are a Shopify requirement for all third-party calculation apps, including Intuitive Shipping. If Carrier-Calculate Rates are not enabled, you’ll see a warning banner on the Intuitive Shipping Dashboard. To learn more, click here.

Intuitive Shipping can’t override Shopify Shipping rates, which means two things:

When you’re testing your Intuitive Shipping setups, rates from both Shopify and Intuitive Shipping may be displayed at checkout (in Testing Mode, Intuitive Shipping rates are only visible to you when you use the customer name ‘Intuitive Shipping’ at checkout).

When you’re ready to go live and activate Intuitive Shipping, you’ll need to delete your Shopify Shipping Rates so they no longer appear at checkout.

To learn how to remove your Shopify Shipping Rates, click here.

Shopify Shipping Rates have no impact on Intuitive Shipping and can be removed at any time. If your store is live, we recommend leaving your Shopify rates until you’re ready to activate Intuitive Shipping so customers can continue to use them.

After you follow these steps to remove your Shopify Shipping Rates, only your Intuitive Shipping shipping rates will be available to your customers at checkout.

If rates are not calculating or displaying, it could be due to one of the following reasons:

Shopify’s Carrier-Calculated Rates feature is not enabled. A red banner will display on the Intuitive Shipping dashboard if third-party carrier-calculated rates are not enabled.

Visibility is turned off. This can be either the General visibility of the entire app (in the app Settings page) or the visibility of individual Shipping Scenarios (in the Edit Shipping Scenario screen).

Intuitive Shipping is not a Carrier Service. In order for rates to be calculated, Intuitive Shipping must be added as a Carrier Service to your General Profile.

‘Future Services’ is not enabled. When adding Intuitive Shipping as a Carrier Service, the Future Services box must be checked.

An error has occurred. Check the Warnings & Errors log in Settings for any calculation errors.

Learn more about troubleshooting these issues here. If you still cannot get rates to appear, please contact us for help.

Although Intuitive Shipping is not part of the fulfillment process, it does send the packing information (box dimensions, weight, Service Code) to the customer Order in Shopify. To view this information, click on the Shopify Order, then check the Notes section in the top right of the screen.

Please note: this information will only be displayed in an Order if the customer has successfully completed their purchase.

Most quick pay services will work with Intuitive Shipping, including PayPal and Apple Pay, except as noted below.

Unfortunately, Google Pay does not work with Intuitive Shipping.

Quick pay services, as well as subscription services, exclude customer information. If you are using any Conditions with customer tags – e.g. for Wholesale or Member customers – those Conditions will not be applied.

Quick pay services may also exclude other information such as custom Shipping Method descriptions.

Yes! Merchant Center cannot connect to Intuitive Shipping – or even to Shopify – through an API, so you’ll need to add your shipping costs to Merchant Center manually. Google requires that any shipping rates on Merchant Center match those on your website. If they don’t, actual rates on your website must be lower than Google Merchant Center. Learn how to make your shipping rates compliant with Google Merchant Center here.

In your Shopify Product Information settings, each product listing has a checkbox that states, ‘This is a physical product’. If this box is unchecked, Shopify assumes that the product has no physical properties and does not require shipping – e.g. a digital gift card. Shopify won’t pass the product information to Intuitive Shipping, and no shipping rates will be calculated when someone attempts to purchase that product.

We recommend reviewing the product settings for each product in the cart that causes the checkout action to go directly to the payment screen, to ensure the ‘physical product’ box is checked.

Splitting a shipment into different shipping methods or shipping to more than one destination is outside the scope of Intuitive Shipping’s functionality and is not supported by Shopify.

If you are shipping from separate locations – i.e. from two vendor locations, you can create a multi-vendor setup. Learn how here.

Yep! Not only can you create a basic Free Shipping Scenario, you can even customize exactly how your customers qualify by adding Conditions that offer or exclude free shipping based on certain criteria. Learn how to use Intuitive Shipping to create a free shipping Scenario here.

Intuitive Shipping does not handle any tax calculations. For more information about how taxes are handled within Shopify, click here.

Promotion and discount codes can be managed directly through Shopify. Discounts managed through your Shopify settings are applied after shipping is calculated and are independent of Intuitive Shipping.

Alternatively, you can manually apply a discount on a product or products, or you can apply a mark-down on the final shipping cost.

If you sell products that always require special shipping rates, such as promo items or large, bulky items, you can assign those special rates directly to the product and blend them with your regular shipping rates. To learn more, click here.

If you want to have shipping estimated on the product page or cart page, Page Calculators or Cart Calculators (sometimes called Shipping Estimators) can be used with Intuitive Shipping, as they will pull rates from our system automatically.

Please note that rates calculated by shipping estimators are not always accurate. For example, if rates are based on customer conditions, such as distance, Postal/Zip code, or customer tags (e.g. ‘wholesale’, ‘member’), rates calculated at checkout may be different than rates calculated by the Cart/Page Calculator.

Yes! We want you and your customers to have a great experience. Flash Sales can impact the app’s performance, so if we know about your sale in advance, it will help us prepare for any increased activity. Learn more about preparing for Flash Sales here.

Intuitive Shipping does not touch any Shopify code. Changing your Shopify theme does not impact your Intuitive Shipping settings or setups.

Yes! To learn how to integrate Printful with Intuitive Shipping, go here.

Absolutely! You can have Intuitive Shipping installed in more than one store. Because each Shopify store has a unique shop ID, Intuitive Shipping will need to be installed and managed separately in each store.

Intuitive Shipping is not able to work with dynamic data, so it is not possible to set up Conditions or rules based on stock levels or availability.

Because each Shopify store has a unique shop ID, and because products, shipping zones and Shopify settings are linked to stores, each installation of Intuitive Shipping must be set up and managed independently.

When General Visibility is set to On, Intuitive Shipping calculations are visible to your customers. Click the Settings menu button to check your General Visibility setting. This setting is only accessible after you have activated your 14-day FREE trial.

When General Visibility is set to Off, a banner will be displayed on the Activity Dashboard page.

Please note: in addition to General Visibility, each individual Shipping Scenario has its own Visibility setting which can be toggled On or Off. Learn more about Shipping Scenario visibility here.

Yes! During setup, you can set your preferred dimension and weight units – e.g. cm’s and kg’s. You can change these again at any time in the Units section of the Settings page.

Please note: changing the unit type does not automatically convert any values already entered into Intuitive Shipping. For example, if you have a Scenario with a weight-based Condition of 100 lbs, and you change your weight unit to kilograms, the Condition will now be based on 100 kgs.

To keep the same weight-based value, you must manually change the Condition value to the kilogram equivalent of 100 lbs.

Rates calculated by Intuitive Shipping are based on the currency in your Shopify settings and cannot be changed within the app. To update your currency setting, go to your Shopify settings. Be sure to resync your Shopify settings in Intuitive Shipping after making any changes.

Please note: changing the currency type does not automatically convert any currency values already entered into Intuitive Shipping. For example, if you have a Scenario with a free shipping threshold based on $75 Canadian Dollars, and you change your Shopify currency to US Dollars, free shipping will now be activated when the cart total is $75 USD.

To keep the same price-based value, you must manually change the Condition value to the USD equivalent of $75 CAD.

If you recently made changes to your Shopify store settings, be sure to sync your changes with Intuitive Shipping. Learn how to sync your updated settings here.

Your Primary Email address is automatically imported from your Shopify account and cannot be changed within Intuitive Shipping. To change your Primary Email address, you will need to update it in your Shopify ‘General’ settings. Be sure to re-sycn your Shopify settings with Intuitive Shipping after making any changes.

Shipping Zones are set up in your Shopify Shipping settings. If you add or remove a Shipping Zone, be sure to sync your new settings with Intuitive Shipping. Learn how to sync your settings here.

When you install Intuitive Shipping, your products are synced with Intuitive Shipping. If you add or make changes to products while you’re in Testing Mode, you’ll need to resync your product catalog with Intuitive Shipping. Learn how to sync your settings here.

After you activate your account, changes to your Shopify product settings will automatically sync with Intuitive Shipping.

When you install Intuitive Shipping, your collections are synced with Intuitive Shipping. If you add or make changes to collections while you’re in Testing Mode, you’ll need to resync them with Intuitive Shipping. Learn how to sync your settings here.

After you activate your account, changes to your Shopify collection settings will automatically sync with Intuitive Shipping.

Distance-based rate calculations use a Google Maps Directions and Geocoding API. If any of your Shipping Scenarios use distance Conditions, a banner on the Dashboard will prompt you to add your Google API credentials to Intuitive Shipping. Learn more about Google API credentials here.

You only need Google API credentials if you are calculating distance-based rates. City-based and Postal/Zip Code-based rates do not require a Google API.

If you are a Shopify Plus merchant and you anticipate a higher than usual amount of orders – e.g. more than 10 orders per minute – we recommend creating a Private App and adding credentials to Intuitive Shipping to ensure you don’t exceed your Shopify API request limit. Learn more about Private App Credentials here.

While you’re in Testing Mode, be sure to re-sync your products with Intuitive Shipping each time you add or make changes to products.

Once you have activated your account, product changes will automatically be synced with Intuitive Shipping, though we do recommend re-syncing your products if you make a lot of changes at one time.

In order to use Live Rates, all of your products will need to be assigned a weight, either in your Shopify Product Information settings or within the Intuitive Shipping app. If you enter weight in both systems, the weight value in Intuitive Shipping will supersede the value in Shopify (if they are different).

For quantity-based or weight-based packing, only weight is required. When using SmartBoxing™ or volume-based packing, you will also need to input product dimensions.

If you are using the SmartBoxing™ system or you’re using volume to calculate shipping, you will need to input product dimensions.

Intuitive Shipping lets you save time by importing dimensions for multiple products. The CSV file used to upload your dimensions uses a specific format. Making changes to the formatting – e.g. adding, removing or altering the columns or their headings – will result in an error message during importing.

A Scenario is a set of Conditions (rules) that determine when shipping rates will be displayed at checkout. Along with Conditions, each Scenario can have an unlimited number of flat rate or live rate Shipping Methods.

While Conditions are not required, each Scenario must have at least one (1) Shipping Method.

You’ll need at least one (1) Shipping Scenario to use Intuitive Shipping. The number of additional Shipping Scenarios you’ll need depends entirely on your shipping requirements.

Click here to check out some examples that can help you determine how many Scenarios you’ll need for your store.

Nope! You can create as many Shipping Scenarios as you need. Learn how to add more Shipping Scenarios here.

Fewer Scenarios will allow you to keep your shipping as manageable as possible.

Yes! If you want to add a Shipping Scenario that is similar to an existing one, you can simply duplicate it, rename the copy, then make any settings adjustments that are needed. Learn how here.

No. When you create a duplicate of a Shipping Scenario, it copies all of the settings, but it does not link them. Once you have created a duplicate of an existing Shipping Scenario, the settings for the duplicate are completely separate from the original.

Customers can only see rates from your Shipping Scenarios when you have Visibility turned On.

When Visibility is turned Off, you can bypass the visibility setting by making the customer first name ‘Intuitive‘ and last name ‘Shipping‘ in the shipping info during checkout.

Nope. Shipping Scenario titles are only visible internally.
We recommend using Shipping Scenario titles that help keep you organized within Intuitive Shipping.

We strongly recommend having only one (1) Shipping Profile when using Intuitive Shipping. Learn why here.

Intuitive Shipping syncs Shipping Zones from your Shopify settings. When you make a change to your Shopify Shipping Zone, you will need to manually re-sync your changes with Intuitive Shipping through Settings.

Shipping Zones are set up in your Shopify Shipping and delivery settings. If you make changes to your Shipping Zones, you will need to manually re-sync your changes by going to Settings in the Intuitive Shipping app.

Conditions are rules that allow you to customize each Shipping Scenario. This powerful feature lets you tailor your shipping costs in a number of different ways. 

You can choose the availability of the Shipping Scenario based on the conditions settings:

All Conditions Below Must Be Satisfied
All conditions in the Scenario must be true. This option is ideal for situations where multiple conditions must be met before rates from the Scenario are made available. For example, the product(s) must be tagged ‘fragile’ and the customer must live within 20 km.

Any Condition Below Must Be Satisfied
Any single condition in the Scenario must be true. This option is ideal for situations where only one condition from a group needs to be met before rates from the Scenario are made available. For example, a product(s) must be tagged ‘free shipping’ or the entire cart must be greater than $75.00.

None of the Conditions Below Must Be Satisfied
All conditions in the Scenario must be false. This option is ideal for situations where you don’t want any of the condition settings to be met. If any of the conditions return true, rates from the Scenario will not be triggered. For example, if the conditions state that the customer tag equals ‘wholesale’ and the product is tagged ‘free sample’, then a wholesale customer ordering a free sample will not be able to get the rates.

Not at all! Conditions aren’t required if you don’t have any rules or restrictions for your shipping. You’ll still need to set up a Scenario with at least one Shipping Method, even if you have no Conditions.

You can create unlimited Conditions for each of your Shipping Scenarios.

Condition Groups allow you to create a predefined set of common conditions that can easily be applied to any Shipping Scenario. For example, you can create a postal code Subzone using a Condition Group that includes ranges of Postal Codes or ZIP Codes.

We strongly recommend against using the Condition Groups feature for product filtering.

Absolutely! You can set up Product Conditions in a number of different ways. You can use product-identifying Conditions, such as SKU, Product Name, Type, Collection and Tag, and you can use product amount Conditions such as quantity, price, weight and volume.

If you’re using a tag as a Product Condition, the tag must already be assigned to products in your Shopify Product Information Page. Intuitive Shipping looks for the product tag in your Shopify settings, it does not assign tags.

For example, if you add the Product Condition:

Tag > Equals > fragile

your ‘fragile’ items must already be tagged in your Shopify Product Information settings for this condition to be applied at checkout.

Product tags can be assigned to your products through the Product Information Page in your Shopify settings. When assigned, you can add a Product Condition based on product tags.

Shipping tags can be assigned to Shipping Methods set up in Intuitive Shipping and are only required when creating Combined Shipping Methods.

Entire Cart Conditions apply to the cart as a whole. Let’s say you want to limit certain rates by the total number of items a customer can have in their cart to 5 or less. Your Entire Cart Condition would state – Quantity is less than or equal to 5. By doing this, the Shipping Methods from this Scenario will only be activated when there are 5 or fewer total items in the cart.

Filtered Cart Conditions apply to any of the Per Product Conditions from the same Scenario. Let’s say you want to offer a Fragile shipping rate only when there are at least 2 qualifying items in the cart. Your Filtered Cart Condition would state – Quantity is greater than or equal to 2, and your Per Product Condition would state – Tag equals ‘fragile’. By doing this, the Shipping Methods from this Scenario will only trigger when there are at least 2 items tagged ‘fragile’, regardless of what else is in the cart.

Conditions are not case sensitive. For example, if you want to limit rates to products with ‘Glass’ in the name – e.g. ‘Royal Wine Glass’ – you can set the value of your Product Name Condition to contain either ‘Glass’ or ‘glass’.

A Shipping Method determines how shipping costs are calculated at checkout. Shipping Methods can be set up with Custom Rates (single flat rates or a table of rates) or Live Rates (real-time rates from carriers like UPS and FedEx).

At a minimum, you need one (1) Shipping Scenario and one (1) Shipping Method to use Intuitive Shipping. You can add as many Shipping Methods as you need to each zone in each Shipping Scenario.

Shipping Methods are not required in each Shipping Zone in your Scenario. If your shipping rates only apply to one Zone – e.g. Domestic, you only need to enter a Shipping Method in that Zone. Anyone whose address resides outside the Zone will not get rates from that Shipping Method.

No problem. Each Shipping Method can be copied and assigned to another zone in the same Scenario with 2 mouse clicks. The copy is identical, including the title. You can make minor adjustments to the settings as needed or leave it exactly the same as the original.

Of course! While you can’t copy a Shipping Method from one Scenario to the other, you can easily make a copy of the entire Scenario by clicking the Duplicate button in the Edit Shipping Scenario screen. This creates an exact copy of the original Scenario, including the Shipping Method(s).

Absolutely! You can set up a Live Rate Shipping Method for each custom origin location (different than your default Shopify location). If you have multiple drop-ship vendors, you can create a Scenario for each vendor and blend the rates together using a Combined Shipping Method. Learn how to create a multi-vendor setup here.

Splitting a shipment into separate destinations is outside the scope of Intuitive Shipping’s functionality and not supported by Shopify.

A Combined Shipping Method lets you blend shipping rates from multiple, individual Shipping Methods into a single rate. If you have more than one product-based shipping rate, we recommend using a Combined Shipping Method.

If a customer orders products that trigger multiple Scenarios, a Combined Shipping Method will ensure that the shipping charges for each Scenario are blended together for a single shipping option at checkout. Without a Combined Shipping Method, each Scenario’s shipping charge will be displayed separately, allowing the customer to choose the cheapest one.

Let’s say you sell products from multiple vendors. Vendor ‘A’ charges a $10.00 flat rate for shipping, while Vendor ‘B’ charges a $5.00 flat rate for shipping.

Without a Combined Shipping Method, a customer ordering items from Vendor A and Vendor B will be able to choose either a $5 or $10 shipping option at checkout.

With a Combined Shipping Method set to SUM the values, a customer placing the same order will be charged $15 at checkout.

A typical Combined Shipping Method can be used to blend multiple custom (flat) rates or a mix of custom and live rates. If you are blending live rates and they include more than one delivery service – e.g. ‘Ground’, ‘2nd Day’, ‘Priority Overnight – we recommend creating a Live Rate Combined Shipping Method which has some additional setup steps not required in the general process.

Intuitive Shipping is a powerful and dynamic shipping calculation app. Fulfillment support and shipping labels are available directly through Shopify or through a fulfillment app.

Yes! You can set the maximum or minimum amount a customer pays for shipping for each Shipping Method. Learn how here.

Yep! Each Shipping Method includes a ‘Copy’ button which can create an exact duplicate of the original. This is useful if you want to add the exact same Shipping Method to another Shipping Zone, or when you want to add a similar Shipping Method with minor differences, such as ‘Signature Required’ and ‘No Signature Required’.

If the Shipping Methods are not being blended in a Combined Shipping Method, only one will appear at checkout. The duplicate will be cancelled out.

If the Shipping methods are being blended in a Combined Shipping Method, they will be combined together. For example, if Method X is $10.00, Method Y is $15.00 and an identical copy of Method Y is also $15.00, the customer will be shown a combined rate of $40.00 ($10.00 +15.00 +15.00) instead of $25.00 dollars.

If two Shipping Methods in the same Shipping Zone have the exact same title – e.g. ‘FedEx Ground’ – but their costs are different – e.g. one has an additional $5.00 markup – only the cheaper of the two will appear at checkout.

If two Shipping Methods in the same Shipping Zone have the same title and the same cost – but other settings are different – only the original – i.e. the one listed first in the Scenario – will appear at checkout

Intuitive Shipping does not store rates. Once you edit the rate in a Custom Shipping Method and save your changes, it is permanently overwritten.

If you anticipate having to restore old rates, consider duplicating your Shipping Scenario before you change the rate. Once duplicated, adjust the flat rate(s) in the new Scenario’s shipping methods as needed. Then, go back to the original Shipping Scenario and turn off Visibility. If at any point you want to restore your old rates, simply turn off Visibility for the new Scenario and turn on Visibility for the old Scenario.

We offer a few different packing method options:

Simplified Packing System
A value – such as weight or number of items – will be used to determine the combination of Packages required to pack the order. Based on this determination, package weights and dimensions will be sent to the carrier, and a shipping cost calculation will be returned and displayed to your customer.

If the products you sell are generally the same size, you can typically use this method. Simplified Packaging allows you to add package sizes based on the number of items in the cart or how much the cart weighs. This lets you set up your packages without having to assign dimensions to all of your products.

SmartBoxing™
To use this method, all products triggering this Shipping Method must have dimensions assigned to them. Using SmartBoxing™, Intuitive Shipping will determine the total size and number of packages required to ship the order. Based on this determination, package weights and dimensions will be sent to the carrier, and a shipping cost calculation will be returned and displayed to your customer.

If you have a number of products and they vary in size, we recommend using this method. SmartBoxing™ will determine the most efficient packaging based on the dimensions of each product.

Learn more about using Smartboxing™ here.

Package Separately
You can assign dimensions to a product and enable the setting “Package Separately”.  When enabled, this product will package separately and not be packed using either Simplified Packing or SmartBoxing™.  

The dimensions assigned to the product are used as the package dimensions.  These products will be added as individual packages to the total number of packages sent to the carrier for a shipping cost calculation.

To set up SmartBoxing™, create a Live Rate Shipping Method that splits packages based on SmartBoxing™. Then, make sure all of your product dimensions and weights are entered and verified. That’s it! SmartBoxing™ is ready to go.

Intuitive Shipping is optimized to work with the fixed length, width and height of rigid packages – i.e. boxes. Soft packages have fixed length and width, but variable height. We may offer support for flexible soft packages in the future.

We currently have integrations with these carriers:

Australia Post eParcel
Australia Post Parcel
Canada Post
Canpar
DHL eCommerce
DHL Express
Easyship
eShipper
FedEx
FedEx Freight LTL
Purolator
United States Postal Service (USPS)
UPS

At this time we offer integration with FedEx Freight LTL. Other freight carrier integrations may be added in the future.

When you select your preferred carrier from the ‘Calculate Shipping Based On‘ section of the Shipping Method, carrier settings will be displayed below the Packages section. Learn more about entering carrier account credentials here.

Carrier Account settings fields are not visible until you have selected a carrier from the ‘Calculate Shipping Based On’ drop-down list.

If your carrier account credentials have been partially entered, or if there are any typos or blank spaces in the credentials, rates will not be returned and an error will be generated in the Warnings & Errors log on the Settings tab.

To resolve this, re-enter your carrier account credentials in the Shipping Method(s), then click the Save button. If the error continues to occur, contact the carrier to verify that your credentials are correct. If you have verified that your credentials are correct and the error is still occurring, contact us for support.

FedEx Smart Post is not currently supported by Intuitive Shipping. This option may be added in the future.

If you enable FedEx One Rate in your FedEx Live Rate Shipping Method, you will need to set up One Rate boxes. FedEx does not permit custom boxes with their One Rate service.

At this time we are not integrated with Stamps.com.

If your LTL (Less Than Load or ‘Less Than Truckload’) rates are not being displayed, it may be because the Billing and Origin addresses are different or because the carrier account information is missing.

LTL Freight carriers require the Billing and Origin addresses to be the same. In addition, you must include your account credentials, as LTL carriers do not provide retail rates when the account credential fields are left blank.

Dimensional weight is a theoretical calculation used by most carriers to quote live rates. Using a formula that considers both the size (volume) and weight of a package, dimensional weight estimates the package density, because it is possible to ship a small box that weighs a lot and a large box that doesn’t.

Dimensional weight is calculated by the carriers using the actual dimensions and weight sent by Intuitive Shipping.

Manually entering dimensional weight may result in over-size fees or delivery restrictions and is not recommended.

If Live Rates are not appearing at checkout, it may be because Carrier-Calculated Rates are not enabled.

Carrier-Calculated Rates are a Shopify requirement for all third-party calculation apps, including Intuitive Shipping. When Carrier-Calculate Rates are not enabled, we’ll display a warning banner on the Intuitive Shipping Dashboard.

If Carrier-Calculated Rates are enabled and Live Rates are still not appearing, be sure to verify that your carrier account credentials and all package dimensions are entered correctly. Also, check that your Shipping Scenario visibility is set to ‘On’.

To learn more about enabling Live Rates, click here.

If you’re calculating shipping using a Live Rate Shipping Method, the Fallback Rate feature lets you set up a placeholder shipping cost that will be activated only when live rates from the carrier time out. This may happen when the carrier’s system is experiencing lag from high demand, such as during Black Friday, or if their rating system has gone down.

The Fallback rate does not activate when the carrier fails to return a rate due to other reasons, such as package dimensions are too large, the product is missing weight, account credentials are not valid, selected delivery services are not available in the customer’s postal code. Instead, those errors will cause the cart to fail at checkout.

In order to ship by USPS (United States Parcel Service) First Class Mail, the weight must not exceed 13 oz (0.81 lbs). If your Shipping Method condition is based on the total weight being less than 1 lb, but the weight still exceeds the 13 oz limit, no rate will be returned.

USPS discourages the use of ‘packages’ with First Class Mail. If your shipment meets the weight requirement and still results in an error, it may be due to the volume of the package. Alternatively, USPS First-Class Package Service allows weights up to 15.99 oz.

Your live rate carrier may have a limit on how many packages can be shipped on one order. When Intuitive Shipping generates more packages than the carrier can ship, rates will not be returned from the carrier and an error will be generated in the Warnings & Errors log on the Settings tab.

To resolve this, you may need to increase the ‘Up To’ limit on your packages if possible, or add larger packages sizes to the Shipping Method if it’s feasible to do so. You can also use Conditions in your Scenarios to limit customer order sizes – e.g. weight, quantity, volume, etc. – to prevent excess packages.

Contact your preferred carriers to learn more about their package count and size limits.

When setting up your Live Rates Shipping Method, you have the option to use the Carrier delivery times, set your own custom range – e.g. 3 to 5 days, or use a combination of both.

To ensure that there is always a delivery time, even when Carrier delivery times are not returned, you can combine your own custom delivery range with the Carrier delivery times.

When combined, the Carrier’s delivery time will be added to the minimum setting of your custom delivery range. For example, if your custom range is 1 to 5 days, and the Carrier returns a delivery time of 3 days, the actual delivery time displayed to your customer will be 4 days.

When no Carrier delivery time is returned, your custom range will be displayed.

Yes. Carrier-Calculated Shipping Rates are a Shopify requirement to use all third-party shipping calculation apps, including Intuitive Shipping.

Shopify requires Carrier-Calculated Shipping Rates to be enabled on your Shopify plan so third-party calculators can access the checkout page. By Shopify’s definition, Intuitive Shipping is a third-party rate calculator. Even if you’re not using Live Rates, you’ll still need this feature for Intuitive Shipping to function.

If you are on the Advanced Shopify plan or higher, this feature is already included in your Shopify plan. If you are on the Basic or Shopify plans, you will need to contact Shopify via email, live chat, or phone to get the feature added to your plan. Learn more about Carrier-Calculated Rates here.

The Carrier-Calculated Shipping Rates feature is USD $20.00 per month if you are on the Basic Shopify or Shopify plan. When you switch to annual billing, this feature can be added to your plan at no additional charge, and you’ll save 10% on your Shopify subscription. If you’re on or switch to annual billing, you’ll still need to contact Shopify to active Carrier-Calculated Rates – it is not enabled automatically.

Note: If you are on the Advanced Shopify plan or higher, this feature is already included in your Shopify plan.

To enable SmartBoxing™, create a Live Rate Shipping Method with Packages split based on the SmartBoxing™ Algorithm. Be sure that all of your package dimensions are entered and verified. That’s it! SmartBoxing™ is ready to go.

Yes, in order to use our SmartBoxing™ system, your products must have dimensions assigned to them.

Yes, in order to take advantage of our SmartBoxing™ system, you must input your fulfillment box sizes into Intuitive Shipping.

At its core, Intuitive Shipping is a (super advanced) calculator. As with any calculator, you must provide the information you require to be calculated. SmartBoxing™ uses product and packaging dimensions to determine the most efficient packing method possible. If either the dimensions of the products or the fulfillment box sizes aren’t provided, Intuitive Shipping is unable to perform a calculation.

Yes. In order to take advantage of our SmartBoxing™ system, you must enter product dimensions into Intuitive Shipping. You can bulk edit your product dimensions by following the instructions here.

You can use the SmartBoxing™ system to calculate shipping for the suppliers who do provide dimensions for their products. To achieve this, create two separate Shipping Scenarios – one Scenario for vendors who can use SmartBoxing™ and another for vendors who cannot.

When entering your package sizes, enter the inner wall dimensions of the boxes you ship your products in.

The SmartBoxing™ packing system is only accessible for Live Rate Shipping Methods. The key benefit of SmartBoxing™ is to package an order as efficiently as possible to ensure accurate live shipping rates.

We absolutely can! When you feel like your setup is complete, submit a support ticket here or from within the Intuitive Shipping app.

To send your request from within the app, click Support on the main menu. In the Email Support section, enter your store name, Shopify domain, and the setup you’d like us to review in the Enquiry box, then click the Send button. We’ll send you an Access Request for the Applications and Settings for your store. The request will come from support@intuitiveshipping.com and will go to the primary email address for your Shopify account.

After you approve the Access Request, we’ll review your setup and either make minor adjustments ourselves or we’ll send you an overview of the changes that need to be made. Depending on the complexity of your setup, we may need to schedule a one-on-one appointment to provide more details.

Sure! Intuitive Shipping offers a White Glove Setup service. Learn more about it here.

Yes! If you need help, speak to one of our helpful team members at a time that is convenient for you. Book your appointment here.

At this time we’re offering real-time onboarding and tech support by appointment only through web conference. If you prefer not to talk or are unable to talk during your appointment, you can opt to use the text chat box in the web conference software. Book your appointment here.

If you experience an issue with Intuitive Shipping that is urgent and business-critical, please email us and put ‘URGENT’ in the subject line.

Yes! To submit a ticket, click Support on the main menu and complete the Email Support section. You can also submit a support ticket from the Help Center here.

Absolutely! To return to the Help Center, click Support on the app menu, then click the Go to help center button near the top of the page.

We typically respond to Support Tickets within 1 business day. Email support during weekends and Canadian statutory holidays is limited.

Live Support is by appointment and can typically be scheduled at a convenient time with one business day. After booking your appointment, we’ll send you an email explaining how to access your Live Support meeting.

If you have an urgent, business-critical issue with Intuitive Shipping, please email us and put ‘URGENT’ in the subject line. Someone will get back to you as soon as possible.

The Intuitive Shipping Status page provides real-time updates during app downtime caused by maintenance or unforseen technical issues. We also provide updates when our carrier partners have rates-related issues.

Be sure to add the Status page to your browser bookmarks. Or click the Subscribe To Updates button at the top of the Status page to receive status alerts by email.

We pay for top-tier server infrastructure that scales with your Shopify store. Simply put, every shipping calculation costs us money.

Absolutely! All merchants, regardless of order volume, have access to email support and live support.

Nope! Only successfully completed orders count towards your plan.

Only completed orders from your online store count towards your plan.

Only if you choose to upgrade to the next tier. Each Intuitive Shipping billing plan includes an additional cost per order if you exceed the order limit of the plan. If you’re only a few orders over your limit, you’re best to stay on your current billing plan.

Yes! If you exceed your order limit, there is no disruption to your Intuitive Shipping service. Each Intuitive Shipping billing plan includes an additional cost per order if you exceed the order limit of the plan.
The total number of additional charges you can incur is limited by your Billing Limit. See below for more details.

Shopify requires all third-party apps to have a maximum usage Billing Limit that is chosen by the customer. The Billing Limit is the maximum allowable amount we are authorized to bill for overage charges – it does not apply to your regular monthly billing amount.

To avoid service interruptions, we strongly encourage you to set your Billing Limit to at least double your plan price.

No. The Billing Limit is the maximum allowable amount we are authorized to charge for additional per order (i.e. ‘overage’) charges, but you will only be charged the actual amount of overage charges if any.

Let’s say your monthly usage exceeds your plan limit by $10, and your Billing Limit is set to $30. At the end of the billing period, you will be billed the monthly plan rate plus $10 – not plus $30.

Absolutely! You’ll receive a notification email when you have reached 50%, 85%, 90%, 95% and 100% of your Billing Limit.
Notification emails are sent to the Primary and Secondary email addresses displayed in the app Settings tab.

Once you reach your limit, Intuitive Shipping will no longer return rates at checkout until one of the following happens:

Your Billing Limit is increased
You upgrade your Intuitive Shipping plan
Your next Shopify billing cycle begins

If you have exceeded your plan’s order limit and you’re already accruing per-order overage charges, you will be billed only for charges accrued up to the time you upgrade. Once you have upgraded, overage charges will stop accruing. Changing your plan does not void overage charges already incurred to that point.

Your Intuitive Shipping app charges will appear on your Shopify invoice. Learn more about how Shopify bills you here.

To cancel your account, simply delete the Intuitive Shipping app from your Shopify Apps list. That’s it! Monthly billing will stop automatically.

Your settings will be saved for a brief period of time, just in case you change your mind. If you don’t reinstall the app during this time, all of your settings and synced Shopify data will be purged.

And if your shipping needs change in the future, we hope you’ll install us again!

Yes, only if the number of orders you have is lower than the order limit of the plan you wish to downgrade to. Your Intuitive Shipping charges will be prorated for that billing cycle, which you can learn more about here.

Yes, you can upgrade to a higher tier at any point during your billing cycle.

No! Once you activate your account, your 14-Day FREE Trial will begin. When it ends, your first billing period will begin automatically.

Absolutely not. There is no interruption to your service. When your 14-Day FREE Trial ends, billing begins automatically. You can continue to use Intuitive Shipping the same way you did during the free trial. It’s totally seamless.