Manage Shipping Profiles

In this guide, you'll learn what shipping profiles are and how to manage them in the vendor dashboard.

What is a Shipping Profile?

A shipping profile groups products with similar shipping requirements, allowing you to cater shipping options specifically for those products.

For example, if your store has fragile items that are shipped differently from other products, you can create a "Fragile" shipping profile and associate it with the fragile products. Then, you can create shipping options for fragile products, and options for other products.

View Shipping Profiles

To view shipping profiles in your store:

1. Go to Settings → Locations & Shipping.
2. In the Shipping Configuration section, click Shipping Profiles.

Here, you can see a list of all the shipping profiles you have set up. You can also search, filter, and sort the shipping profiles to find the one you are looking for.

Create Shipping Profile

To create a shipping profile:

1. Go to Settings → Locations & Shipping → Shipping Profiles.
2. Click Create in the main section's header.
3. In the form that opens:
   • In Name, enter a name for the shipping profile. For example, "Fragile".
   • In Type, enter the type of products that belong to the shipping profile. For example, fragile or heavy.
4. When you're done, click Save.

View Shipping Profile Details

To view the details of a shipping profile:

1. Go to Settings → Locations & Shipping → Shipping Profiles.
2. Click a shipping profile from the list.

This opens the shipping profile's details page where you can also manage the shipping profile.

Manage Products of Shipping Profile

You can manage the shipping profile of a product on the product's details page.

Manage Shipping Profile Metadata

Metadata is custom data that can be associated with the shipping profile in key-value pairs. This is usually used by developers for custom integrations or to store additional information about the shipping profile.

To edit the shipping profile's metadata:

1. Click the arrow icon in the Metadata section.
2. In the side window that opens:
   • Manage the key-value pairs in the table.
   • To add a new row of key-value pairs before or after a row:
     • Hover over the row and click the three-dot menu at its end.
     • Choose Insert row above or Insert row below from the dropdown.
   • To delete a row of key-value pairs:
     • Hover over the row and click the three-dot menu at its end.
     • Choose Delete row from the dropdown.
3. When you're done, click Save.

Delete Shipping Profile

Deleting a shipping profile is irreversible.

To delete a shipping profile:

1. Go to the shipping profile's details page.
2. Click the three-dot menu in the first section's header.
3. Choose Delete from the dropdown.
4. Confirm by entering the shipping profile's name in the pop-up and clicking Delete.