Set up shipping zones

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Set up shipping zones

Last updated September 01, 2026 21:06

Limit your shipping options to specific countries, cities, and postal codes.

Use shipping zones to limit where you ship products, or set shipping fees based on location. Shipping options appear at checkout after a customer enters a shipping address.

Before setting up shipping zones, set up your general shipping rules first.

How shipping zones work

For each shipping rule you want to apply to a country, state, province, or city, add a new shipping option. For each shipping option, choose one or more shipping zones.

For example, if you want to charge $5 USD to ship to the United States, and $10 USD to ship anywhere else in the world, you might create:

  • One $5 USD flat rate option with the shipping zones set to the United States.
  • Another $10 USD flat rate option with the shipping zones set to Rest of the World.

To restrict shipping destinations for some products, use fulfillment profiles.

Choose your shipping zones

When creating a new shipping option for flat rate or weight-based shipping, choose your shipping zones. Click the search bar under “Select regions you will ship to” to open the country dropdown menu.

When choosing a shipping zone, there are two options:

  • Ship everywhere: To ship everywhere, choose Rest of the World. This option excludes countries you've created specific shipping rules for.
  • Ship to specific countries: Search for countries, and add each country where you’ll offer this shipping method. For some countries, you can choose specific states, regions, provinces, cities, and postal codes.

Create regional and local shipping zones

You can create state, province, city, and postal code-specific shipping options for these countries:

  • Australia
  • Canada
  • France
  • Ireland
  • New Zealand
  • Norway
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • United States
  • United Kingdom

Set up shipping zones by state and province

When you add a country, the shipping option automatically applies to all states and provinces within that country. To limit it to specific states or provinces:

  1. Next to the country, click the pencil icon.
  2. Uncheck the states or provinces where the shipping option won’t be available.
  3. Click Save.

Set up shipping zones by city and postal code

When you select a state or province, shipping zones apply to all postal codes within the state or province automatically. To apply shipping zones to specific cities and postal codes within a state or province:

  1. In the shipping regions section, click Edit beside the country.
  2. Click the down arrow beside a state or province, then enter the postal codes where the shipping option will apply within that state, separated by commas. Each shipping rule has a limit of 999 postal codes.
  3. When you’re finished adding all states and postal codes, click Save.
  4. In the shipping option, click Save.

Edit existing shipping options

To edit existing shipping options:

  1. Open the Shipping panel.
  2. Open a shipping option, then scroll to the Select regions you will ship to section.
  3. Click the pencil icon to edit regions within selected countries, or click the trash can icon to remove countries.

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