How markups work
A markup raises or lowers a shipping method's price. You can add a percentage, a fixed amount, an amount from a table, or extra packaging weight. Markups live on their own page: Markups in the sidebar (the page is titled Shipping Markups).
Before you begin
Markups, product markups and rule prices
There are three places to adjust what shoppers pay:
| Where | Best for |
|---|---|
| Markups page | A handling fee or percentage on a whole method, often a live carrier rate |
| The rule's How it's priced | Setting the price itself, for flat and table rates |
| A product's Markup | Extra shipping for one product. See Add a shipping markup to a product |
Real-time rules have no handling fee field of their own. To add to a live carrier rate, use the Markups page.
What a markup contains
- Basics → Shipping method: the method it changes.
- When it applies: optional Origin ZIP code, Destination ZIP code (one code or a range like
33400-33499), Country and States / provinces. Leave a box empty to match any. - Markup: one of three types:
- Percentage or flat — a percentage of the rate, or an amount per order, per product or per pound.
- Table — an amount or a percentage from tiers. See Vary a markup by amount, weight or number of products.
- Packaging weight — extra weight per box. See Add packing-material weight to packages.
- Add at least … but no more than …: limits the amount the markup adds, not the shipping total.
How markups are applied
- Only markups switched On apply.
- They add up. If several markups match the same method and address, all of them apply.
- Free stays free. Markups aren't added to a $0 rate.
- Before limits. Markups are added before the method's Minimum charge and Maximum charge, and before the Rate above or below an amount trigger.
- Origin. A markup with an Origin ZIP code applies only to boxes shipping from that origin.
A markup is tied to one rule
When you pick a Shipping method and save, the markup is saved against one specific rule of that method — not the method as a whole.
- If that rule is deleted, the markup disappears from the Markups list and stops applying.
- If that rule is switched off, the markup stops applying — even if other rules of the method are still on.
After you delete or switch off rules, check your markups. See A markup stopped working.
Settings that affect markups
Base table-amount markup rules on in Settings decides what an Amount markup table is based on: Package value, Order value or Shipping rate. See Global shipping settings explained.
Reading the Markups list
Each card shows the method name, an on/off switch, Edit, and ⋯ with Duplicate and Delete. Lines summarize the markup, for example "Percentage of the rate: 10%", "Minimum markup: $1.00" or "Destination ZIP code: 33400-33499".
