[stickfigure]

Oh sure... I make everything one pound, and create fixed rates for 1#, 2#, 3#, etc... but there's a (low) finite number of entries you can add, so if someone orders more than N units, they get free shipping for the rest. It's a terrible workaround. Etsy does not have this problem.

Or perhaps you are thinking about creating a carrier service, so Shopify will fetch shipping prices in realtime? That's for people on Shopify Plus plans, which costs $2k/mo+.

Actually, that's not quite true! There's a wholly undocumented option for non-plus merchants to get the carrier service feature enabled on their account for a monthly fee of something like $25. They have to reach out to support.

Everything with Shopify is like this. Great for consultants who have already internalized all this knowledge, sure.

[disantlor]

but why should it necessarily be that much different? better documentation sure, always. but in my experience Shopify solves ~70% of the cases extremely well and I, having learned some of the quirks, have very little problem filling the gaps. I will say, the app development, to the point of the article, IS a bit annoying hah. But I'm very surprised by all these API complaints. I think the API is very nice; maybe not quite Stripe-level but highly effective.

[yunohn]

So your job is being a gatekeeper for Shopify’s shipping setup capabilities?