Market-driven shipping now available in feature preview

Market-driven shipping moves merchant-owned shipping configuration out of delivery profiles and into Markets. Merchants will attach shipping options directly to each market, and then vary rates by product and location conditions within a single option. This makes checkout rate behavior more predictable and easier to understand.

What this means for your app:

• Merchant shipping configuration (today’s merchant delivery profiles) moves from the delivery profile API to the Markets API.
• App delivery profiles (delivery profiles created by apps) keep using the delivery profile API.
• App-provided rates (rates defined within app delivery profiles) still appear alongside merchant rates in the new experience.
• App delivery profiles are getting more powerful: they can now target all products instead of just a subset, and adding a product to an app profile will no longer impact the merchant configuration.
• If your app reads, creates, or updates merchant shipping settings through the delivery profile API, you’ll need to update it. Market-driven shipping will start rolling out to merchants on October 1, 2026, and all merchants will be on it by July 1, 2027.

The feature preview is available today. Create a new development store, enable the feature preview, and validate your existing integration and rate logic.

To learn how market-driven shipping works and how to upgrade your app see Market-driven shipping feature preview.