---
title: PreferenceDeliveryMethodType - Storefront API
description: The preferred delivery methods such as shipping, local pickup or through pickup points.
api_version: 2025-01
api_name: storefront
type: enum
api_type: graphql
source_url:
  html: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/storefront/2025-01/enums/preferencedeliverymethodtype
  md: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/storefront/2025-01/enums/preferencedeliverymethodtype.md
---

# Preference​Delivery​Method​Type

enum

The preferred delivery methods such as shipping, local pickup or through pickup points.

## Valid values

* PICK\_​UP

  A delivery method used to let buyers receive items directly from a specific location within an area.

* PICKUP\_​POINT

  A delivery method used to let buyers collect purchases at designated locations like parcel lockers.

* SHIPPING

  A delivery method used to send items directly to a buyer’s specified address.

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## Fields

* [Cart​Delivery​Preference.deliveryMethod](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/storefront/2025-01/objects/CartDeliveryPreference#field-CartDeliveryPreference.fields.deliveryMethod)

  OBJECT

  A set of preferences tied to the buyer interacting with the cart. Preferences are used to prefill fields in at checkout to streamline information collection. Preferences are not synced back to the cart if they are overwritten.

* [Cart​Delivery​Preference​Input.deliveryMethod](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/storefront/2025-01/input-objects/CartDeliveryPreferenceInput#fields-deliveryMethod)

  INPUT OBJECT

  Delivery preferences can be used to prefill the delivery section at checkout.

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## Map

### Fields with this enum

* <-|[Cart​Delivery​Preference.deliveryMethod](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/storefront/2025-01/objects/CartDeliveryPreference#field-CartDeliveryPreference.fields.deliveryMethod)

### Inputs with this enum

* [Cart​Delivery​Preference​Input.deliveryMethod](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/storefront/2025-01/input-objects/CartDeliveryPreferenceInput#fields-deliveryMethod)