What is Smart Boxing?

Smart Boxing lets you charge accurate live rates to your customers at checkout.

Why You Need It

Major shipping carriers like Canada Post, USPS, and UPS, charge for shipping based on the dimensional weight of a package; a single packing peanut in a fridge-sized box will be exponentially more expensive to ship than a lead paperweight in a shoebox.

The problem with Shopify's live shipping rates is that you are allocated one package dimension to send off to a shipping carrier. If you only fulfill orders using one box size, this usually won't impact you. However, if you ship orders using multiple box sizes and face vastly varying shipping costs, you need to get your ship together if you want to scale your store.

How Smart Boxing Works

• Input dimensions for the products in your store
• Add the dimensions of the soft packages (polybags) and box sizes you ship with
• Connect your preferred shipping carrier
• Start your 14-day trial to start charging accurate live rates to your customers at checkout.

Features

• Our proprietary SmartBoxing algorithm will calculate the most efficient packaging for an order, displaying accurate dimensional rates to your customers at checkout
• Assembly required? Set multiple dimensions/weight of packaging for a product, ensuring customers are paying the right price for shipping on these multi-piece items.
• Employ pricing psychology and round live rates to the nearest half dollar, dollar, 5 or 10 dollars
• Manage the dimensions and availability of the packages you fulfill with, in one central hub
• Assign costs for your packages to be blended with your live rates at checkout.
• Have a large product mix? Export your products into a CSV file to quickly add dimensions, and spend more time growing your store.
• Assign percentage or dollar-based values to mark up or mark down your shipping rates

Supported Carriers

Canada Post, USPS, FedEx, DHL, UPS

Need Help?

We get it; shipping is complicated. Whatever you need, we’re only an email or live chat away.

You Should Know

All third-party shipping apps for Shopify require Shopify's third-party calculated rates feature. If you are on the Basic or Shopify plan, please contact Shopify Support to get this feature added to your store.