Set Up Delivery Areas and Rates with Square Online

The default shipping profile applies to all of your shippable items except those included in a custom profile. To set up a default shipping profile for all items:

1. From your Square Online Overview page, go to Fulfilment > Shipping.
2. Under “Shipping profiles”, select Add shipping profile.
3. Enter a name for the profile and choose Default (all items) as your profile type.
4. Select +Add countries and tick any countries you’ll ship to. Select Done.
5. Select Add rate to choose a rate option from the dropdown menu. Complete all other details and select Done.
6. Review your profile and select Save when finished.

Note: You can set up multiple default shipping profiles as long as the location information (e.g. counties, regions, provinces, countries) are unique to each profile.

A custom shipping profile lets you set up unique shipping rates and regions for specific items. For example, you might sell items that you can’t ship to particular locations due to restrictions. Creating a custom shipping profile for these items lets you exclude any restricted regions. They also work with your default shipping profile to allow more flexibility in how you ship your items.

To set up a custom shipping profile for specific items:

1. From your Square Online Overview page, go to Fulfilment > Shipping.
2. Under “Shipping profiles”, select Add shipping profile.
3. Enter a name for the profile and choose Custom (specific items) as your profile type.
4. Select Choose items and check the items you want to include in the profile. Select Add items when finished.
5. Select +Add countries and tick any countries you’ll ship to. Select Done.
6. Select Add rate and enter your details. Per order applies the rate to the entire order if any purchased item is part of the custom profile. Per item applies the rate to each purchased item that’s assigned to a custom profile. Select Done.
7. Review your profile and select Save when finished.

Note: You can set up additional custom profiles following the same steps, but you can’t add an item to more than one custom profile.

Set a single price for delivery, and charge either per order or per item. This is a good choice if you want to keep things simple and know that your delivery costs don’t vary much.

Offer free delivery based on order weight, order price or for all orders. Use this in conjunction with other rates to give your customers a deal on larger purchases (for example, ‘‎Free delivery on all orders over £‎50!’).

Set your own rates based on the weight of all items in an order. This can work well when you deliver within a limited area. This option will not take into account the distance to the destination or what couriers actually charge.

To set up a delivery rate by order weight, you’ll need to make sure you’ve specified a weight for each of your items. To start:

1. From your Square Online Overview page, go to Items > Site Items.
2. Select an item from your list.
3. Under Fulfilment, make sure Delivery is ticked so you can add a Delivery weight in the text box.
4. Select Save when finished.

Note: If the weight of all items in an order is 0, the weight will automatically default to 0.1 lb/kg.

Learn more about how to add items and categories to Square Online.

Charge delivery based on the total price of an order. You could use this option to discount delivery for customers who spend more than a certain amount on a single order.

Charge delivery based on the number of items in an order. This is helpful if you’re selling items of a similar size and weight and your cost increases when you need to deliver multiple items. This option will not take into account the distance to the destination or what couriers actually charge.

Rates for order weights, order totals and item quantities have a fallback rate option, which is what applies when you get an order that doesn’t fit into any of the delivery conditions you’ve set up. This is so you don’t have to be responsible for delivery costs in cases where a customer orders a combination of items you hadn’t anticipated or didn’t account for during initial setup.