It’s common for US-based shipping carriers to temporarily increase their service prices to better manage the holiday season workload. This price increase is called a shipping surcharge.
As all major US shipping carriers have increased holiday delivery prices this year, we’ve added a temporary surcharge to our shipping fees.
From Oct 21 to Jan 19, a $0.40 surcharge will be added to all orders with the destination address in the US.
The surcharge will be added per order, so if your order includes multiple products from categories with different surcharge rates, we’ll apply a single surcharge.
Sales tax will be applied to the surcharge if an order is shipped within the US to a destination state with taxable shipping. The tax will be added as a separate charge and calculated from the sum of the product price, shipping cost with the surcharge, and any additional services.
Note: Shipping discounts and coupons won’t apply to order surcharges, except for sample orders that qualify for free shipping.
What can I do?
If you have US-based customers, we advise you to review your shipping prices and consider manually adjusting them to cover the surcharge fee.
If you use Shopify, Etsy, eBay, WooCommerce, Ecwid, or Printful API (and you’re using live rates or Printful’s shipping profiles)—you can set up shipping surcharges to be automatically added to the shipping prices on your storefront. To enable this:
- Go to Dashboard > Settings > Store settings > Shipping
- Find Temporary shipping surcharges
- Tick the box next to Add surcharges to shipping prices on my storefront
The surcharge will be automatically added to the shipping price for orders going to the US.
If you’re using other integrations and/or a custom shipping strategy, please click on the link below to see the steps for adjusting your shipping prices manually: