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Shipping rate planner
Give it your parcels, costs and countries. Get shipping zones, rates and a free-shipping line to enter.
Shipping rate planner is a free AI skill for the job "Set up your online store". Give the instructions to an AI assistant that supports the required files and tools, then review its output.
Free · No account · Made by AI Blocks · Level: beginner
What it does
Shipping set up in a hurry loses money quietly. Rates that are too low eat your margin on every order. A default free-shipping method makes every cart look free. Price brackets that overlap charge more as the cart grows. Rates that are too complicated make buyers leave at checkout. This skill plans your shipping before you enter it. It starts with the few places you can serve well, picks a rate model, sets a free-shipping line above your average order value, and checks that the price you charge covers the real cost. It also gives you the carts to test at each line, including the exact boundary. The sources show how to set shipping up, not how to find a profitable price, so you bring your real costs and margin. Example amounts in the sources are not benchmarks.
You give it
- The countries or states you will ship to, and where each ships from
- Your real shipping cost per country or weight band (or your supplier's cost if you dropship)
- Product weights, packed box sizes and the empty-box weight
- Your average order value, typical basket and margin
- Your platform (Shopify or WooCommerce), and which items are bulky (optional)
- Brand brain (optional)
- Your results (optional)
You get
- A zone-by-zone rate table (flat, free over a line, or calculated)
- A free-shipping line for each zone, with the reason
- Package and class settings to enter, and click-by-click steps for your platform
- Delivery-time and announcement-bar wording, plus carts to test
Use it when
- You are setting up shipping for a new store and do not know where to start.
- Your shipping looks like it loses money, or every cart shows free shipping.
- You are adding a second country or a free-shipping line and want it to lift order value, not cut margin.
How to use it
- Start a chat with the skill. Open it if you added it to your AI, or copy it and paste it in.
- Paste your countries, parcel sizes, real carrier costs, average order value and margin.
- Say your platform and whether you ship from one place or several.
- Enter the rates it gives you, then place the test carts it lists and tell it what you saw.
- Check the price you charge against your real carrier bill after your first week of orders.