Hide Methods At A Certain Weight, Price, or Quantity

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Steps
• Creating a Shipping Filter
• Creating your Shipping Rule
• Conclusion

Overview

With ShipperHQ, you can hide shipping methods based on various criteria through shipping rules. These criteria include cart weight, item quantity, or order price. This guide will show you how to hide UPS Ground when the weight exceeds 50 LBs.

Steps

This document assumes you've already set up your Carrier and defined shipping methods.

Creating a Shipping Filter

1. Click “Filters” from the left-hand navigation in ShipperHQ, then click +New.

    

   
   

2. On the filter setup page, enter the name for your filter, e.g., “50 LBs +”.

    

   • Select Filter Applies to as Origin.
   • Add a brief description in the “Internal Description” text box. This helps your team and support understand the filter's purpose.

   

3. Set a Weight Range of 50 LBs, with No Maximum Weight.

    

   

4. Save your new filter. You can select this option when building your shipping rule.

Creating your Shipping Rule

1. Navigate to the “Shipping Rules” option in the left-hand navigation menu.

    

   

2. Click “Add New” to create a new shipping rule.

    

   

3. Select “Hide Methods” for the rule's action.

    

   

4. Choose the shipping methods to hide, such as UPS Ground.

    

   

Weight Filter:

1. Use “Weight” for the rule condition and click “Continue”.

    

   

2. Enter the weight for your rule. If you haven't created a weight filter, do so now. Select Apply an Existing Filter if a suitable weight filter already exists.

    

   

3. Select the existing weight filter from the drop-down menu.

    

   

4. Add a title for the new rule. This helps in identifying it within the rules list and during testing.

    

   

5. Click “Finish” to save and apply the rule. Test your rule using the Test your Rates feature to ensure it works as intended.

Price Filter:

1. Click the option to use Price for the rule condition to apply this surcharge to the selected methods, then click Continue to proceed to the next step.

    

   

2. You will be presented with a prompt to enter the monetary value for your rule. If you have not yet created the price filter, you can do so here.

    

   

   If you have already created a price filter from the initial steps above, you can simply opt to Apply an Existing Filter.

   

   Select the existing price filter from the drop-down menu that appears on the next screen.

   

3. After selecting the price filter and proceeding, a summary of the shipping rule will be displayed. Be sure to add a title for the new rule so that it can be easily identified in the shipping rules list and when testing.

    

   

4. Click Finish to save the new rule. This will apply the rule immediately. 
5. Once the rule has been created, we recommend using the Test your Rates feature to confirm the new rule is working as intended.

Conclusion

After completing this rule, UPS Ground will not provide shipping rates for orders over 50 LBs or by the value for a price filter. Similar rules can be made using price and quantity filters. Explore our full guide on creating filters within ShipperHQ here for more details.