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Sync delivery profiles
How the Shipping & delivery setting carries your originals' Shopify delivery profiles onto merged products, the shipping permission it needs, and what happens when it's off.
If you use custom Shopify delivery profiles — say a heavier shipping rate for furniture, or a separate profile for a print-on-demand range — a freshly merged product won’t inherit them on its own. Sync delivery profiles, under Settings → Shipping & delivery, carries them across so the merged product ships the same way its sources did.
The Shipping & delivery card with Sync delivery profiles turned on and shipping access granted
What it does
When it’s on, every merge checks which delivery profile each original variant belonged to and assigns the new merged variants to the same profiles. Custom shipping rates, carrier-calculated rates, and delivery options stay consistent between your originals and the merged product. If a source variant was on the default profile, the merged variant simply stays on the default too.
It only associates variants with profiles that already exist — it never changes which locations a profile ships from, and never creates new profiles.
Turning it on
- Open Settings → Shipping & delivery.
- Switch on Sync delivery profiles.
- Shopify asks you to grant shipping access the first time. Approve it, and the toggle stays on.
The permission is requested only when you enable the setting. If you later revoke shipping access in Shopify, Merges turns the setting back off automatically so it never silently fails.
When it’s off
Off is the default. Merged products are left untouched, so Shopify puts them on your store’s default delivery profile. After a merge you’ll see a short reminder that delivery-profile sync is off, with a link to enable it.
Plan and permissions
Available on every plan. It is gated only by the Shopify shipping access permission described above — not by your plan tier.
Related
- Settings — every Merges control in one place.
- Managing inventory after product merging — what else transfers at merge time.
- Sync original products — keep stock and pricing aligned after the merge.