Shipping Complex Products? Stay Compliant While You Do It.

ShipperHQ's Shipping Rules let you block specific carriers, methods, or all delivery options based on destination — by state, zip code, country, or address type. You set the conditions once in the dashboard and ShipperHQ enforces them automatically at checkout. If a shopper enters a restricted address, non-compliant options simply don't appear. No manual intervention, no exceptions to catch after the fact. To target specific products, you assign them to a shipping group and apply rules at that group level — a single product gets its own group, while related products that share the same restrictions can be grouped together.

Yes. ShipperHQ lets you assign products to shipping groups and build rules that show or hide specific carriers and methods based on what's in the cart. If a product can only ship via FedEx Ground due to its hazmat classification, you can enforce that exclusively — hiding UPS, USPS, and any air freight options automatically. For mixed carts containing both hazmat and standard items, Multi-Origin lets you associate specific shipping groups and carriers to specific origins — so hazmat items ship ground from one location while non-hazardous items ship from a different origin entirely, with their own carriers and transit times. Enhanced Checkout surfaces this as a seamless experience at checkout, without exposing the complexity to the shopper.

Carrier hazmat surcharges can be surfaced directly in your checkout rates so customers see the real cost of their shipment upfront. You can configure hazmat fees by product type, carrier, or shipping zone using Shipping Rules, and ShipperHQ applies them automatically based on what's in the cart. This eliminates the common problem of merchants absorbing hazmat fees because their checkout wasn't built to pass them on accurately. You can also use Rate Shopping to find the best available hazmat-eligible rate across carriers in real time, so you're never overpaying when alternatives exist.

ShipperHQ's Delivery Date and Time gives you the controls to set a max time-in-transit. For live goods, this is the difference between a viable shipment and a dead one — if your live plants need to arrive within three days, shoppers will only see methods that can actually meet that window. Delivery dates shown at checkout also factor in your lead times and order cutoffs, so arrival estimates are accurate, not just raw carrier transit times.

Yes. ShipperHQ's product page shipping calculator lets you surface estimated delivery dates before shoppers even reach checkout. For live goods this is particularly useful because it allows buyers to self-qualify — they can confirm an item will arrive within its viability window before adding it to cart. Estimates account for your lead times, order cutoffs, and carrier transit times, so the information shoppers see is accurate and operationally grounded.

Yes. ShipperHQ integrates with 30+ LTL freight carriers and supports live freight rate retrieval at checkout — including accessorials like liftgate delivery, hazmat fees, and limited access surcharges. For larger chemical, industrial, or agricultural shipments that exceed small-parcel weight limits, LTL is often the only viable option, and most ecommerce platforms have no native support for it. ShipperHQ bridges that gap, letting you offer accurate LTL rates alongside parcel options in a single unified checkout experience.

ShipperHQ's compliance logic is product-agnostic — it works for any category where shipping rules, carrier restrictions, or transit requirements apply. Common use cases include industrial chemicals, cleaning products, adhesives, flammable liquids, agricultural chemicals, batteries, live plants, live insects, and live aquatic animals. The configuration is built around your specific products and carriers, not a predefined hazmat taxonomy, so it adapts to whatever combination of restrictions your catalog requires.