Selling Sheet Metal or Power Tools? Your Bottom Line Depends on Shipping
Manufacturing margins are razor-thin. In 2025, carrier surcharges jumped nearly 30%. ShipperHQ helps you win that margin back. Cut costs, convert more customers, and show rock-solid rates at checkout.
Beat Rising Costs with Smarter Shipping
Put accurate rates, best-fit packing logic, and efficient order routing right in your checkout.
Stop undercharging on bulky goods or heavy machinery. ShipperHQ’s proprietary best-fit algorithm factors in box/pallet size, product size, quantity, orientation, padding, and packing rules to return rates that match reality.- Choose live rates from 50+ carriers – including LTL freight. Or use your own flat rates or custom tables. Rate shop automatically across multiple carriers.
- Make LTL freight as easy as small parcel. Auto-apply fees for accessorials like liftgate and inside delivery. Or, let customers select the exact options they need.
- Detect residential vs. commercial addresses instantly to apply correct surcharges before checkout. Avoid absorbing thousands in surcharge fees.
- Build custom pricing logic without custom dev. Set rules based on weight, distance, SKU, order value, customer group, and destination.
Give Customers the Delivery Options They Want
Whether you sell B2B or DTC, all buyers expect a clear and user-friendly shopping experience. ShipperHQ enhances your checkout with flexible shipping choices, precise delivery dates, and transparent pricing.
- Show exact delivery dates based on your real lead times, blackout dates, cutoffs, and production schedules.
- Enable scheduled delivery at checkout so buyers can choose exactly when orders arrive, boosting satisfaction and repeat business.
- Offer flexible shipping options, from white glove delivery to in-store pickup. Show exactly the right options for every cart and every customer.
- Calculate and collect duties & taxes upfront for international orders. Eliminate surprise bills after purchase.
- Add a product page shipping calculator so customers see shipping information before they hit checkout.
Increase Operational Efficiency and Save Time
Manual rate tweaks, complex carrier setups, and endless dev requests slow you down. ShipperHQ automates the heavy lifting so you can focus on growth.
- Route efficiently from multiple warehouses or dropshippers. Merge shipments or split them at checkout – the choice is yours.
- Handle complex scenarios by layering multiple automated rules in the processing order you choose.
- See how orders are packed according to ShipperHQ’s best-fit packing algorithm. Get clear packing visuals to improve packing efficiency.
- View checkout data on how orders are rated so you can accurately replicate shipments and reduce label printing errors.
- Skip expensive custom development with a no-code solution that eliminates time-consuming workflows and tech debt.
Prevent Overcharges on Bulky or Mixed Orders with Dimensional Packing
Rate shipments based on true product dimensions, pallet rules, and padding needs. Perfect for oversized machinery and small components in the same cart.
Set the Right Expectations with Exact Delivery Dates
Display accurate delivery dates at checkout based on your lead times, cutoff times, and blackout days.
Deliver the Small Package Experience for Heavy Freight
Live rates for 30+ LTL carriers, full freight class support, and auto-applied fees for accessorials like liftgate, inside delivery, or limited access.
Calculate and Collect Duties & Taxes Upfront
Show duties, tariffs, and taxes before checkout for international orders. Avoid surprise fees and reduce costly returns.
Ship from the Most Efficient Location with Multi-Origin
Automatically rate and route orders from the nearest warehouse, dropshipper, or plant to cut costs and delivery times.
Tailor Shipping Rates & Methods to Your Business Needs
Set custom rules by SKU, weight, value, region, or customer group. No code required.
"Our smaller item sales increased by 30% with the help of dimensional shipping from ShipperHQ. Sales of our heaviest products are up infinitely as we hadn't had a solution to offer LTL shipping to our customers prior to implementing ShipperHQ. We could not be happier with the performance or the ongoing support to help us offer the best shipping rates that we can."
"We use this App for two different Stores and absolutely love the customizability and user friendly interface."
"Lots of options for customization, and an easy solution for offering shipping options via multiple carriers. Their support team gets things done if you need assistance as well. Thanks ShipperHQ for helping us get things all sorted out as we move over to Shopify!"
"I've been using ShipperHQ for years. It's great for dimensional shipping. It has saved our customers and my company a tremendous amount of time and money. We get accurate shipping costs through the app."
"ShipperHQ allows us to offer our customers specific shipping options and carriers at checkout based on what is in their cart. We have a wide variety of products that vary greatly in size and price. This app allows us to set up complex rules for our shipping options. We've not found any other Shopify app that allows us the same functionality. It's also been very reliable, without any downtime in the 5 years we've used it."
Over 6,000 eCommerce Brands Optimize Their Checkouts with ShipperHQ
FAQs
How do I show accurate LTL freight rates for manufactured goods?
ShipperHQ returns real-time LTL freight rates at checkout from 36+ carrier integrations, reflecting your actual negotiated rates instead of rough estimates. You can also show rates for any carrier you work with using customizable table rates uploaded via CSV, even without a direct integration.
Manufactured goods often exceed parcel size or weight limits. Without LTL integration, most platforms require customers to fill out a form or call for a shipping quote (which increases cart abandonment and slows the sale) or rely on flat estimates that undercharge on heavy shipments and erode margin.
ShipperHQ integrates with 36+ LTL carriers, such as:
- FedEx Freight
- TForce Freight
- ABF Freight
- Averitt
- R+L Carriers
- Saia
- XPO
- Old Dominion
You can assign NMFC freight classes using shipping groups, display multiple carrier options, and control visibility with rules based on product, origin, or customer group.
LTL freight shipping in ShipperHQHow do I show the most competitive freight rate at checkout?
ShipperHQ's Rate Shopping feature compares rates across your configured carriers and presents only the lowest cost option for each shipping method at checkout. For manufacturing merchants working with multiple LTL and parcel carriers, this keeps the checkout clean for wholesale and B2B buyers without any manual rate evaluation on your end.
Another option is to work with a logistics partner like Kuehne+Nagel to access 30+ freight carriers and cut costs.
How do I make sure oversized shipments are rated accurately at checkout?
Unexpected surcharges on large shipments stem from incomplete dimensional data. Carriers apply overlength and oversized charges as flat fees triggered by specific dimensional thresholds, separate from weight-based pricing. Without accurate dimensions at checkout, those charges only appear on the final invoice.
ShipperHQ sends dimensional data to all supported carriers at checkout, so overlength and oversized charges are assessed in real time. It also applies dimensional weight calculations, using the greater of actual or dimensional weight when requesting rates.
Example: a package measuring 24" x 18" x 16" with an actual weight of 10 lbs has a DIM weight of approximately 50 lbs. The carrier bills 50 lbs, not 10. A weight-only calculation would undercharge by 80%.
ShipperHQ supports dimensional rating with 20+ carriers across parcel and LTL freight, including FedEx, UPS, USPS, and DHL. Support for LTL carriers varies by provider.
Learn more about dimensional shipping and packing in ShipperHQHow can I charge for LTL add-on fees like liftgate and residential delivery?
ShipperHQ gives you the option to include accessorial fees in checkout shipping rates so the price your customer sees matches the carrier invoice. Fees are applied based on your no-code shipping configuration in ShipperHQ, so you have full control over your checkout experience.
Residential surcharges can be applied automatically when paired with the ShipperHQ Address Validation feature, which detects whether the destination is residential or commercial. Liftgate, inside delivery, limited access, and scheduled appointment fees can all be included in the shipping rate. With live rate carriers, accessorial fees are returned as part of the real-time quote from the carrier API. Merchants can also set custom surcharges per accessorial in ShipperHQ. Multiple accessorial fees can be combined on a single shipment.
Platform availability for customer-facing accessorial selection varies. On Magento, Adobe Commerce, and Zoey, customers can select optional services like liftgate via checkboxes at checkout, with rates recalculating dynamically. On Shopify and WooCommerce, accessorial options are presented as separate shipping methods. On BigCommerce, accessorial fees are currently auto-included in the freight rate.
See LTL FreightCan I route orders and calculate rates from multiple plants or distribution warehouses?
Yes. ShipperHQ calculates rates from each of your origins and lets you choose whether to display them as merged rates or a split checkout. . Each origin can have its own carriers, rate tables, cutoff times, and blackout days.
You can assign products to specific locations, route orders from the nearest warehouse, or route orders from the fewest warehouses. You can also apply different carriers per origin, like LTL freight from a manufacturing plant and parcel shipping from a distribution center.
On Shopify, ShipperHQ integrates with Shopify Multi-Origin Inventory so rates and delivery dates reflect the actual fulfillment location for each item in the cart.
How do I offer separate shipping rates and options for wholesale distributors and retail buyers?
With ShipperHQ, you can use customer groups to show different rates, carriers, and options to different customer segments, such as wholesale distributors and retail buyers. No separate store fronts are required.
You can show negotiated LTL rates only to wholesale buyers, apply group-specific discounts or free shipping thresholds, and restrict methods like dealer pickup to approved accounts. All configuration is managed in the ShipperHQ dashboard with no code required.
Customer groups are supported on Shopify, BigCommerce, Magento, Adobe Commerce, and WooCommerce.
Learn more about customer group shipping rules in ShipperHQHow do I show delivery dates that include production lead times?
ShipperHQ combines production lead time with carrier transit time so customers see realistic delivery dates, not just a shipping speed that assumes the product is ready to ship today.
You can set lead times and cutoff times at the product level, origin level, or carrier level, giving you control over how production and processing time factor in the date the customer sees. You can also account for holidays and non-working days, and where timelines vary, you can display delivery date ranges instead of a single date.
You can also show ship-by dates at checkout to highlight a competitive advantage like same-day shipping. For LTL freight, some carriers like FedEx Freight and TForce Freight return transit time data that ShipperHQ uses directly. For carriers that don't, you can configure fixed transit times using a table rate carrier so delivery dates are still displayed at checkout.