# Advanced Shipping Rules review (2026): is it worth $9 a month? > Shopify app for custom shipping rates and carrier rules Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Advanced Shipping Rules is a Shopify app from Bambri for setting checkout shipping rates by product group. It combines live carrier rates from UPS, FedEx, USPS and Canada Post with flat or table rates, supports Printful, Printify and Pixels rates, and can hide or restrict methods by zone. - **Category:** Shipping Software - **Made by:** Bambri - **Website:** https://advancedshippingrules.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you are off Shopify: it runs only there. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Advanced Shipping Rules is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $9 per month. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 7-day free trial in live mode; free, unlimited testing in test mode. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Lite | $9 per month | 2 product groups, 1 blended rate, unlimited methods and rules except Hide or Show conditions; Printful, Printify and Pixels rates. | | Standard | $29 per month | 5 product groups, 2 blended rates, package settings, dual-layer dropship, customs and duties, and blending rules. | | Pro | $59 per month | 20 product groups and 3 blended rates, plus sub-zones based on postal code ranges. | | Unlimited | $99 per month | The same features as Pro, with unlimited product groups and blended rates. | Read from https://advancedshippingrules.com/pages/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Advanced Shipping Rules before buying. ## Key features - **Rates by product group:** Different shipping rates for different groups of products, such as dropship vendors, small and heavy items, or free-shipping products. - **Carrier and rule-based rates:** Uses real-time rates from UPS, FedEx, USPS and Canada Post, or builds rates by price, weight or item count with range tables. - **Print-on-demand rates:** Integrates with Printful, Printify and Pixels shipping rate APIs and combines them with rates for your own products. - **Blended rates:** When an order mixes product groups, blending rules can discount, make free or combine each group's rate. Blending rules start on the Standard plan. - **Zone and method restrictions:** Prevents certain products from being ordered to certain zones, or hides shipping methods for some products. Pro adds postal-code sub-zones. ## Good for - Shopify stores with several dropship vendors shipping at different rates - Stores mixing print-on-demand products with their own inventory - Merchants who need free shipping on some products and flat rates on heavy items ## Worth knowing - It runs only on Shopify, and the vendor says Shopify must have the real-time carrier rates feature, which is free on yearly billing or $20 a month a la carte. - Hide or Show conditions are not on Lite, and package settings, customs and duties need Standard or above. - Sub-zones by postal code require the Pro plan or higher. - The Shopify App Store listing shows prices in the visitor's currency; the figures here are the vendor's dollar prices. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Advanced Shipping Rules is a Shopify app for custom rates by product group, zone and carrier. Lite is $9 a month, but Hide or Show conditions are not on Lite, and package settings, customs and duties need Standard at $29. It also needs Shopify's real-time carrier rates, which is free on yearly billing or $20 a month otherwise. - **Value for money: B.** Lite is $9 a month, inside the cheapest quarter for shipping tools ($11 and under). Useful parts sit higher: package settings from $29, postal-code sub-zones from $59. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A 7-day free trial in live mode and free, unlimited testing in test mode. No free plan after that. - **Features: C.** Rates by product group, carrier and rule-based rates, print-on-demand rates, blended rates and zone restrictions. Hide or Show conditions are missing on Lite, and customs and sub-zones need dearer plans. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You build the rate rules yourself inside Shopify. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Shopify only, with UPS, FedEx, USPS, Canada Post, Printful, Printify and Pixels rates. Web admin; no desktop or phone app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from the vendor's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among shipping software - Advanced Shipping Rules's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 42 of the 80 other shipping software we grade, and level with 6. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 56 of 80) and worst on features (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $9 a month, against a middle price of $19.99 for the category: 7 of the 35 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 13 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/shipping ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Advanced Shipping Rules you would be making checkout, card payments and sales tax handled for you. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $108 a year. - You could not: Checkout, card payments and sales tax handled for you. - You could not: Suppliers who ship each order for you. - You could not: Printers that make and ship each order. - You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Shopify, UPS, FedEx, USPS, Canada Post, Printful, Printify, Pixels **Tags:** Online store, Dropshipping, Print on demand, Workflow automation ## Alternatives - [ShipperHQ](https://toolgpa.com/tools/shipperhq): Checkout shipping rates, rules and delivery dates. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/advanced-shipping-rules-vs-shipperhq) - [Intuitive Shipping](https://toolgpa.com/tools/intuitive-shipping): Checkout shipping rate rules for Shopify and BigCommerce. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/advanced-shipping-rules-vs-intuitive-shipping) - [ShippingEasy](https://toolgpa.com/tools/shippingeasy): Shipping software for small sellers, priced by shipments a month. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/advanced-shipping-rules-vs-shippingeasy) - [Shippo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/shippo): Multi-carrier shipping app and API, priced by labels a month. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/advanced-shipping-rules-vs-shippo) - [Easyship](https://toolgpa.com/tools/easyship): Shipping software with 550+ courier services and duty estimates. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/advanced-shipping-rules-vs-easyship) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://advancedshippingrules.com/pages/pricing - https://advancedshippingrules.com - https://advancedshippingrules.com/pages/features - https://apps.shopify.com/vendor-shipping-rules-1 Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/advanced-shipping-rules Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).