Cart Conditions

Cart conditions look at the order as a whole rather than at individual products. They’re the most common way to build free-shipping thresholds and weight-based rules.

This page covers cart conditions for Shipping Rates. For the customization equivalent, see Cart Conditions under Shipping Customizations — the available attributes differ.

Available attributes

Attribute	Operators	Value
Cart Quantity	Equals, Does Not Equal, Greater Than, Less Than, Greater Than or Equal, Less Than or Equal	Number of items
Cart Subtotal (total before discount)	Equals, Does Not Equal, Greater Than, Less Than, Greater Than or Equal, Less Than or Equal	Amount in store currency
Cart Total (total after discount)	Equals, Does Not Equal, Greater Than, Less Than, Greater Than or Equal, Less Than or Equal	Amount in store currency
Cart Weight	Equals, Does Not Equal, Greater Than, Less Than, Greater Than or Equal, Less Than or Equal	Weight in your store’s unit
Cart Volume	Equals, Does Not Equal, Greater Than, Less Than, Greater Than or Equal, Less Than or Equal	Volume in mm³
Cart Contains	Depends on the sub-attribute you pick	See Cart Contains
Cart Does Not Contain	Depends on the sub-attribute you pick	See Cart Contains
Cart Locale	Equals, Does Not Equal, Contains, Does Not Contain	Shopify locale code

Subtotal before or after discount?

These two are easy to confuse, and picking the wrong one is a common source of surprise:

Cart Subtotal (total before discount) — the cart value ignoring discount codes.
Cart Total (total after discount) — what the customer actually pays for goods.

For a free-shipping threshold, decide deliberately which one you want. Using Cart Subtotal means a discount code can drop a customer below your threshold and they would still be eligible for free shipping.

Cart Contains

Cart Contains and Cart Does Not Contain are different from the other attributes: instead of comparing one cart-level number, they ask whether any product in the cart matches a condition. When you pick one, you then choose a product attribute to test against — Product Tag, Product Type, Product Metafield, and so on — and give it an operator and value, exactly as you would in a product condition.

Quantity and amount checks

Cart Contains adds one more control, letting you require a certain quantity or value of matching products rather than just their presence:

Option	Meaning
Cart contains at least one product	Default. Any matching product satisfies the condition.
Cart contains more than X products	Matching products must total more than X units.
Cart contains less than X products	Matching products must total fewer than X units.
Cart contains more than X amount	Matching products must total more than X in value.
Cart contains less than X amount	Matching products must total less than X in value.

Cart Contains is how you write “if the cart has any fragile item” without forcing the whole cart to be fragile. A plain Product Tag condition applies per line item; Cart Contains asks a question about the cart.

Cart Locale

Matches the locale the customer is browsing in — useful for language-specific rates. Enter the Shopify locale code (en, fr, de-DE). You can enter several separated by semicolons.

Examples

Free shipping over $100, before discounts are applied

Rule must match: All conditions
Condition 1: Cart Subtotal (total before discount) <> Greater Than or Equal <> 100

A surcharge when the cart is heavy

Rule must match: All conditions
Condition 1: Cart Weight <> Greater Than <> 20

A handling fee when the cart holds more than 3 fragile items

Rule must match: All conditions
Condition 1: Cart Contains <> Product Tag <> Equals <> fragile
             Quantity check: Cart contains more than X products, Quantity: 3

Product Attributes

Match on tags, type, SKU, weight, dimensions, and metafields.

Customer Attributes

Match on customer tags and names.

Location and Address

Match on postcode, country, province, and warehouse.

Ranged Rates

Turn a cart value into a sliding scale of prices.

Getting started

Core Concepts

Shipping Rates

Shipping Customizations

Advanced Features

Troubleshooting

Available attributes

Subtotal before or after discount?

Cart Contains

Quantity and amount checks

Cart Locale

Examples

Product Attributes

Customer Attributes

Location and Address

Ranged Rates

​Available attributes

​Subtotal before or after discount?

​Cart Contains

​Quantity and amount checks

​Cart Locale

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Product Attributes

Customer Attributes

Location and Address

Ranged Rates

Available attributes

Subtotal before or after discount?

Cart Contains

Quantity and amount checks

Cart Locale

Examples

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