Good question. You’re right that merchant-managed delivery profiles are being replaced by market-driven shipping configurations. But to clarify — the existing functionality can indeed be represented with the new model. And in fact, we plan to execute the migration such that merchants will experience no changes to their rates when they move to market-driven shipping.
Roughly how this will work is:
- Zones will be translated to markets, and new sub-country markets will be added if needed to maintain the same region targeting
- Product groupings in profiles will move into product conditions within shipping options.
- Since product conditions target collections, we will create new collections on behalf of the merchant. The collections will be unpublished (not exposed to buyers) and labeled “[SHIPPING] + original profile name” (e.g. “[SHIPPING] Fragile”). The products in the collection will be the ones the merchant had in the corresponding shipping profile prior to migration.
- Location groups will move into location conditions within shipping options
We’ll be publishing more info on how this will work in our help docs as we get closer to the merchant roll out.