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Set up free shipping

Reward bigger carts with free delivery. Set a spend threshold, choose where it applies, and optionally nudge shoppers with a "spend a little more" banner at checkout.

🖥 Web 📱 Mobile

Free shipping is one of the most reliable ways to lift average order value — shoppers will happily add one more item to clear the bar. Crate lets you set a spend threshold so delivery is only free when it makes sense for your margins.

How the threshold works

You pick a single number — the threshold. Once a customer's cart reaches it, their delivery fee drops to zero at checkout and they see a Free shipping unlocked message. Below the threshold, your normal rates apply as usual.

Tip: Set your threshold a little above your average order value. If most carts land around ₦15,000, a ₦20,000 bar nudges shoppers to add one more thing — without giving away delivery on orders you'd ship anyway.

Scope it to where it pays

Free shipping doesn't have to be all-or-nothing. With Applies to you can limit the offer to a region (say, your home city where delivery is cheapest) or to specific shipping zones. And the optional cart banner — spend ₦X more for free shipping — turns the threshold into a live incentive while shoppers browse.

  1. 1
    Open Shipping

    From your Crate dashboard, open Shipping in the sidebar (under Operations). This is where every delivery rule for your store lives.

    Set up free shipping: step 1 (web)
    Web
    Set up free shipping: step 1 (mobile)
    Mobile
  2. 2
    Go to Free shipping

    Open the Free shipping rule. Crate gives free shipping its own page so you can tune the threshold without touching your other rates.

    Set up free shipping: step 2 (web)
    Web
  3. 3
    Set your threshold

    Tick Enable free shipping and enter the cart Threshold — the amount a customer must spend to unlock it (for example ₦20,000).

    Set up free shipping: step 3 (web)
    Web
    Set up free shipping: step 3 (mobile)
    Mobile
  4. 4
    Choose where it applies

    Use Applies to to scope the offer — all orders, a single region, or specific shipping zones. Optionally turn on the cart banner that tells shoppers how much more to spend.

    Set up free shipping: step 4 (web)
    Web
  5. 5
    Save the rule

    Click Save rule. Crate confirms with Free-shipping rule saved and the offer is live at checkout.

    Set up free shipping: step 5 (web)
    Web