For Black Friday, schedule a shipping discount that makes Standard free over your threshold and takes $10 off Express, measured before your sale codes so a 20% code can’t knock a cart under the line. Shopify’s own free shipping discount makes every eligible rate free, including Express. RM: Advanced Free Shipping targets rates by name, checks the cart before or after discounts, and switches on and off by date. It costs $9.90 USD every 30 days, with a 7-day free trial, billed by Shopify.

In 2026, Black Friday is Friday, November 27, and Cyber Monday is Monday, November 30.

The offer

  • Free Standard shipping on carts of $50 or more, before discounts.
  • $10 off Express on the same carts.
  • Runs from Thursday, November 26 at 12:00 AM to Monday, November 30 at 11:59 PM, store time.

What customers pay

The store’s rates are Standard at $7.95 and Express at $19.95. A sitewide code, BF20, takes 20% off products.

  • $60 cart with BF20: products come to $48. The cart was $60 before the code, so it qualifies. Standard shows $7.95 Free, and Express shows $19.95 $9.95. With Standard, the customer pays $48.00.
  • $40 cart with BF20: products come to $32. Under $50 before discounts, so Standard costs $7.95 and the customer pays $39.95.
  • $120 cart, no code: Standard is free and Express is $9.95. With Express, the customer pays $129.95.

With Cart total instead, the $60 cart would drop to $48 and lose free shipping. Use Cart total if you want the threshold measured after discounts. See threshold before or after discounts.

Set it up the week before

  1. Click Create Shipping Discount and choose Automatic discount under Discount method. Give it a Title customers will see, such as “Black Friday free shipping”.
  2. Under Conditions, add Cart subtotal Is at least 50.
  3. Under Discount setup, choose Shipping, Choose specific rates, pick Standard, and set Discount value to Free.
  4. In the ⋯ menu on Discount setup, choose Add delivery discount. Pick Express and set Fixed Amount Off 10.
  5. Leave Product discounts and Order discounts ticked under Combinations.
  6. Set Active dates last, after testing (below).

The Create shipping discount page in RM: Advanced Free Shipping with Discount method, Customers, Conditions, Discount setup, Purchase type, Combinations and Active dates cards, and a Test mode switch

Test it before the weekend

Shopify doesn’t run a discount before its start date, so test first and schedule after:

  1. Create it with Test mode on and the start date set to now.
  2. At checkout, enter ABC123 as the shipping first name. Try a $49 cart, a $50 cart, and a cart with BF20 applied.
  3. Change the Start date to November 26 at 12:00 AM. Tick Set end date and choose November 30 at 11:59 PM. Times use your store’s timezone.
  4. Turn off Test mode and save. The dashboard shows Scheduled until it starts and Expired after it ends.

Full steps: schedule free shipping and test a shipping discount.

Make your sale codes work with it

Both discounts must allow combining. Open BF20, or any automatic sale, in Shopify admin and tick Shipping discounts under Combinations. Codes from email and loyalty apps need the same setting. The app’s dashboard flags active product and order discounts that don’t combine with shipping, so check it before the weekend.

Tiers for bigger carts

Want free Express over $150 too? Create a second discount: Cart subtotal Is at least 150, Choose specific rates, Express, Free, with the same dates. Shopify applies one shipping discount per rate and gives the customer the one that saves the most, so carts over $150 get free Express. See tiered shipping discounts.

Before you launch

  • Shopify allows 25 active automatic discounts across all apps, including scheduled ones. Count your Black Friday automatics.
  • Match your free shipping bar and banners to $50. The app discounts the rate. It doesn’t add a banner.
  • If your Standard rate is a live carrier rate with a varying name, type a keyword like “Ground” and choose the wildcard match.

For the rest of the season, see Free Shipping Day, holiday shipping cut-offs and free shipping weekends. For the rate targeting itself, see free standard shipping, not express.

RM: Advanced Free Shipping is Built for Shopify and rated 5.0 on the Shopify App Store. It costs $9.90 USD every 30 days after a 7-day free trial, billed by Shopify. Install it from the Shopify App Store.