For Boxing Day, schedule a shipping discount that starts at 12:00 AM on December 26, makes standard delivery free and sets next day delivery to a fixed £3.99 on carts of £40 or more, measured before your sale codes. Set it up before Christmas and it switches on while you’re away. Shopify’s own free shipping discount makes every eligible rate free and can’t set a rate to a fixed price. RM: Advanced Free Shipping targets rates by name, sets a different discount on each, and starts and ends by date. It costs $9.90 USD every 30 days, with a 7-day free trial, billed by Shopify.

This page uses a UK store that sells in GBP. Amounts you enter are in your store’s currency, so other stores follow the same steps in theirs.

The offer

  • Free Standard Delivery on carts of £40 or more, before discounts.
  • Next Day Delivery at a fixed £3.99 on the same carts.
  • From December 26 at 12:00 AM to an end date you choose. In this example, December 31 at 11:59 PM, store time.

What customers pay

In this example, the store’s rates are Standard Delivery at £3.95 and Next Day Delivery at £7.99. A sitewide code, BOXING30, takes 30% off products.

  • £50 cart with BOXING30: products come to £35.00. The cart was £50 before the code, so it qualifies. Standard Delivery shows £3.95 Free, and Next Day shows £7.99 £3.99. With Standard Delivery, the customer pays £35.00. With Next Day, £38.99.
  • £35 cart with BOXING30: products come to £24.50. Under £40 before discounts, so the customer pays £28.45 with Standard Delivery.

With Cart total instead, the £50 cart would drop to £35 and lose free delivery. Use Cart total only if you want the threshold measured after discounts.

Set it up before Christmas

  1. Click Create Shipping Discount and choose Automatic discount under Discount method. Use a Title such as “Boxing Day free delivery”.
  2. Under Conditions, add Cart subtotal Is at least 40.
  3. Under Discount setup, choose Shipping, Choose specific rates, pick Standard Delivery, and set Discount value to Free.
  4. In the ⋯ menu on Discount setup, choose Add delivery discount. Pick Next Day Delivery and set Fixed Price 3.99. A rate already under £3.99 stays as it is, so it never goes up.
  5. Leave Product discounts and Order discounts ticked under Combinations.

If carrier rate names vary at checkout, type a keyword such as “Next Day” and choose the wildcard match.

Test it, then schedule it

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 £39 cart, a £40 cart, and a £50 cart with BOXING30 applied.
  3. Under Active dates, change the Start date to December 26 at 12:00 AM. Tick Set end date and choose your end date at 11:59 PM.
  4. Turn off Test mode and save.

Times use your store’s timezone, which is shown next to the time fields.

The RM: Advanced Free Shipping dashboard listing five sample shipping discounts with Active, Test, Scheduled and Expired statuses, including $5 express over $50 marked Scheduled and SUMMER50 marked Expired

The dashboard shows Scheduled until Boxing Day and Expired after it ends.

Make your sale codes work with it

Both discounts must allow combining. Open BOXING30, or your automatic Boxing Day sale, in Shopify admin and tick Shipping discounts under Combinations. The app’s dashboard flags active product and order discounts that don’t combine with shipping.

Follow on from your holiday shipping

If you ran a pre-Christmas offer, such as the cut-off setup in holiday shipping, end it before December 26. When two shipping discounts overlap on a rate, Shopify applies only the one that saves the customer the most.

Variations

  • Free next day on big carts. Add a second discount: Cart subtotal Is at least 100, Next Day Delivery, Free, same dates. See tiered shipping discounts.
  • Domestic only. Add Shipping country Is one of United Kingdom.

Shopify allows 25 active automatic discounts across all apps, including scheduled ones. Update your banners to £40. The app discounts the rate. It doesn’t change your storefront.

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.