# Boxing Day free shipping on Shopify that starts at midnight by itself 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](https://apps.shopify.com/better-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](/images/dashboard.png) 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](/campaigns/holiday-shipping.md), 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](/guides/tiered-shipping-discounts.md). - **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. ## Related - [Black Friday free shipping](/campaigns/black-friday-free-shipping.md) - [Schedule free shipping](/guides/schedule-free-shipping.md) - [Test a shipping discount](/guides/test-a-shipping-discount.md) - [Keep free shipping with discount codes](/guides/keep-free-shipping-with-discount-codes.md) 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](https://apps.shopify.com/better-free-shipping).