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Shopify Flow adds automatic shipping label purchases

Shopify's October 15, 2026 announcement lets merchants use Flow to buy shipping labels automatically for orders that meet their chosen conditions.

1 min read Source: changelog.shopify.com

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What changed: Merchants can now purchase shipping labels through a Shopify Flow action. They can configure order conditions, carrier, service, package type, weight and shipping date. Flow purchases labels as matching orders arrive, making them available to print from the Shipping labels page. Orders outside the conditions remain untouched.

Who is affected

The update concerns Shopify merchants that want to automate shipping label purchases using Flow.

What it means for your business

For businesses using Shopify Flow, this means qualifying orders can receive automatically purchased shipping labels that are ready to print from the Shipping labels page.

What to do

Open the ready-made workflow template in Flow. Configure the order conditions, carrier, service, package type, weight and shipping date for your store, then activate the workflow.

When it takes effect

The feature is available now; the source does not specify a separate effective date.

Source: https://changelog.shopify.com/posts/buy-shipping-labels-automatically-with-shopify-flow

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