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title: Shipping profile column ready for market-driven shipping
date: 2026-09-11
description: Product imports with the Variant Shipping Profile column now work safely on stores that moved to Shopify's market-driven shipping.
tags: ["Products","Imports"]
categories: ["Changelog"]
url: https://www.getaltera.com/changelog/2026-09-11-shipping-profile-column-market-driven-shipping/
---
Shopify is moving shipping settings out of shipping profiles and into Markets. This update keeps product imports that use the **Variant Shipping Profile** column working on both kinds of store.

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### 🔧 Improvements

- **Market-driven shipping** – imports on stores that moved to market-driven shipping skip the column with a clear warning instead of calling an API that no longer applies.
- **Profile name matching** – `General Profile` now matches Shopify's `General profile`, and a profile ID matches its profile, so unchanged rows no longer trigger an update.

### 🐛 Fixes

- **Default profile round trips** – re-importing an export with `General Profile` no longer fails the product with "Default Profile product variant cannot be dissociated".
- **Rejected profile changes** – when Shopify refuses to move a variant, the row now imports with a warning instead of failing.

### ⚠️ Heads-up

- **Shipping profiles are going away** – Shopify moves every store to market-driven shipping by July 2027; from then on, shipping rates apply to products by collection rather than by profile.