Advanced Shipping Rates vs Mergerate: Combined Shipping
Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Oct 23, 2026 for Advanced Shipping Rates, Nov 6, 2026 for Mergerate.
The short answer
- Paid plans start at $12/month for Advanced Shipping Rates and $24/month for Mergerate.
- Advanced Shipping Rates lists 6 features Mergerate’s listing doesn’t mention, including Address validation, Multi-zone, Product-based.
Head to head
Shipment Rate by State, City, ZipCode, Price or Weight
Momentum
New reviews each month
Review pace is the clearest public read on how fast an app is winning new merchants.
BASIC
- · Fallback shipping rate
- · Rates by weight, quantity or cart value
- · Unlimited shipping rates
- · Unlimited zip codes, cities & countries
- · Zip code ranges & wildcards
ADVANCED
- · Everything in Basic
- · Excluded shipping areas
- · Free shipping products
- · Scheduled free shipping
ENTERPRISE
- · CSV import & export
- · Delivery dates on Order status page
- · Delivery dates on Thank you page
- · Everything in Advanced
- · Free for development stores
- · Product & cart page shipping calculator
Standard
- · Combined rates across locations
- · Rate request log
- · Your own flat rates by country
Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.
See every featureSet the exact shipping price for every order. Create unlimited rates for postal codes (with wildcards and ranges), cities, states or countries, and price them by weight, item quantity, cart value or a flat rate. Add free shipping over a minimum spend, schedule it for sales, and choose products that always ship free or never do. A fallback rate keeps checkout working when no rate matches.
When an order ships from more than one location, Shopify adds each location's app and carrier rates together, so a split cart can be charged shipping twice. Mergerate is a carrier service: it charges your own rates on one shipment and returns the same options at $0 on the others, with a label you choose. Set flat prices, countries and delivery estimates; it works best with flat rates.
- Specify the shipping zones by city, state, zip/postal code, and country.
- Calculate rates based on the cart’s weight, total price, and quantity of items.
- Offer free shipping on minimum spend and add specific dates.
- Specify free shipping products.
- Split-cart rate requests answered as one shipping charge per order
- Your own flat rates, by country, with delivery estimates
- The same options at $0 on the other shipments, labelled
- Delivery estimates and your own label on the $0 shipments
All the numbers
Every figure, side by side
A green dot marks the app ahead on a measured figure. Estimates, gaps and apps that leave no storefront trace never take the lead.
Adoption
| Measure |  Advanced Shipping Rates | |
|---|---|---|
| Detected stores | Not published | Not published |
| Net store change, 28 days | 0 | 0 |
| Stores added, 28 days | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Big-brand share | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Top store categories | Not published | Not published |
| Top store countries | Not published | Not published |
Reviews
| Measure | Advanced Shipping Rates | |
|---|---|---|
| App Store rating | 3.2 ★ | Not published |
| App Store reviews | 3 | Not published |
| New reviews, 28 days | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Reviewers a year or more in | Not enough data | Not enough data |
Pricing
| Measure | Advanced Shipping Rates | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Not listed | Not listed |
| Lowest paid monthly plan | $12/month(ahead) | $24/month |
| Longest free trial | 14 days | 14 days |
| Plans listed | 3 | 1 |
Listing
| Measure | Advanced Shipping Rates | |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify category rank | #245 | Not enough data |
| Shopify App Charts | Not on this week’s charts | Not on this week’s charts |
| Built for Shopify | No | No |
| Launched | Aug 11, 2021 | Nov 5, 2026 |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Developer | LogicEverest | Sam Bartolotta |
FAQ
Advanced Shipping Rates and Mergerate: common questions
- Is Advanced Shipping Rates or Mergerate cheaper?
- Paid plans start at $12/month for Advanced Shipping Rates and $24/month for Mergerate. Shoplist compares base prices only between monthly plans in the same currency; usage charges and annual plans vary, so check each plan’s limits.
- What features does each app list that the other doesn’t?
- Advanced Shipping Rates lists 6 the others don’t mention, such as Address validation, Multi-zone, Product-based, Quantity-based. Mergerate lists 2 the others don’t mention, such as Carrier-based, Multi-origin. A feature missing from a listing may still be supported; this compares what each App Store listing says.
- Where does this comparison’s data come from?
- Shoplist crawls Shopify storefronts to detect which apps each store runs, and reads each app’s Shopify App Store listing for reviews, pricing, features and integrations. Store counts are as of Oct 23, 2026 for Advanced Shipping Rates, Nov 6, 2026 for Mergerate; estimated figures are labeled.
How Shoplist compares apps
Store counts come from Shoplist’s crawl of Shopify storefronts, which detects the apps each store runs; they are as of Oct 23, 2026 for Advanced Shipping Rates, Nov 6, 2026 for Mergerate. Reviews, ratings, plans, features and integrations come from each app’s Shopify App Store listing. 28-day figures are labeled when estimated, and a figure that is missing or estimated never decides who leads. Read the methodology.