045 Systems 04

Delivery Costs AI

In build

Shows a shopper what delivery will actually cost, on the product page, before they commit to anything. It asks for one thing — their postcode — and it never touches their cart to find out.

System04
PlatformSHOPIFY
StateARMED
01 / FUNCTION

What it
does

Delivery cost is the question a shopper asks before they buy and most stores answer after. They add the item, start the checkout, and find out there what it costs to get it to them — which is the most expensive possible moment to be surprised.

01

The shopper types one thing

Their postcode. No street address, no account, no state dropdown to get past first. And usually not even that: it remembers what they typed and fills it in on every other product they look at.

02

It never touches their cart

The quote runs on a throwaway cart of its own that the shopper never sees. Nothing is added to the real one to get a price, and nothing is cleared out of it afterwards. A shopper who was mid-order stays mid-order.

03

It answers in about two seconds

Real carrier rates for that destination, not a table you have to keep up to date. While they arrive the page holds two rate-shaped rows in their place, so nothing on the page jumps when the prices land.

04

Every option, ranked and in your words

Cheapest first, with at most two badges so the badges still mean something. Carrier names your customers do not recognise become the words you would have used, and the ones you never wanted shown do not show.

02 / LOOKUP

One postcode,
priced

What the shopper enters, and what comes back, on one product. The rates below are real ones we measured against our own store; the layout is the designed behaviour rather than a recording. The last exchange is the one worth reading — the dead end is a designed state here, not a spinner that ends in nothing.

Product page · delivery lookup
Delivery Costs AI · system 04 Design preview
Shopper enters 4000
Delivery Costs AI Three ways to get this to Brisbane 4000. Kerbside delivery $21.00, five to seven business days. Standard $26.40, three to five business days. Express $41.90, next business day. Cheapest and fastest are marked; the middle one is left alone. Estimate — the final cost is confirmed at checkout. Answered in 1.9s Cart untouched
Shopper enters 0872
Delivery Costs AI That postcode covers a very large area across three states, so it asks which one — the only time a second field appears. Remote NT: road freight $44.00, seven to ten business days. One option, and it says so rather than padding the list. Ambiguous postcode · region confirmed
Shopper enters 6798
Delivery Costs AI Christmas Island, and this store does not have a rate that reaches it. It says that plainly, in one line, and offers the store’s own quote route instead of leaving a spinner turning. A shopper who cannot buy still gets an answer and somewhere to go. No rate · quote route offered
Illustration: real measured rates on one of our own products, shown in the designed layout
03 / SEQUENCE

How it
goes in

Four steps, and none of them touch your rates. It reads what your store already quotes and shows it earlier. Your checkout keeps doing exactly what it does now.

01

Install

Add it to your store and drop the block onto your product page in the theme editor, where you can see it while you move it.

Step 01
02

Pick how it sits on the page

A quiet link that opens, an open panel, or a card that is always there. Colours, corners and type come from your theme settings, not ours.

Step 02
03

Say what the rates should be called

Rename, reorder, recolour or hide any rate your store returns, and set the free shipping threshold you want a shopper to see themselves getting closer to.

Step 03
04

Watch where they are shopping from

Counts of the destinations people asked about, and the ones you had no rate for. Aggregate counts only — we never store a postcode against a person.

Step 04
04 / SPECIFICATION

The
detail

The storefront half of this one is built and proven against real carrier rates. The merchant side is not finished, so the last two rows stay blank rather than carry something we have to walk back.

Platform Shopify.
Surface Your product page, and your cart page if you want it there too.
Asks for A postcode. A country selector appears only if you ship to more than one, and a state only for the handful of postcodes that genuinely span two.
Quotes The live carrier rates your own store would return for that destination. Not a rate table we hold a copy of.
Speed About two seconds warm, measured on our own store rather than estimated.
Leaves alone The shopper’s cart, their session, and your checkout. Nothing is added or cleared to get a price.
Stores Aggregate destination counts. No shopper personal information, ever, and no postcode tied to a person.
Status In build. The storefront lookup is working and proven against real carrier rates; the merchant admin and billing are not finished.
Pricing A free plan is intended and the paid tiers are not settled. To confirm
Availability No date published yet. To confirm
05 / COMMS

Ask us
about it

If you sell anything heavy, bulky or freight-only, tell us the postcode your rates argue about most. We will run it and send you back what your own store returns.