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title: New Tools to Help Merchants Provide Accurate Shipping
description: Google introduced a new set of shipping tools in the Merchant Center to help merchants display more accurate shipping prices. Here's what you need to know.
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# [New Tools to Help Merchants Provide Accurate Shipping](https://www.commonmind.com/blog/new-merchant-shipping-tools)

 Written by [Kat Cancio](https://www.commonmind.com/blog/author/kat-cancio) | Apr 30, 2019 4:00:00 AM

On August 5, 2014, Google introduced a new set of tools that can help merchants provide more accurate shipping prices for orders. [The new shipping configuration tool](https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/6069284?hl=en) features:

- **Comprehensive account-level settings**: Account-level settings now include more comprehensive shipping configurations. Most merchants can express their shipping models at the account-level.
- **Four shipping models**: Express your shipping rates in 4 different models. You can base your account-level settings on factors like  ‘weight,’ ‘price,’ or ‘shipping label,’ or you can base it on shipping destinations like state, city, or postal code. Once you’ve established a shipping model, you can store it in a shared library and easily reuse the information across various custom configurations.
- **Display the lowest rates to users**: If you provide multiple shipping methods for the same country, Google will calculate the lowest rate for a product and display that price to users. You will no longer need to set a default shipping method since Google will guarantee the lowest rate will be shown.
- **No change to tax settings**: Please note that there are no changes to the tax configuration settings except that Google has split the tax and shipping settings into two separate tabs in the Merchant Center.
- **New attributes and sub-attributes**: A new “shipping label” can be used to segment products into different shipping rule configurations. Also available are new sub-attributes for tax and shipping that allow you to specify locations where additional shipping or tax rates may apply. Click here to learn more about [the new shipping attributes](https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/188494#tax).

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