Ship to Multiple Addresses in One Shopify Checkout
Anyone who's tried to buy gifts for multiple people from a Shopify store knows the problem. You find everything you want, add it all to your cart, get to checkout, and realize you can only ship to one address. So you place one order for your mom, go back to the store, add items for your sister at a different address, check out again, then do it a third time for your friend across the country. Three orders, three sets of shipping costs, three confirmation emails, one annoyed customer.
Shopify's checkout is built for single-destination orders. That works for most purchases, but it creates real friction for customers who need items sent to more than one place. And it's not just holiday gifting. Corporate buyers distributing products to multiple offices, event planners sending supplies to different venues, parents shipping care packages to kids at separate colleges, wholesale customers splitting deliveries across locations. These are all common shopping scenarios, and all of them require the customer to place multiple separate orders on most Shopify stores.
We built Multi Ship to fix that.
How it works
Multi Ship lets your customers assign different shipping addresses to different items in their cart and check out once. The customer goes through a single checkout, and Multi Ship automatically splits the order into separate child orders behind the scenes, one per destination, each ready for independent fulfillment.
Your team picks, packs, and ships each destination separately, which is how you'd handle it anyway if the customer had placed three orders. The difference is the customer only had to check out once, and you get all the revenue in one transaction instead of risking them abandoning after the first order.
On the fulfillment side, nothing changes about your existing workflow. The child orders show up in your Shopify admin like any other order. If you use ShipStation or another third-party fulfillment app, the split orders flow through normally.
What your customers can do
Each destination in the order is independent. Customers can add a gift note and delivery instructions per address, so the right message goes in the right box and the driver knows to leave one package at the back door and ring the bell for the other.
There's also a delivery date picker per destination. If your customer is sending a birthday gift that needs to arrive on a specific day and a separate item to their own address whenever it gets there, they can set different delivery dates for each.
For returning customers, saved addresses carry over, so someone who regularly sends to the same set of people doesn't have to re-enter everything each time.
Who this is for
Multi Ship isn't something every store needs. If you sell a single product and most of your customers are buying for themselves, this won't change much for you.
It's built for stores where customers regularly want to send items to more than one person. Gift-heavy brands, corporate and B2B sellers, food and beverage companies that do a lot of "send a box to someone" business, stores that see a big spike in multi-recipient orders during holidays. If you get support tickets from customers asking whether they can ship to multiple addresses, or if you notice people placing several small orders in a row to different addresses, that's the signal.
Multi Ship is available now on the Shopify App Store. Free to install.
