Title: Default Shipping Method
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Default Shipping Method

 *  [3XC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sisintl/)
 * (@sisintl)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-shipping-method-2/)
 * Is it possible to set the default shipping method? Currently the shipping method
   defaults to Free Shipping, we renamed this to Freight Shipping, with a note stating
   the customer needs to provide the proper information (orders are processed offline).
   Since its technically still “Free” it defaults to it. We would rather have the
   shipping method default to UPS Ground or at the very least have no shipping methods
   selected by default.
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 *  Plugin Contributor [Claudio Sanches](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claudiosanches/)
 * (@claudiosanches)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-shipping-method-2/#post-7552570)
 * Now with Shipping Zones we don’t have a default shipping method, the default 
   selected will be always the first one.
 *  Thread Starter [3XC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sisintl/)
 * (@sisintl)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-shipping-method-2/#post-7552624)
 * That’s what I thought and since the UPS shipping extension isn’t used within 
   the new Shipping Zones I can’t rearrange them. Do you know of code, or maybe 
   point me in the right direction, that would force UPS options first?
 *  Plugin Contributor [Mike Jolley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikejolley/)
 * (@mikejolley)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-shipping-method-2/#post-7552675)
 * Not currently possible. UPS will be supporting zones in the near future.

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## Tags

 * [shipping](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/shipping/)
 * [shipping method](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/shipping-method/)
 * [UPS shipping](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/ups-shipping/)

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 * Last reply from: [Mike Jolley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikejolley/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-shipping-method-2/#post-7552675)
 * Status: not resolved