Title: Setting default shipping method does not work
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Setting default shipping method does not work

 *  [nilrog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nilrog/)
 * (@nilrog)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-default-shipping-method-does-not-work/)
 * I have two shipping options enabled. Fixed price & local pickup (free). According
   the the setting there is a “Selection priority” you can set on each shipping 
   method that will determine which one is selected by default. But regardless of
   how I try to change this value local pickup is always default.
 * How can I change it so that the fixed price option is selected by default?
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 *  [HighRollerUSA](https://wordpress.org/support/users/highrollerusa/)
 * (@highrollerusa)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-default-shipping-method-does-not-work/#post-6566835)
 * I’m having the same problem. I have Per Product Shipping and UPS enabled in that
   order. But no matter how I set the shipping Selection Priority, it always selects
   UPS by default.
 * How do we set the default shipping option?
 *  [spaciousmind](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spaciousmind/)
 * (@spaciousmind)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-default-shipping-method-does-not-work/#post-6566931)
 * Was having the same problem and was about to post here to add a +1 to the thread,
   but I just tried flipping them (so that First Priority = 0, Second Priority =
   1 instead of vice-versa) and now it works for me.

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 * Last reply from: [spaciousmind](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spaciousmind/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-default-shipping-method-does-not-work/#post-6566931)
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