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title: How to Apply Shipping Methods to Specific Products
description: With Volusion, you can assign a special shipping method to orders with an extreme weight or circumstances.
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# How to Apply Shipping Methods to Specific Products
With Volusion, you can assign a special shipping method to orders with an extreme weight or circumstances. While there currently isn't a function to assign shipping methods on a product-by-product basis, you can use the existing shipping method controls to create a custom workaround.
**IMPORTANT!**
You should not use this method if your store has any active [live shipping rates](https://help.volusion.com/s/shipping?hsLang=en-us). If you have any live shipping rates active and an extreme-weight product is added to the cart, you and your customers will experience extreme delays on your store's shoppingcart.asp and/or one-page-checkout.asp pages.
Make sure that no feasible combination of other products could meet or exceed this weight.
1. From the Admin Area, go to **Settings** \> **Shipping**.
2. Click **Add Rate** next to the **Flat Rates** heading to create a custom shipping method.
3. Enter a name for the method and mark it as **Active**.
4. Enter the shipping cost for products using this method in the **Base** rate field. Make sure the **Cost Per Lb** field is blank.
5. In the shipping method's **Qualifying Orders** section, configure the **Minimum** weight to an extreme value, such as "6000".
6. Click **Save**.
The configured shipping method will now be applicable to products that have with a weight of "6000" or higher. To set products with a weight so that orders containing them will only use this method:
1. Go to **Inventory** \> **Products**.
2. Click the **Product Code** of the product for which you want to use this method.
3. Set the **Weight** of the product to "6000" or whatever you used in step 4.
4. Click **Save**.
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