13 Exclude Items from Shipping Methods and Costs

This section describes how to use the Commerce Admin APIs to exclude certain items from the calculation of shipping costs or from being shipped by certain methods.

• You can exclude item from a specific shipping method. For example, you might want to restrict certain products, such as oversized items or furniture, to ground shipping only. When a shopper adds a product from an excluded category to his or her cart, restricted shipping options are unavailable.
• You can exclude items from the order total for the purpose of calculating shipping costs. For example gift wrapping, from the order total for the purposes of calculating shipping costs.