Shipping cost and time on the page
Why it matters If a shipping fee appears as a surprise at checkout the agent cancels its confirmation; if timing is vague it can’t meet “arrives tomorrow”.
- Category
- Policies and trust
- Weight
- 3 of 100 points
- Critical blocker
- No. If it fails, it only costs its own weight.
- Applies to
- Online stores
- Effort
- 1 hour · content
- Score model
- v2.4
How we measure it
We look for a free-shipping threshold or a delivery time in the product page, the shipping page and the homepage text. Either found passes; a vague mention of shipping is a partial pass; nothing fails.
What the result page says
These are the sentences in the test result; “…” is replaced by what we found on your site.
- PassedShipping terms are clear on the page: …….
- PartialShipping is mentioned, but no free-shipping threshold or delivery time is stated.
- FailedNo shipping cost or delivery time was found on the page.
How to fix it
Target: The product page shows shipping cost, the free-shipping threshold and delivery time before the cart.
How to verify it yourself
The product page should show the shipping cost (or free-shipping threshold) and delivery time before the cart.
Fix it with an AI coding agent
Paste this into Claude Code, Cursor or another coding agent working on your store’s code. Review the change before you deploy it.
You are working on my online store. Specoria’s agent readiness test checks the item below. Fix it so AI shopping agents can read the store and act on it.
## 1. Shipping cost and time on the page (shipping_human)
Target: The product page shows shipping cost, the free-shipping threshold and delivery time before the cart.
Reference: https://specoria.com/method/checks/shipping-human/
## Rules
- First look through the codebase and tell me which files or templates you will change, before editing anything.
- Change only what these checks need, and keep the visible page and the structured data saying the same thing.
- Never invent prices, stock, shipping or return terms, reviews or product identifiers (GTIN): take them from the store’s real data or ask me.
- Don’t block or slow down real visitors and don’t add tracking.
- After deploying, run the free test again at https://specoria.com/ to verify the fix.
Where it sits in the 196-criteria framework
The result of this check counts as evidence for these items of the readiness framework:
0.shipping_humanShopping flow (Specoria) section