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title: "Shipping cost and time on the page · Specoria"
description: "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”."
source_url: "https://specoria.com/method/checks/shipping-human/"
lang: "en"
---

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shipping_human

# 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.

- Passed Shipping terms are clear on the page: …….
- Partial Shipping is mentioned, but no free-shipping threshold or delivery time is stated.
- Failed No 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_human` Shopping flow (Specoria) section

[The framework and its source →](https://specoria.com/method/#criteria)

[← PreviousMachine-readable shipping information](https://specoria.com/method/checks/shipping-machine/)[Next →Business identity](https://specoria.com/method/checks/org-identity/)

[Run the free test](https://specoria.com/method/checks/shipping-human/#test) [See the sample report →](https://specoria.com/reports/sample-report/)

## Related

- [Machine-readable return policy](https://specoria.com/method/checks/returns-machine/)
- [Returns page and window](https://specoria.com/method/checks/returns-human/)
- [Agent Readiness Index 2027](https://specoria.com/index/) How the benchmarked stores scored, with open data
- [Agentic commerce statistics](https://specoria.com/agentic-commerce-statistics/) Sourced, dated figures you can cite

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