`verification/band-truth-2026-09-09.json`

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{
  "verified_at": "2026-09-09",
  "method": "read-only Admin GraphQL (deliveryProfile + productVariant.deliveryProfile) + draftOrderAvailableDeliveryOptions",
  "headline": "The $0 free-sample band IS LIVE. It lives on a DEDICATED profile, NOT the General profile. Prior RUNBOOK claim 'band already gone / remove-band is a no-op' was WRONG (it only looked at the General profile).",
  "profiles": {
    "General profile": {
      "id": "gid://shopify/DeliveryProfile/29033627699",
      "default": true,
      "domestic_zone": "54097215539",
      "domestic_methods": ["ups_shipping (carrier)", "fedex (carrier)"],
      "free_band_present": false,
      "note": "Rolls/bolts live here -> carrier-only. A $0-45 band (method 668938600499) was previously removed FROM THIS profile; that removal is what the old snapshot captured and is what misled the RUNBOOK."
    },
    "Samples — Free Shipping (No Tracking)": {
      "id": "gid://shopify/DeliveryProfile/96764067891",
      "default": false,
      "variants_assigned": 500,
      "location_group": "97775026227",
      "domestic_zone": "367888826419",
      "THE_LIVE_BAND": {
        "method_id": "gid://shopify/DeliveryMethodDefinition/730269646899",
        "name": "Free Shipping (No Tracking)",
        "price": "0.00",
        "condition": "TOTAL_PRICE >= $0.00 AND TOTAL_PRICE <= $45.00",
        "enforcement_axis": "cart SUBTOTAL (price), NOT sample count and NOT product type"
      },
      "other_domestic_methods": [
        {"id":"730269679667","name":"Priority Sample Only","price":"24.95","condition":"TOTAL_PRICE $0-$20"},
        {"id":"730269712435","name":"ups_shipping","type":"carrier"},
        {"id":"730269745203","name":"fedex","type":"carrier"}
      ]
    }
  },
  "live_cart_behavior_today": {
    "3-10 samples ($12.75-$42.50)": "FREE (Free Shipping No Tracking = $0)",
    "11 samples ($46.75)": "CHARGED (>$45 band cap; only UPS Ground $20.53 + FedEx offered)",
    "15 samples ($63.75)": "CHARGED ~$21.25",
    "20 samples ($85.00)": "CHARGED ~$23.53",
    "5 samples + 1 roll ($189.65)": "CHARGED ~$38.35 (roll on General/carrier profile pulls total >$45; whole cart loses free)"
  },
  "critical_limitation": "A TOTAL_PRICE band cannot distinguish 6 WC + 0 fabric ($25.50) from 3 WC + 3 fabric ($25.50) — same price, one violates the 5-WC policy, one does not. Therefore the retail per-type '5 and 5' rule is NOT enforceable at the shipping-rate layer on Advanced Shopify (no Functions). Below the price cap, the band gives everyone free regardless of type mix; per-type enforcement can ONLY be a theme-level cart guard (message and/or block-add), never a shipping charge.",
  "codes": {
    "TRADESHIP": {"id":"gid://shopify/DiscountCodeNode/1466042351667","scope":"both trade segments","maxShip":"30","free_shipping":true},
    "SAMPLESHIP": {"id":"gid://shopify/DiscountCodeNode/1466042384435","scope":"all customers","maxShip":"30","free_shipping":true}
  }
}