# Locations & Shipping Overview in Medusa Admin

In the Locations & Shipping settings, you can manage stock locations and their shipping options, and other shipping-related configurations, such as shipping profiles.

## Overview

### Stock Locations

A stock location:

- Is associated with sales channels. Orders from these sales channels are fulfilled from this location.
- Has fulfillment providers that can be used in that location. For example, you can use UPS in the United States and DHL in Europe.
- Has shipping and pick up modes that you can add shipping options to. These are the shipping options used to fulfill items from this stock location.

### Shipping Profiles

A shipping profile groups similar products that require a different way of fulfillment. For example, fragile products are fulfilled differently than normal products. You can then provide shipping options specific for products that belong to the Fragile shipping profile.

### Shipping Option Types

A shipping option type groups shipping options with similar characteristics. For example, you can group all express shipping options together and apply a promotion to all of them at once.

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## View Location & Shipping Settings

To view location and shipping settings, go to Settings → Locations & Shipping.

![Location & shipping settings](https://res.cloudinary.com/dza7lstvk/image/upload/v1759995534/User%20Guide/CleanShot_2025-10-09_at_10.38.39_2x_eqsrxl.png)

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## Manage Location & Shipping Settings

- [Manage Locations](https://docs.medusajs.com/settings/locations-and-shipping/locations)
- [Manage Shipping Profiles](https://docs.medusajs.com/settings/locations-and-shipping/shipping-profiles)
- [Manage Shipping Option Types](https://docs.medusajs.com/settings/locations-and-shipping/shipping-option-types)


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