diff --git a/plugins/woocommerce/changelog/46719-fix-less-restricive-shipping-validation b/plugins/woocommerce/changelog/46719-fix-less-restricive-shipping-validation
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e96b5a8f643
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/woocommerce/changelog/46719-fix-less-restricive-shipping-validation
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Significance: patch
+Type: fix
+
+Be less aggressive when checking for selected shipping rates in Store API. Reminder that shipping rate id should be on the shape of `method_id:instance_id`.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/plugins/woocommerce/src/StoreApi/Utilities/ArrayUtils.php b/plugins/woocommerce/src/StoreApi/Utilities/ArrayUtils.php
index 7624cea3400..bea5b8a6aa2 100644
--- a/plugins/woocommerce/src/StoreApi/Utilities/ArrayUtils.php
+++ b/plugins/woocommerce/src/StoreApi/Utilities/ArrayUtils.php
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ class ArrayUtils {
 	public static function natural_language_join( $array, $enclose_items_with_quotes = false ) {
 		if ( true === $enclose_items_with_quotes ) {
 			$array = array_map(
-				function( $item ) {
+				function ( $item ) {
 					return '"' . $item . '"';
 				},
 				$array
@@ -33,4 +33,21 @@ class ArrayUtils {
 		}
 		return $last;
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Check if a string contains any of the items in an array.
+	 *
+	 * @param string $needle The string to check.
+	 * @param array  $haystack  The array of items to check for.
+	 *
+	 * @return bool true if the string contains any of the items in the array, false otherwise.
+	 */
+	public static function string_contains_array( $needle, $haystack ) {
+		foreach ( $haystack as $item ) {
+			if ( false !== strpos( $needle, $item ) ) {
+				return true;
+			}
+		}
+		return false;
+	}
 }
diff --git a/plugins/woocommerce/src/StoreApi/Utilities/OrderController.php b/plugins/woocommerce/src/StoreApi/Utilities/OrderController.php
index 32ac2d12453..a5f84b8bf5f 100644
--- a/plugins/woocommerce/src/StoreApi/Utilities/OrderController.php
+++ b/plugins/woocommerce/src/StoreApi/Utilities/OrderController.php
@@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ class OrderController {
 			if (
 				false === $chosen_shipping_method ||
 				! is_string( $chosen_shipping_method ) ||
-				! in_array( current( explode( ':', $chosen_shipping_method ) ), $valid_methods, true )
+				! ArrayUtils::string_contains_array( $chosen_shipping_method, $valid_methods )
 			) {
 				throw $exception;
 			}