Charge shipping once regardless of Qty ordered based on perweightunit

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Hello

I have bulky furniture items that are cheaper to deliver using our own vechile than sending them with any other method. As a result, we are not concerned with the quantity ordered. We charge a fee for the 1st item only. Since it's a dedicated delivery there is no need to charge for additional items, as the vechile can accomodate more than the average order qty.

This is achieved by setting the products weight to 0, and applying a handling fee using perweightunit.

We also would like to sell smaller items now, using courier, but our handling fee for these would be to high.

I can lower the handling fee, but this makes the bulky items delivey cost to low. Setting a weight for the bulky items is also problematic as mutiple qty orders would charge more than what is required.

So basically i need to charge a one-time delivery charge for a particular category regrdless of the qty ordered from there.

Maybe i'm missing something obvious - but this has really stumped me. Is there any way i can get around this? Any ideas would be great?

Thanks

[Ajeh]

What happens on the mixed order where you have 1 or more large items with products_weight 0 and 1 or more small items with products_weight > 0 ...

Does that order all go on the truck?

If you could test if any of the products_weights were 0 to indicate 1 or more products go on the truck and this makes the whole order go on the truck, would this distinquish the order for you?

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Hi Ajeh

Thanks for the reply.

If you could test if any of the products_weights were 0 to indicate 1 or more products go on the truck and this makes the whole order go on the truck, would this distinquish the order for you?

I see where you going with this...

I was actually wanting that earlier, but when i more recently considered the zones i want to add i also need to distinguish them. Its all quite a bit, and i even battle just to describe it.


I've managed to find an admin controlled module (not free) over the weekend that can do this.
Still investigating it but i'm hoping this will allow me to save some time and also allow for some future flexibility.

Failing that, i'll post here again...

Many thanks
Warren