Shipping - Different Flat Rate Freight Cost For Each Item

[Donn]

I am looking for a way to add shipping charges to a purchase, as follows:

A flat rate to ship each item to the whole of one area ONLY...

...With a different flat rate for each item, determined by weight.

(Cannot have one flat rate shipping fee, as large items with significantly different weights makes this impossible.)



ZC 3.8A

[Ajeh]

If I buy 1 Product ... then later I buy 2 of the same Product ... is the shipping doubled?

If so, you might look into the Per Unit perweightunit shipping module that allows you to set the Shipping Cost as the products_weight on a per Product basis ...

So if you set the Product Weight to 1.25 then:
1 x 1.25 = $1.25
2 x 1.25 = $2.50
3 x 1.25 = $3.75

and this will follow for all Products in the order ...

[Donn]

If I buy 1 Product ... then later I buy 2 of the same Product ... is the shipping doubled?

If so, you might look into the Per Unit perweightunit shipping module that allows you to set the Shipping Cost as the products_weight on a per Product basis ...

So if you set the Product Weight to 1.25 then:
1 x 1.25 = $1.25
2 x 1.25 = $2.50
3 x 1.25 = $3.75

and this will follow for all Products in the order ...

Thank you for the reply. I checked, and the freight shipper charges based on size, as well as weight.

So, I suppose what I need is a way to set each item's shipping charges individually.

In the example that you provided above, did you mean that every item's shipping fees can be set to a different price with that module, in this manner: An item with a shipping fee of $3.75, again referring to the above example, would be entered, using that module, as "3", if I set the product weight default to $1.25?

I am not sure if what you describe is what I'm looking for. I hope that the additional information clarifies what I meant if my original post was not clear.

Donn

[Ajeh]

Let's say you want the following:

Product A ships for $3.75 ... set the Product Weight to 3.75 ...

Product B ships for $2.25 ... set the Product Weight to 2.25 ...

Product C ships for $1.00 ... set the Product Weight to 1.00 ...

Order 1 of Product A, 1 of Product B and 10 of Product C:

Shipping is:
Product A 1 x 3.75 = $3.75
Product B 1 x 2.25 = $2.25
Product C 10 x 1.00 = $10.00

Total Shipping is $16.00 if the Unit Rate is set to 1.00 on the Per Unit perweightunit shipping module ...

[Donn]

Let's say you want the following:

Product A ships for $3.75 ... set the Product Weight to 3.75 ...

Product B ships for $2.25 ... set the Product Weight to 2.25 ...

Product C ships for $1.00 ... set the Product Weight to 1.00 ...

Order 1 of Product A, 1 of Product B and 10 of Product C:

Shipping is:
Product A 1 x 3.75 = $3.75
Product B 1 x 2.25 = $2.25
Product C 10 x 1.00 = $10.00

Total Shipping is $16.00 if the Unit Rate is set to 1.00 on the Per Unit perweightunit shipping module ...

Thank you for helping.

I was looking in add-on mods, and didn't realize that the add-on is included standard with zencart. lol

I tried setting up the module you wrote about, but I am running into one issue: I need the same shipping rate for ALL of the continental US, and if possible, another flat rate for all of Canada.

(I would be OK with just ONE such shipping option. If I can only get the US, then I can live with that)

It seems that I was using incorrect terminology in my post above...'zone' seems to refer to state or province ONLY....but I need the 'zone' to be a whole bunch of smaller zones.

I tried entering multiple zone codes at the entry blank for the multi-state zone that I'm trying to create with the perunit shipping module, but it truncates my list and saves only a few states, and further, I don't even know if it will work with more than one zone defined for an entry...

[Ajeh]

You create the Zones in the Locations / Taxes ... Zone Definitions ...

Here you can build what you want each of the Zones to be ...

If you had 3 clones of Per Unit perweightunit shipping module then you could make 3 Zones, one for each clone where each one had its own rate ...

[Donn]

You create the Zones in the Locations / Taxes ... Zone Definitions ...

Here you can build what you want each of the Zones to be ...

If you had 3 clones of Per Unit perweightunit shipping module then you could make 3 Zones, one for each clone where each one had its own rate ...

Thanks, Ajeh....

I set up the additional zones...

So far, so good....

But how do I 'clone' the Per Unit perweightunit shipping module?

( I tried simply copying the perweightunit.php file up to the include/modules/shipping/ directory with slightly modified names, but it didn't work.)

Donn

[Ajeh]

Do a search on:
clone flat

and this will show you the methods used to clone a shipping module ...

See if that doesn't get you on the right track ...