different shipping rules for certain products

[marglar]

I sell several products that can all ship via the same method and that part is working great.

I also have some products that require special handling and packaging and I want to account for this in my shipping charges. Is there a way to have these products add extra "handling" for the shipping and handling to account for insurance and expensive packaging, etc?

Thanks for any help.

[HinterWelt2]

Similar issue. I am using subscriptions and use Zone shipping for them. Single issue need a different amount of shipping. It would be nice to use zone shipping on subscriptions and say, UPS on the issues.

Any help?

Running 1.38a.

Thanks,
Bill

[Ajeh]

Have you an URL showing how you have these Products set up where it would show the differences between the two types?

[HinterWelt2]

Have you an URL showing how you have these Products set up where it would show the differences between the two types?

Linda,
If you are talking to me the store is:
http://www.koboldquarterly.com/KQStore/

There is a category Subscriptions and one Issues.

I may have come up with a solution, not pretty but one none the less using the suggestions on the forum about weight. I am using Zone shipping and use a lower weight and lower fixed price ofr issues and a higher one for Subscriptions.

To make it clearer:

1. They are in different categories so some custom coding could be used as you have suggested in the shipping module. I was hoping for something already in the shipping modules.

2. The reason we use Zone shipping is to differentiate between US-CA-and elsewhere. I would love to implement a true shipping charge module like USPS or UPS but since we have subscriptions we have a recurring charge. I could adjust the weight to reflect that shipped but a fixed charge (things like fuel surcharges) would not be applied thus making the result inaccurate.

3. On the grander level, the difference between issue (which could use a true shipping charge module) that ships one time, one item and Subscriptions which have up to four separate shipping occurrences make this a difficult issue.

Essentially, if we could say "Product A uses UPS and Product B uses Zone" it would be great. I take it there is not a way to do this without custom coding?

Thanks,
Bill

[yellow1912]

Is this gonna be per product or per category?
I have a customer who needs this mod as well, and I have already hired a coder to code this (since Im so busy with some other stuffs). So if you guys need it PM me perhaps we can share the cost and then later release it to other members as well.

Regards