Flat rate shipping per item with shipping & handling

[FlameAngel]

I have 2 types of products. I need to set up two kinds of flat rate shipping:

$18 shipping + $7 handling - so that if you order one it's $18 and an extra $7 for each extra

$12 shipping + $1.95 handling - so $12 for one & $1.95 for each extra

Can this be done?

[Ajeh]

You would need to customize the code a lot further ...

When I made the Per Unit perweightunit module, it was intended to take the products_weight as the unit factor to charge against the rate charge in perweightunit ...

This would allow you to have clones of this method where 1 Zone used 1 and another Zone used 1.25 and another Zone used 1.5 ...

What you are wanting to do needs a 2nd field to manage the handling per product ...

You could add a new field to the products table or make a new table for shipping that includes the charge then the handling in it ...

But unless you got tricky and said the Handling charge was XX% of the products_weight ... there isn't a simple way to do this ...

[FlameAngel]

Thanks for replying. This is my first shopping cart implementation so I'm not keen on modifying the code. The customer is willing to consider other options at this point.

It's a photo place, she's shipping prints, some framed, some matted:

Framed
price - $75
shipping - $25

Matted
price - $25
shipping - $15

This much is fine but she wants to allow people to, for example buy 3 matted and just pay the $15 once and an extra charge for each extra matted print. She probably won't care if the extra charge is the same for both matted & framed at this point.

Can you suggest something that will work with the Zen software as it is?

[Ajeh]

Your shipping gets complicated because you need some things at a per item and some things as a flat charge ...

Utilizing the Per Unit perweightunit is handy except it doesn't allow for single charges on some products ...

Unless you were to build in quite a few features this is not configurable in any existing manner ...

The only way I can think to do this is to build in either extra fields to manage the charges or build a table with these charges ...

Otherwise, keeping to the standard of using the products_weight as the charge and having it tally the weight as the charges is needed ...

NOTE: you can put weight in the product and weight in the attributes so that you can set a different weight for Framed vs Matted with a minimum governed by the Product Weight and extra weight managed with the attributes ...