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    Default Flat rate shipping per item with shipping & handling

    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?
    Last edited by FlameAngel; 7 Jan 2008 at 10:09 PM.

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    Default Re: Flat rate shipping per item with shipping & handling

    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 ...
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    Default Re: Flat rate shipping per item with shipping & handling

    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?

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    Default Re: Flat rate shipping per item with shipping & handling

    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 ...
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