Shipping problem

[cris29]

Hello,
I have a problem
When Someone chooses 1 product with a price the program works fine. But when he adds a second or third book I cannot understand how the extra shipping will be added, too.
For example.
1 book has a cost of shipping 15 euros.
The second book has shipping costs 30 euros.
The problem is: How a member who chooses 2 diferent books with 2 different shipping costs will be added in the total price of the basket.

I would like also to inform you that there are 6 different locations of shipping.
The extra cost is being added on special volumes of books for special shipping locations.
book1 for example at america costs 24.40 euros but the shipping to America for book2 or book3 is different.

How could I make things up with this?

Thanx in advance

[Ajeh]

How are you doing the Shipping Costs?

Are you using a particular Shipping Module?

We need a bit more information about this to even begin to see where the problem might be as we don't know your site like you do ...

[cris29]

I am using the zone rate.
But I found some misunderstanding as about the "Shipping", the "weight" and the"unit" method.
I can add the weight method but the problem is that if someone choose 2 or more the weights of those are not known.
So, I tried to use some other shipping modules on the site but it was a bit difficult to join them in the shop because of the particular kind of shipping costs.

Let me tell you some thing.
I have I have 6 different locations: Armerica,Europe,Cyprus,South Africa and Latin America.
In the contrary I have 5-6 different books with different prices in the shipping cost for the above locations.
3 or 4 of them the costs are the same, but for the other, which are heavier, the costs are different.
So, for book#1 the costs are 20,20,20,20,15,15
but for book#2 the costs are 35,35,35,25,20

That makes the things a little complicated.

The total costs are made a little more complicated if the member buys 2 or more books.
It confuses me those 3 days I working with it.

[Ajeh]

The Zone Rates zones is using either:
Total Price
Total Item Count
Total Weight

to make the calculations ...

You are trying to compute prices on a Per Product basis ...

Currently, the Per Unit perweightunit uses the products_weight field as the shipping cost ...

For Zones, you can clone the Per Unit perweightunit and set each one with its own zones and define what the Unit charge is that is multiplied against the products_weight field ...

Set a products_weight to 1 ...

Now set one of the modules to a Unit Rate of 1 and another at 2 or what have you ...

Then the module set to 1 would charge $1.00 for shipping and the module set to 2 would charge $2.00 for the shipping for the same product ...

If you can more or less work out the Unit Rate for your Zones, then this would work for you on calculating shipping on a Per Product basis ...

[cris29]

That's a good idea, but The problem as I remember is that the price is different per unit.
For example for Cyprus the main price is 14.50 but when the weight is heigher it doesn't gets double but it costs 21.30, not 29 (14.50+14.50).

Every book has its own extra charge depending on the location.
The book, for example, costs 80 euros but it will be charged 24.40 for shipping to America but if the member is in Cyprus he will pay 14.50 only.
The members for time being do not buy more than 1 qty per unit.

[Ajeh]

If you could find a proportional amount to use for the products_weight * the unit rate you could use this module ...

Otherwise, you may be getting into something more customized ...