Extra shipping for heavy items

[imagino]

How can I add some shipping for very heavy items?

In most cases items do not use weight (and they do not have it set really), but in a few cases the items are too heavy (and I can set them weight) and shipping must grow by a predefined amount of money, suppose everytime the same amount.

I need to ADD those money to shipping customer chosen, not use another shipping module like PerWeightUnit.

Thank you.

[Ajeh]

What shipping module(s) are you using now?

[imagino]

What shipping module(s) are you using now?

Storepickup (not suitable for my question), and two similar remakes of Table shipping module - here I need to make some changes, as I suppose.

[Ajeh]

What is your Table Rate table shipping module based on ... Item Count? Total? Weight?

Is there something to identify these "Heavy Products" ... master_categories_id ... products_id ... products_model ...

If not using products_weight any of the Products, can you use the products_weight for the additional amount to charge?

[imagino]

What is your Table Rate table shipping module based on ... Item Count? Total? Weight?

Based on Total and this cannot be changed.

Is there something to identify these "Heavy Products" ... master_categories_id ... products_id ... products_model ...

What about product weight? Say, everytime the product has weight other than zero, it is heavy.

If not using products_weight any of the Products, can you use the products_weight for the additional amount to charge?

Sure.

And I use ZC v1.3.8a

[Ajeh]

If that is the case, then you can customize the Table Rate shipping module to alter the code for the cost in:

    $this->quotes = array('id' => $this->code,
    'module' => MODULE_SHIPPING_TABLE_TEXT_TITLE . $show_box_weight,
    'methods' => array(array('id' => $this->code,
    'title' => MODULE_SHIPPING_TABLE_TEXT_WAY,
    'cost' => $shipping + (MODULE_SHIPPING_TABLE_HANDLING_METHOD == 'Box' ? MODULE_SHIPPING_TABLE_HANDLING * $shipping_num_boxes : MODULE_SHIPPING_TABLE_HANDLING) ) ));

by adding the $shipping_weight to that if the products_weight is the additional cost of the Product shipping ...

If you need to reduce the Total from these Products, you can expand on how this is managed ...