Different Shipping rates?

[dancemonkiii]

I want to sell two different sets of items. In one set, A, I want to charge a 2 dollar shipping fee. In another set, B, I want to charge a 3 dollar shipping fee. Someone can buy as many items from set A and only receive a 2 dollar shipping fee and the same with B but with 3 dollars. However if they were to mix and match A + B then they would be charged 5 dollars, regardless of how much they bought.

If you can understand what I'm trying to say and have an easy answer then any help would be much appreciated.

Like this:

[Ajeh]

You could write a custom shipping module to count the number of items in the cart for Product A and Product B and charge the appropriate rate ...

Do you have just the two items or do you mean you want a "separate" price for each Product to charge 1 charge per Product regardless of quantity?

[dancemonkiii]

2 different categories but with a possibility to open up more categories.

2 items per category.

I can't ship buttons and prints together so thus I have to ship them in separate ways, but I can sell multiple buttons in just one box thus only using one for of shipping for each category.

Lets say one person buys 30 buttons. Therefore they would be charged 2 dollars in shipping.

Another one buys 30 prints. Therefore they would be charged 3 dollars.

A third person buys 10 buttons and 10 prints. Due to using different packaging they would be paying 5 dollars, 2 to ship the buttons and 3 to ship the prints.

[Ajeh]

You can count how many products are in the shopping cart based on their master_categories_id with, for example to know how many Products are from categories_id 12 and categories_id 15 where this is used as the master_categories_id value of 12 and 15:

global $cart;
$chk_cat12 = $_SESSION['cart']->in_cart_check('master_categories_id','12');
$chk_cat15 = $_SESSION['cart']->in_cart_check('master_categories_id','15');

You can call the variables anything you want, I just use $chk_cat12 and $chk_cat15 as they make sense ...

From these values, you can then build a shipping cost ...

[saltybill]

Hi,

I'm in a similar situation. I need one group of items sent via "box A" and another group sent via "box B". So that the total weight of box A (*whatever USPS is) = $X.xx and the total weight of box B (*whatever USPS is) = $Y.yy... so the total shipping if they buy items from the Box A AND Box B categories would be $X.xx+$Y.yy. Right, so ideally it would take the 2 weights and calculate USPS shipping of both packages independently, then add them up for a total. In other words... I'm looking for multiple products that are designated as "box A products" and other products that are "box B products" so products of the same box group have the benefit of the combined shipping.

So how exactly do you do this? I'm not overly tech savy so I'm not sure what you mean by "master category id". If you could give me a short rundown of that and where to find it, I'd be so appreciative!

I'm hoping this can be done! I really need to be able to send these items in 2 separate boxes.

Also... can you set up a max box volume or weight limit? Probably volume would be best... Say, Box A can only hold 20 Widgets or 10 Gidgets or 10widgets+5gidgets??? Does that make sense?


Thanks soooooooo much!

[rfquotations]

How can we get the list of the different shipping rates so i can have my own list on shipping prizes rates. Who do i need to talk or send email to get the list. Manufacturers