1 purchased item = 6 items for shipping purposes

[Philman1008]

Hello,

I am trying to use tables for postage based by per item. However, I have some items that have say 6 actual boxes (items) within the quantity of 1 as purchased. Is there any way I can tell the cart that that particular item has 6 boxes, but that information be in the background so the customer cannot see this?

I was looking at the product quantity units, but this simply makes the customer buy 6 items. Can I use this, but supress it from the customer screen.

Thanks, Phil.

[kobra]

Without knowing what you sell - - try adding a weight of 1lb to most items but a weight of 6lbs for the ones that have 6 items in them

Then use table rate based on weight

[Philman1008]

Hello,

Sorry, yes knowing what we do would help. We sell windows and doors and other joinery items. site is www.roncurry.co.uk I cannot solve this with a weight based system as unglazed items will be transported by weight on a parcel courier, but when we get to glazed items, they need to go on a different courier who is item based. I did consider just using a high weight for the glazed items, but then when you combine the items through the checkout it would not work out a combined rate successfully.

Eg a glazed window, say set at 200lbs would be say £65 to send, then 2 of these windows totalling 400lbs, would be £75 to send. However, when you combined an unglazed window at say 25lbs with the glazed window at 200lbs, this would also be £75 to send. Then if you combine 2 unglazed windows with a glazed this would be £85, but the total weight would only be 250lbs.

Can you think of any other ways?