Shipping PER ITEM

[duckydoodles.com]

Hello. I wanted to know if it is possible to set individual shipping costs for individual items; not based on weight. Basically can I set a specific shipping value for each item?

Thanks

- Steve

[Kim]

No- not the way you are envisioning it- but - Use the per Unit module and give your items a weight value that is equal to the cost of shipping for that item. I would suggest you turn off all of the weight displays.

[duckydoodles.com]

So basically your saying to convert my shipping into so much a pound? And to turn off the weight displays so that the customer doesn't realize that the shipping is being calculated as a factor of weight? All they see is a $$$ value for shipping?

- Steve

[Kim]

EXACTLY!

[duckydoodles.com]

Ok Thanks :)

[giftbasketree]

I need to do this too. I've been playing with this all day and all I have accomplished is proving myself to be pretty dense.

I want to set per item prices as well, I think it's a great idea to set the weight and this indicate a price for this weight.

So, like 1 pound=$8.00 and 2 pounds=$9.99 and so forth.

I have installed the per unit shipping, I'm just not really clear on how to configure it.

Any suggestions for me?

Thanks in advance!

[Ajeh]

The Per Unit Shipping Module works like this ...

If the setting for: Shipping Cost per Unit

is set to 1 then what ever you put in the Product Weight field is going to be:

1 * products_weight

So if you put in Shipping Cost per Unit as .75 and products_weight is 10 then the Shipping Cost is: $7.50 ...

But if you use Shipping Cost per Unit as 1 and products_weight is 10 then the Shipping Cost is: $10.00 ...

This is not set up so that when buying 2 of Product 34 then the 1st is $7.99 and the 2nd one is $6.99 ...

This is not setup that 1lbs = $8.00 and 2lbs = $9.99

You may wish to see if you can do something with tables if that is what you are trying to accomplish ...

[giftbasketree]

Thanks for the quick reply. I was plugging away and managed to accomplish just that and then it added the 3lbs and/or $3 in my case for shipping and I found in the tare how to correct that. Now for whatever reason I go through my order and I can see the correct shipping price in the checkout process but it isn't adding it to my total. I'm sure it's a setting I have probably turned off at some point.

This is really the answer I was looking for in the shipping module. Thanks so much!

[giftbasketree]

Good grief, I'm a moron.

Here's what happened. I have been having problems with my PayPal bringing over the orders and no matter what I did I couldn't fix it. I decided to do a clean install with the newest version and opened my old version to do my settings. Since I previously used the attributes to do all of my shipping charges I automatically turned off the line where it says to add the shipping to your total.

So, I turned that back on and everything worked well.

Thanks again for your assistance.