Itemized Shipping using UPS module

[romontj]

Is it possible to display separate UPS rates for each product in a shopping cart. For instance, the "checkout_shipping" page may display the following for 2 products with a combined weight of 100lbs.:

United Parcel Service----------(2x50lbs.)--------
3-day Select              $90.00
Ground                     $45.00

I would like for this page to display something along the lines of:

Item #1
Weight: 20lbs.
United Parcel Service------------
3-day Select               $20.00
Ground                      $8.00

Item #2
Weight: 80lbs.
United Parcel Service------------
3-day Select              $60.00
Ground                     $35.00

Is there a way to make this happen? I'm pretty well versed in PHP programming so ANY suggestions would be helpful.

[romontj]

Is there a way to show itemized shipping on the checkout shipping page? I would like for each product in the shopping cart to have UPS charges based on their individual weight and not on the total weight of the order.

[Ajeh]

Do you know how much more that will be per order?

Perhaps it will pay for the customization to make that happen ...

[DrByte]

The entire shipping class infrastructure is based on one aggregated quote, rather than individual item quotes.

If you wish to adapt it, you'll need to rework the shipping class and the shipping-module class (ie: UPS as you suggested) to request and display quotes on a per-line-item basis, pass them back to the cart, and formulate the display as desired.
Then you need to make sure it quotes, retains, and re-displays the same quotation information on the shopping-cart, shipping-estimator, payment, and confirmation pages, which will require rewriting templates for those too.

[romontj]

Do you know how much more that will be per order?

Perhaps it will pay for the customization to make that happen ...

Items in the store range from 3lbs. to 200lbs. A UPS quote of let's say a 200 lb. order broken into 4 50lb. packages won't come close to the actual cost of shipping a 175 lb item and a 25lb item separately.

In addition, I would like for my customers to have a choice of, per se, UPS Ground for their larger packages and UPS Next Day for their smaller packages.

I've seen something like this at Clubflyers.com.

But to answer your question, the difference per order would be significant.

[Ajeh]

I can see where that can be a problem ...

It makes it hard to break the boxes with those large constraints ...

Again ... it can be done but you don't want to go overboard on the pricing either ...

Saying the largest you ship is 5lbs would make the 200lb item thought to be 40 boxes and if you have the tare setup then that goes rather high ...

You may, however, be able to utilize that tare charge using percentage vs weight ... as an alternative to re-writting the shipping module ...

But you would have to experiment with that and see does it offset things better or not on shipping ...

Or, there could be added an additional field to the products table for these heavier items to apply an extra charge that can be added to the shipping so that normal shipping rates are used + handling + tare + extra to come up with a better pricing method ...

[romontj]

The entire shipping class infrastructure is based on one aggregated quote, rather than individual item quotes.

If you wish to adapt it, you'll need to rework the shipping class and the shipping-module class (ie: UPS as you suggested) to request and display quotes on a per-line-item basis, pass them back to the cart, and formulate the display as desired.
Then you need to make sure it quotes, retains, and re-displays the same quotation information on the shopping-cart, shipping-estimator, payment, and confirmation pages, which will require rewriting templates for those too.

I've been attempting to compile all of the checkout pages and figure out how the shipping weights are being added > then passed to the UPS module > shipping options are displayed > option price is sent to payment checkout. It's extremely difficult, I know, but given a starting point I can figure something out.