Shipping rates on a per item basis

[Stuff4Toys]

We have items in our store that are 3oz and items that are 20,800 lbs

I need to be able to set the shipping type on a per item basis.

SKU123 weight 3oz
[x] FedEx
[x] UPS
[x] Store Pickup
[ ] Estimate Truck Freight (we call the customer with the freight cost)

SKU321 weight 20,800 lbs
[ ] FedEx
[ ] UPS
[x] Store Pickup
[x] Estimate Truck Freight (we call the customer with the freight cost)

So on and so forth.

THANKS
JOhn ><>

[Ajeh]

You could control the $this->enabled in each module based on the weight to turn them on and off ...

[chadderuski]

Wouldn't it be easier to setup up these items as a product type that required truck shipping and use a different handler page?

[Ajeh]

Not really ...

You would have to create a whole file set for the product type where on weight you can just test if the weight is >= 20800 to manage the shipping modules ...

[chadderuski]

Basing strictly on weight still doesn't quite work but I see your point.

We sell youth chairs in KD and assembled 2 packs.

Shipping for a single pack KD is not bad, and goes UPS very often, however, the 2 pack assembled cost more to ship than the value of the chairs! This is because it is like over-sized 2 and underweight...

On the other hand, we cannot ship hazardous items via UPS no matter what the weight (company is too lazy to do MSDN sheets for all these)

AND

We do not ship glass via UPS either. (Well, special requests require a repacking charge and disclaimer against breakage. But this is the exception not the rule) A box of tumblers is not heavy enough to base this on weight either, or even 10 boxes. But these would ship via truck reguardless.

Linda, perhaps a little direction on what is involved in making a mod for this would help me greatly. I am capable coder, but time is currently a huge constraint for me.... but a better understanding of what it would take to be able to select "Truck/Freight - call for quote" or force it if an item is freight only is what I think we need.

Looking forward to your imput!

[Ajeh]

Where you have such a distinction of using the heavy weight where it cannot possibly equal a regular order, just that in itself is a flag ...

For your scenario if you cannot use either the master_categories_id or the products_weight or some other identifier then you may need to either add a new flag to the products table for these or you can take the time to build a new product type ...

If you cannot use an existing field in the products table as the identifier, then you could use a new field as the flag with without a new product type in the products table but you would be editing the core files and need to update them with each upgrade ...

Then, you can test for how many products in the shopping cart has this field and if greater than 1 decide what to do as far as the whole order is concerned on the shipping ...