Ok, the cart is just about done.

I am confused with setting up my shipping. I need to use either "Per Unit" or "Table Rate". So far the "Per Unit" is closer to my needs and here is why.

I am located in Massachusetts and ship anything from a couple pounds up to 50 pound packages.

My dilema is that to send 50 pounds to Massachusetts is let's say $10.00 but to ship the same to California is $30.00.

If I charge $30.00 to California chances are that I will lose that sale. What I would like to do is to charge everyone in all States the same price for shipping example $18.00. It averages out and that is how I do it with my current perl/cgi based cart.

I have a flat rate charge of $8.95 for weights under 8 pounds or so and then it gradually goes up from there based on $0.28 per pound.

I am having difficulty figuraing out where to make these changes and how to enter the correct values.

I have played around with:

admin>config>Shipping/Packaging>package tare as well as

admin>modules>shipping>perunit but cannot seem to get it right.

Please help as this is the last trouble spot prior to taking the site live.