Multiple Shipping rates for different product types

[startatrix]

Hi,

I would like to be able to charge different shipping rates according to Product types.

I will be selling 3 products for now and would like to configure zencart so that Shipping co sts vary according to country and product type.

Example
Product A shipping cost to US costs $10
Product A shipping cost toAustralia costs $18

Product B shipping cost to US costs $13
Product B shipping cost toAustralia costs $20

From where do I start

Thanks for any future help

[Ajeh]

The Per Unit perweightunit Shipping Module utilizes the products_weight for the shipping price on a per product basis ...

If you were to make a proper ratio between US and Australia then you could clone this module and set one unit rate for the US and one unit rate for Australia and then add the Zones to manage which one shows for which customer ...

[startatrix]

I understand what you mean however I am new to zencart. What do you mean by clone? How do I clone the module?

Thanks

[Ajeh]

There are several thread on cloning shipping modules ... searching for:

clone shipping
cloning shipping

will find many of them ...

This one shows how to clone the item.php shipping module ...

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=40164

[startatrix]

Hi,

I clone the perweightunit module and I set different handling however this is only true if the shipping cost is different for just the zones.

I need to be able to distinguish between product types..

Let say :

If I ship a mobile to US cost would be $10, if I ship it to Australia it would be $20

BUT if I ship a different product type, let say a Book the shipping cost to
US would not neccessary be $10

I need this flexibility since the company I am buying from has different shipping cost depending on the COUNTRY and the PRODUCT TYPE

Thanks

[Ajeh]

While this isn't difficult it does take a bit of thought to understand how to use this ... so let's follow the bouncing ball ...

Let's assume we want 3 zones and we clone perweightunit for Canada, Austraila and United States:
perweightunitca
perweightunitau
perweightunitus

This would mean that on a global replace of all:
perweightunit

changes to:
perweightunitca
perweightunitau
perweightunitus

And on a global replace all PERWEIGHTUNIT chages to:
PERWEIGHTUNITCA
PERWEIGHTUNITAU
PERWEIGHTUNITUS

Assuming the cloning is done right ... and the 3 zones are configured right for the 3 countries ...

We are going to set the unit price on each module as:
perweightunitca 1.50
perweightunitau 1.00
perweightunitus 1.25

What this will do is:

On a Product with a products_weight of 10 is give the following shipping calculation for when we order quantity 3:

perweightunitca 3 * 10 * 1.50 = $45 shipping
perweightunitau 3 * 10 * 1.00 = $30 shipping
perweightunitus 3 * 10 * 1.25 = $37.50 shipping


On a Product with a products_weight of 2 is give the following shipping calculation for when we order quantity 4:

perweightunitca 2 * 4 * 1.50 = $12 shipping
perweightunitau 2 * 4 * 1.00 = $8.00 shipping
perweightunitus 2 * 4 * 1.25 = $10.00 shipping

[duntuk]

Wow... thanks for the excellent explanation...

[Ajeh]

You are most welcome ... hope that helps you out ...

[thomasharding]

The thing that annoys me most about Zen Cart is that it takes the really long way round to get to a simple solution.

It makes me wonder why they don't include like a Quantity shipping section in the admin area, similar to attributes and you can set up shipping that way.

Ah well, for now I'll have to keep attributing up the tare-module and cloning options to be able to add a paragraph into the homepage.

[amandavz]

Does anyone know how to incorporate the following:
Based on FLAT RATE SHIPPING

Example:
A bumper cover would cost: 54.00 to ship
A fender would cost: 70.00 to ship
A headlight (or boxed item) would cost: 15.00 to ship &
A hood would cost: 120.00 to ship

I would like to incorporate flat rate shipping, because I use multiple carriers. Can anyone tell me how to do this?


Thanks,