Repeating Base Weights for Main Shipping Boxes

[kclover]

My company ships meat products, where the individual product boxes ship inside in a cold storage box that is six pounds. Our Zen Cart is set up to add six pounds to the base weight for any shipment. But once the orders get larger, we need to set it up so the weight of additional cold storage boxes is incorporated.

All of our smaller boxes that go into the cold storage box are the same size, I believe four fit into one cold storage box. So where in the set-up can I make it so the six pounds gets added for each additional cold storage box? Is there perhaps a range table I can create, where 1-4 units adds six pounds, 5-8 units adds twelve pounds, etc.?

[kobra]

What do you have set for

admin > config > Shipping/Packaging >Enter the Maximum Package Weight you will ship

[kclover]

Thanks for the quick response. It's set at the default 5,000. So if I set that max at the weight of four smaller boxes plus the shipping box, that should resolve it for the most part.

Only one wrinkle in there, all of our smaller boxes weigh three pounds, but there's one (filet mignon) that is two pounds. So if I make the max weight per box 18 pounds (4x3 + 6 for the cold storage shipping box), it would create an issue if someone tried to order five or six of the two-pound filet mignon boxes, which it would still see as under the "one package" weight limit. Any ideas on that, apart from selling filet mignon in three-pound boxes instead of two?

[kobra]

it would create an issue if someone tried to order five or six of the two-pound filet mignon boxes, which it would still see as under the "one package" weight limit.

Try to mediate this by charging something that makes most about right on the plus side and very few at maybe a slight cost - it should average out in the scheme of things

[kclover]

Thanks, I just ended up adding a half-pound to the two-pound product weight profile. So with our cap of 18 pounds per package, only four meat boxes can fit in a single package regardless of weight variances. I have it all just about set up the way we need it now, there's just one thing that's not quite working. When the order exceeds 18 pounds, it does split the order into multiple packages. But it's only adding the six pound base cold storage package weight for the first package, and not for the additionals (small/medium and large packages tares are set to 0:6).

For example, when I tried an order for five filet mignon boxes at 2.5 pounds each, it makes the order 18.5 pounds and split it into two packages, but it shows the total weight as 2 pkgs x 9.25 pounds total. So it's only incorporating one six pound base package weight there, when it really should end up being "2 pkgs x 12.25 total".

I'm not seeing anything in the shipping settings that can address this, do I perhaps need a different tare formula?

[kclover]

Been working on other parts of our site but now circling back to this topic. Any ideas on how to add that six-pound base cold storage package weight for each additional package? I can still only get it to add the six pounds to the first package.

[kobra]

Post your shipping/packaging settings

[kclover]

Country of Origin United States
Postal Code 97055
Enter the Maximum Package Weight you will ship 18
Package Tare Small to Medium - added percentage:weight 0:6
Larger packages - added packaging percentage:weight 0:6
Shipping Delay 1
Display Number of Boxes and Weight Status 3
Order Free Shipping 0 Weight Status 0
Shipping Estimator Display Settings for Shopping Cart 0
Display Order Comments on Admin Invoice 1
Display Order Comments on Admin Packing Slip 1

[kobra]

Post a link to your install

Place spaces in it to prevent it being indexed by google here

Such as

http :// www .zen-cart.com/

[Ajeh]

What shipping module(s) are you using?