Mulitple Shipping Rates

[perkiekat]

OK. Here's what I am trying to do:

Items are saddle pads. Cost for 1 pad is $15.00. $7.00 more per item added to cart.

There are different handling fees for extra pads based on what size of box items are shipped in that varies from $5 to $9.

How would I set this up and which module would I use? The per item looks like it only allows one handling fee. I need more based on how many pads are purhcased.

Also, is there a way to add additional shipping charges for

$5.00 for Hawaii/Alaska U.S.P.S.- First Class Mail per shipment
$30.00 to ship outside USA - First Class Mail per shipment

We are not shipping per weight, but per item. How would I set this up? Any threads someone could lead me to so I can read? I've searched, but not coming up with exact answer.I'll keep searching and try to find a answer, but please, if anyone could lead me in the right direction, I would deeply appreciate it.

Thanks

[Ajeh]

You would need to write a customized shipping module ...

It you ignore, for the moment, the handling fees ... are you able to setup the Item Rate item shipping module correctly for the charges?

If there is a handling fee on a pad, and it is $7.00, is that $7.00 for each pad? As in I order qty 1 for $7.00 and qty 2 for $14.00 ... and then another pad has a $3.00 handling, is that qty 1 for $3.00 and qty 2 for $6.00 ...

[perkiekat]

You would need to write a customized shipping module ...

It you ignore, for the moment, the handling fees ... are you able to setup the Item Rate item shipping module correctly for the charges?

If there is a handling fee on a pad, and it is $7.00, is that $7.00 for each pad? As in I order qty 1 for $7.00 and qty 2 for $14.00 ... and then another pad has a $3.00 handling, is that qty 1 for $3.00 and qty 2 for $6.00 ...

Thank you Ajeh for responding. I played around with the table rate and added the handling fees to the shipping rate. However, I have to manually add the shipping fees I want the cart to show if a customer places 100 inside the cart. This would take me forever to set it up for, lets say, 1000 items in the cart...not realistic, but it would be checked by the client to see if they could add this many. Is there a better way to do this??

Maybe this would be better to add as the price of item? There are many different prices and when I set up the attrubutes, I did not add the weight. I really don't know what would be the best way to go here. The site isn't complete yet (I still have to set up the shipping correctly, but you will get an ideal of what I am talking about with the many different prices. This site has taken me a good while ( 3 weeks) to get it running correctly...a lot of work! Here is the link to see it.

[perkiekat]

Yes. I can set up the item rate without the handling fees. I do not have it installed now because of conflicting with the table rates. Doesn't this only set it up for one item?

[Ajeh]

What I am trying to do is see if the Item Rate shipping module can handle the shipping per item "without the handling fee", and if the handling fee is based on per qty of an item, and you were to put that handling fee in the products_weight field and that the handling fee is based on quantity then would that work?

Example: Item Rate set to 8.00

Qty 1 8.00
Qty 2 16.00
Qty 3 24.00
etc. etc.

If Pad 1 had a handling fee of 3.00, and this was in the products_weight field, would the shipping be:

Qty 1 8.00 + 3.00 = $11.00
Qty 2 8.00 x 2 + 3.00 x 2 = $22.00
Qty 3 8.00 x 3 + 3.00 x 3 = 33.00

If Pad 2 had a handling fee of 7.00, and this was in the products_weight field, would the shipping be:

Qty 1 8.00 + 7.00 = $15.00
Qty 2 8.00 x 2 + 7.00 x 2 = $30.00
Qty 3 8.00 x 3 + 7.00 x 3 = $45.00

And qty 1 of Pad 1 and qty 2 of Pad 2 would be:

Qty 1 8.00 + 3.00 = $11.00
Qty 2 8.00 x 2 + 7.00 x 2 = $30.00

for a total shipping of $41.00 ...

[perkiekat]

Thanks. Give me a few minutes to sort out what you just typed...

[perkiekat]

Let me see if I have understood what you are saying:

Add the base price per item = $15.00

Then add the handling fee as weight in the product description...in this case...its 7.00

If this is what you were referring to, then adding the handling fee as weight within the product description does not change the base price. It stays the same = $15.00

[perkiekat]

Looks like i may need to purchase the Ceon Dev Advshipper for this type of shipping...do you know much about the mod?

[Ajeh]

It you set the shipping cost on the Item Rate ... then add the handling on the products_weight ... then customize the shipping module to add the total shipping weight as the handling fee, then this would possibly be what you are trying to accomplish ...

You say:

Items are saddle pads. Cost for 1 pad is $15.00. $7.00 more per item added to cart.

There are different handling fees for extra pads based on what size of box items are shipped in that varies from $5 to $9.

So if the Item Rate is: 7.00 and the products_weight is 8.00 you get:
Qty 1 7.00 + 8.00
Qty 2 7.00 x 2 + 8.00 x 2
Qty 3 7.00 x 3 + 8.00 x 3

Or, are you saying there is 1 handling fee despite the quantity?

[perkiekat]

There is a base rate of 15.00

Then once a customer purchases 2 pads, this is when the handling fee kicks in and the handling fee changes. Example: a 2 & 4 pad box is $5.00; a 7 pad box is $7.00; and a 10 pad box is $9.00.

I could set this up in table rate and just add the handling fee to the shipping charge. Thats how I have it now. However, looks like I would need to set this up manually to however many pads a customer would choose. That could be a lot of entires. I have it set up now with the shipping adding the handling fees up to 20 pads. Then I set it up percentage, but the percentage isn't correct.

Is there a way for Zen Cart to automatically set the shipping to what I have it set at now for however many pads a customer wants to buy? Or would I have to enter each one manually?