Different shipping methods for different categories

[Ajeh]

You said the bagship was based on the weight of the Product ...

There isn't any kind of discount built in for that ...

[Trice]

You said the bagship was based on the weight of the Product ...

There isn't any kind of discount built in for that ...

Yea that is what I had originally posted, I'm sorry that I confused you and myself. I later made the comment that I was going to do them both relatively the same way and that I had them both working great in a table rate, but just not together. So there is no way around this then. Can the two table rates be combined into one?

[Ajeh]

The problem is when there is a cart with a combination of the reg and bagship ... then you do not have a solution ...

You are trying to give a discount on the bagship but those are based on the products_weight ...

There isn't a simple way to test the products in the cart and obtain the shipping costs to know the difference ...

Do all the bagship have the same weight or is it different between the different products marked as bagship?

[Trice]

The problem is when there is a cart with a combination of the reg and bagship ... then you do not have a solution ...

You are trying to give a discount on the bagship but those are based on the products_weight ...

There isn't a simple way to test the products in the cart and obtain the shipping costs to know the difference ...

Do all the bagship have the same weight or is it different between the different products marked as bagship?

All the bagship items will ship at 8, but we would like to make the second one ship at 4 and the third ship at 2 and anything thereafter is free

[Ajeh]

So all bagship have a products_weight of 8 ... correct?

So there could be an additional calculation to see how many bagship are in the cart based on the weight being 8 and adjust the charge ...

$extra_bagship = 0;
switch (true) {
case ($shipping_weight == 8):
  $extra_bagship = 8;
  break;
case ($shipping_weight == 16):
  $extra_bagship = 12;
  break;
case ($shipping_weight == 24):
  $extra_bagship = 14;
  break;
case ($shipping_weight == 32):
  $extra_bagship = 14;
  break;
}

Then change the line:

    'cost' => $shipping + MODULE_SHIPPING_TABLE2_HANDLING + ($shipping_weight * 1.00) )));

to read:

    'cost' => $shipping + MODULE_SHIPPING_TABLE2_HANDLING + $extra_bagship )));

[Trice]

So all bagship have a products_weight of 8 ... correct?

So there could be an additional calculation to see how many bagship are in the cart based on the weight being 8 and adjust the charge ...

$extra_bagship = 0;
switch (true) {
case ($shipping_weight == 8):
  $extra_bagship = 8;
  break;
case ($shipping_weight == 16):
  $extra_bagship = 12;
  break;
case ($shipping_weight == 24):
  $extra_bagship = 14;
  break;
case ($shipping_weight == 32):
  $extra_bagship = 14;
  break;
}

Then change the line:

    'cost' => $shipping + MODULE_SHIPPING_TABLE2_HANDLING + ($shipping_weight * 1.00) )));

to read:

    'cost' => $shipping + MODULE_SHIPPING_TABLE2_HANDLING + $extra_bagship )));

I'm sure that you get this often, but you are AWESOME!! You have been so much help! I have been pulling my hair out, I haven't slept in days and I think I lost my kid around here somewhere because my head has been buried in this screen! Thank you Thank you Thank you!

[Ajeh]

You are most welcome, glad that all of this customization resulted in getting the shipping to work in the manner that you are needing ... remember us as you become rich and famous ...

[cropinstop]

Hi
I have a site with multiple dropshippers at different locations with different shipping rates, so I have employed per-category shipping based on weight.

In order to be competitive with my competition, I have developed a very crude modification to the add-on which provides free shipping for all items in a group when the total sales in that group exceed a dollar threshold (say $50). The threshold per group is currently hard-coded into one of the files. I would like to integrate the thresholds into the admin for this shipping method, but I am not a programmer, so it is beyond my skill level.

If anyone else with programming knowledge is interested in this capability, and wishes to help me develop this enhancement, reply to this post, and I will post my mods on-line.

[everlost]

Hi there,

I am wondering if this method of hiding a particular shipping option would work with the Royal Mail module?
I am finding that as the Royal Mail uses size as well as weight to calculate its prices that I am often subsidising the postage for items bought from my shop as although the weight is low enough for the order to be sent as a 'large letter', the size means it should really be priced as a 'packet' which is a higher cost.
At the moment I have changed my settings so that everything must be posted as a packet, but would like to be able to just stop the categories with larger items from being sent as a large letter (as otherwise folks will end up paying more postage than they need).

So basically can I specify that if a basket/order has one or more items from the excluded (bulky) categories that it has to be sent via the 'packet' option, regardless of if there are smaller items in the order too?

Any help you can give would be much appreciated...so thanks in advance for your help.

[Ajeh]

I have not used the Royal Mail shipping module but you should be able to customize it in a similar manner ...