Special Shipping for special items. how?

I have USPS and UPS calculators setup on our website for shipping. However i have a smaller problem.

We ship our large sized items by freight. So for a number of our products we charge a flat rate of $139.00 for freight. How can I implement that into ZenCart so that when someone places an order that includes those large items automatically make the shipping cost $139.00?

Thank you

What indicates that the large products are large and need freight shipping?

What happens when you have 2 or more of the freight products in the cart?

i want to be able to mark those products that are "freight only"

If two products (that are freight size) are bought together the price would still be the same $139.00 for both of them.

thanks for your help

You are going to need some type of test for these Freight Products in the products table ...

This could be done with a new field and then that can be used to test if 1 or more are in the cart ... if so, then the shipping modules can be enabled/disabled using the $this->enabled by setting it to true or false in your shipping modules ...

There is a function in the shopping_cart.php class that can be used to test for what is in the cart based on a field in products table:

  /**
   * Method to calculate the number of items in a cart based on an abitrary property
   *
   * $check_what is the fieldname example: 'products_is_free'
   * $check_value is the value being tested for - default is 1
   * Syntax: $_SESSION['cart']->in_cart_check('product_is_free','1');
   *
   * @param string product field to check
   * @param mixed value to check for
   * @return integer number of items matching restraint
   */
  function in_cart_check($check_what, $check_value='1') {

hey Linda,

would you be willing to do this for me (as paid work ofcourse)?

THank you