Per Unit shipping, but cut off after a max no of items

Hi

I want to enable a shipping rate that works on a per unit rate - I have already worked that out and it is fine ... BUT I don't want multiple purchases to continue adding all the shipping together.

Instead, I want to set a maximum $ value on shipping, no matter how many items are added to the cart.

I have searched everywhere in the forums but am unable to find exactly what I am looking for.

I am playing with the Free Shipping Options but it seems that no matter what I input, the shipping is calculated by cutting the amount in half, rather than discontinuing adding them together. What I am meaning is, I have the per unit rate set to $1.00 and the weight of each product set to the amount I want for shipping : e.g. item shipping amount is $15.00, so I have set the weight to 15g ... this is working fine for me. It is the multiples that I am unable to configure.

Help would be really appreciated thanks :)P

I would recommend upgrading to v1.3.5 as somewhere in the v1.3.x series there were changes to several of the Shipping Modules in addition to other bug fixes and security issues ...

Also after upgrading be sure to run through the v1.3.5 fixes:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=45377

Thanks Ajeh.

I haven't yet upgraded because I was concerned that I would get too many problems that I couldn't rectify, as I am only fairly new to all this .. so I was waiting until the patch gets released.

Has it been released yet, do you know? ... because I haven't been able to see it anywhere.

We are not quite done with it yet ... but working on it ...

I am trying to recall the Shipping updates and if they are just shipping module related or changes to the classes/functions ... since v1.3.1

If you are lucky and they are just module related then you could load them, uninstall and reinstall the shipping modules to reflect any changes ... into your current version ...

But I have not had time to go back over the all the code to really check ...

I will see if I can manage a bit longer then before I update because I just would die if all my hours of work got blown away with the update === as I said, I am fairly new and I don't think I'd know what to do if it got wrecked :)

I did see another thread to which you answered, but the person asking didn't give a lot of info so I am unsure if they had their problem rectified ... but they were wanting just the same as what I am ... multiple shipping combining and reducing the end shipping cost.

Here is the thread to which you replied :
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=279556&postcount=7

Is that the same as my query? .. although that person has already upgraded.