Shipping Multiple Items

I've searched the forum but cannot find an explanation on how to ship multiple items. I want to charge the flat rate for the first item and then add $1.00 for each additional item ordered on the same order.

Item A = $5.00
Item B = $1.00

Right now it shows the shipping as $5.00 for each item.

Set your flat rate to $1 and your handling charge to $4.

I'm using the table rate method since each item has a different ship charge.

Sorry, I mis-read your question. :smile:

AFAIK, you can't have different shipping rates for different items unless you charge shipping based on weight - and maybe even then you'll need to adjust the weights of some of your products so that certain products fall within particular weight bands - then it becomes (relatively) straight forward.

But someone else might have a better idea :smile:

Yes, it is based on weight. If shipping is $5.95 then that is what I put in the weight field when I add inventory. But say the customer orders one product with shipping of $5.95 then another product that is almost weightless so I can just throw it in the same box, I want to charge $1.00 extra and not $11.90.

Ok. Then why not do that? - If the second product is almost weightless, then it should fit (usually) within the weight band of the first product.

If not, then maybe adjust the band of the first product so it does?

I am not set up to ship based on weight. In the weight field I put the amount I am going to charge for shipping a particular item but it is not based on weight. The weight field is only used to show the shipping charge but it is not calculated based on weight.

Hello everybody,

Can someone clear out the method I can use to :

• ship items national/international
  and knowing that:
• some items can be shipped as normal mail (cheap)
• other, not depending on weight, but on size or not fitting in normal mail and should be shipped as package mail

Now I'm using table rate based on weight, but it's expensive to send internationally (all rates package).

What I want to setup:

• price / item (every item can have a different price). If this can be based on categories, it's a better idea. The item should have 2 (or 3) prices that can be used to ship to the zones (normal mail).
• table rate: for 3 zones (working ok now)

The customer can decide wich shipping method to use, he will decide the cheapest one I'll suppose.

Can this be done? If I have to give more detail, please let me know.

Any help will be appriciated.
TIA,
Fossie

Can someone help? I know I've seen this addressed before and resolved but I can't find the post by searching the forum. I believe it does have to do something with the handling fee but I don't want to charge a handling fee on just one item sold.

Are you able to use the Per Unit perweightunit Shipping Module?

This uses the products_weight as the shipping charge ...

You could add a Handling Fee to manage minimum shipping charge then the products_weight to manage how much to charge on a per product per unit basis ...

I am using the weight field now for shipping. I don't understand how the handling fee works. I have never used perunitweight and don't know how it would affect how my site works currently. Could you elaborate?

In the weight field I have $4.95 $5.95 etc. but it defaults to $5.00 $6.00 etc. during checkout. Also on the product info page it says Shipping $5.95lbs. I've been unable to find the correct file to remove the lbs. I had rather it display the rounded up number but don't know how to do that unless I change the shipping of all 4,000+ products.

Please help if you can.

the products_weight * quantity * unit rate = shipping

Are you entering in the products_weight:
$5.95

Or are you entering in the products_weight:
5.95

Also note, perunitweight should have the Tare set to 0:0 and you should make the largest package high enough to the the shipping cost ... so if you think shipping will go to $500.00 set that to 500

I set the Tare to 0:50 (50 pounds)
PerUnitweight I set to 100 ($100.00)

I'm entering 5.95 without the $

Now this is what I see after I do the perunit on a $5.95 shipping item

Per Unit
Best Way $2,847.50

2-3 day shipping $0.00

The perweightunit is meant to be more or less the only shipping module ...

Enter in the products_weight 5.95

Set the setting on the shipping module to 1 for:

The shipping cost will be used to determin shipping charges based on: Product Quantity * Units (products_weight) * Cost per Unit - in an order that uses this shipping method.

Order 2 products ...

2 * 5.95 * 1 = 11.90

You are chargin a 100 or $100 per unit in the products_weight ... as in 100 times too much ... :eek:

Tara of 0:50 is adding 50lbs which translates on the perweightunit to $50.00 to the order ...

Well I went back to table rate like I've always been set up. I can't get the hang of setting up the perweight unit and tare and make it work correctly. I guess I will just put a notice on the shipping page that I will manually adjust the shipping charges after they complete the order. I know this is pretty archaic but it seems to be the only solution that will work for me.

Thanks,

Just want to see if anyone has any thoughts on this. I'm still not happy with the way this is working. If this is something that needs coding then let me know so I can post on the help wanted forum.

Bumping up to see if there are any new thoughts on this. I'm still stuck where I was.

Is this thread in the correct place? No one is responding to it here.

You said you went back to table rates ... not much to say to that

You asked if anyone had any thoughts on this ... but kinda vague as to thoughts on what part as you started one way and changed a few ... so not much to say to that

You bumped the post ... not much to say to that ...

Now you want to know if this is the right place to post ... Yes ... :smile:

Now post a whole complete thought in a post to tie together all your posts so we know what we are now talking about as you have flipped around the shipping methods and now we don't know precisely what it is you want to do, talk about, try, are using etc. ... :lamo:

Okay, let me start over. I can't seem to get the per unit weight set up correctly. I currently have my shipping charge in the weight field. I would like to have it set up so that if a customer orders more than one item then an additional $1.00 or $2.00 (based on the item weight) is added to the shipping charge rather than show the shipping charge twice. I will be shipping it in the same box so basically just want to add a little additional to cover the cost of packing and any extra weight it may add. The problem is that if it is a postcard that is no weight at all and I can ship two for the same as one. But if it is glassware, I may need to add a few dollars more.

Not sure if it can be done so just think about what I'm trying to do and see if you can come up with anything. Right now I just have a note at the top of the checkout page that I will reduce the shipping charge on multiple items but they have to complete the order first and then I update it.