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8 Feb 2007, 11:16 AM
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Offer Free Shipping on some items of an order

G'Day All,

I was pointed to this absolutely wonderful program by some close friends and I have to say that I have got nothing but admiration for both the software and the community.

Okay, enough of the groveling !

I have set up the Percentage Shipping (located in achives) to apply a rate to the total value of the order.
I have also got some items which I have marked as Always Free Shipping. These are packages, so I obviously wish people to buy them instead of individual items so I offer free shipping as an incentive.

When I have a mixed order of packages and single items and am using the Percentage shipping, it successfully works out the minimum flat rate and then the percentage rate for if the value is above the minimum, however this no longer realises that the free shipping items are actaully not meant to be included in the tally.

When I had the Table calculator running (too many dodgy fake % calculations in it since it can't work out percentages, just fixed dollar values) it was successfully recognising the packages were free shipping and calculating the correct rate for the other items.

I would love to ideally use a percentage calculator, but it is letting me down at the moment.
The site is complete and so my wife is really on my back about it now to get it fully operational.
Any ideas ?

8 Feb 2007, 4:00 PM
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Re: Offer Free Shipping on some items of an order

You might look at how the other shipping modules manage the free items ...

More than likely this has been excluded from that module so it does not know how to treat them ...

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13 Feb 2007, 10:55 AM
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Re: Offer Free Shipping on some items of an order

Thanks for the information.

I'm still a HTML newbie, so I'm struggling to teach myself php.
I think I'll try a month of dodgy table calculations and free shipping and then a month of percentage shipping with free bonus to see which sells more so I can know if I need to spend more time working out php or I can cheat !