Shipping override per product

I'd like to be able to do the following:

1. Set the shipping options for all products.
2. Override the global shipping options for a single product with independent settings.

For instance, I need to set a special order (or handling) fee for certain products, but not all products. I don't see a way to do this without making a global setting that affects all products.

I'd like to also be able to apply flat rate shipping to a certain category of products or individual products, but not all products.

The shipping tare shouldn't be a global setting. The package size and weight varies from one product to the next - so it seems that it should be relative to individual products.

Can this already be done? I'm not seeing how to configure shipping for individual products.

Any thoughts on this?

As this is on a per Product basis with no rhyme or reason it would be easiest to add a new field or flag for this ...

If you code it correctly, you can also make it variable on a per Product basis such as:
products_shipping_handling_fee

Now any product can have a handling fee and you can make them whatever amount you want ...

On the collect_info.php you can set a default for this amount if most of your products use a certain amount or set to 0.00 if that is safer ...

Thanks! How would I add this value would be added to the shopping cart?

This would require some custom coding ... more than I can write off the top of my head without developing the whole thing over a few hours/days ...

You might wish to post the specifics in the Commercial Help Wanted if you are not a coder ... :smile:

I'm a coder, but I am new to the Zen Cart (only built this one site). Thanks for your input.