I need help with shipping prices PLEASE

My ? is this. I am a whole seller who needs to set up shipping prices for each individual Item I'm selling. I do not ship my product out by weight, but buy the price. I calculate my shipping buy the product price then my warehouse ships it out. Can anybody please help me out please.

I believe that there is a percentage shipping add-on in the Downloads ...

Thank you for the help, but that seems to not work out for me. what I'd like to do is have a shipping cost field on the product description page, where I can set a flat shipping price for each item. and since I'm using drop shippers, I'm not shipping from my warehouse, and USPS and UPS aren't really options because I use multiple suppliers in different locations in the US. The table rate just will not do what I need it to do. If you could suggest something else I would appreciate it a lot.

Randy

The built in Shipping Module Per Unit perweightunit is designed to use the products_weight field as the actual shipping cost of the product ...

You might try that ...

How do I set that up. I see you have been around here for a while now Linda. I'm not real sure about some thing on here and how they work. Do I need to cut off all my shipping Modules except for this one you are talking about . Will that one show up on each page I set a price for. example I want to charge $10.00 for this Item and $ 5.00 for that Item $69.00 for another.
Thank you again
Randy

The part where I write the code that runs your shop might be one of the reasons I hang out here a lot ... :cool:

If you set the Tare weights to 0:0 and the Maximum Size to 5000, remember you are about to use this as a dollar amount and not a weight ...

Then when you set a products_weight to 12 the shipping for that product is now $12.00 ... set the products_weight to 0.25 and the shipping for that product is now $0.25 ...

When you install the Per Unit perweightunit Shipping Module, the Shipping Cost per Unit is default to 1 or $1.00 ...

NOTE: This also allows you to clone this shipping module for say Canada to be Shipping Cost per Unit 1.25 so that a products_weight set to 10 which is $10.00 for the US would be $12.50 for Canada ... or however you might want to configure this ...

You have been a great help Linda. It is working out great. I have 1 more question for you, then I will leave you alone until tomorrow lol. Is there away I can give my customers a discount on shipping if they buy more than 1 Item from me. Is there A module for that like there is for free shipping if you buy over a certain amount.
Thanks again
Randy

I don't know of one off the top of my head ... but perhaps someone else has something like this ... :smile:

Thank you Linda for all your help. If you hear of something , Please let me know. Thanks again

I read this post and am using this little "trick", using the "weight" to set a shipping price for each individual item. It works great except for one thing. All my products have these crazy "weights" (the shipping charge). If I charge $7.95 to ship a large pillow, it says the "weight is 7.95 lbs., which it isn't. My CD's are $2.00 to ship, and again it shows the weight of a CD as 2 lbs.

Can I remove the Weight from showing at all? That would work fine for me since I never ship by weight.

Donald

Donald,

Yes, you can easily set the weight not to show on the product descriptions. Go into admin and under "configuration" click on "product listing". Find "Display Product Weight" change value from 1 to 0 to prevent the weight from displaying.

Hope that helps.

Duh! lol. that sounds easy! I should have been able to figure that one out myself! Thanks for helping a nooby!

Donald

No problem! The forums are great for these sorts of questions.

Happy zenning!

I am also a drop shipper for most of my items and I use the Table Rate in my Zen Cart, if anyone would like to see what I have you are more than welcome to email me.

Admin> Modules> Shipping>

Click on Table Rate

Mine works really well! Just make sure that when your adding your products that you also add a weight to them as I didn't because I didn't think that I needed to but now that I have some free shipping items, I'm having a problem there.

Let me correct and clarify my earlier posting. To prevent the weight from displaying on the product info page, you should go into the Catalog tab under Product types. Then select the product type of your products you don't want to display the weight for. Click Edit Layout and then find "show weight" in the list and set it to 0.

:oops:Sorry for the slightly wrong info above!