Different shipping fee for different product

Is it possible to set a different shipping fee for different product or product category?

The Shipping Module for the Per Unit perweightunit utilizes the products_weight as the actual shipping price for the individual products ...

NOTE: be sure to adjust the Shipping/Packaging settings to allow for the high values that can result because of this ...

My products actually weigh the same and I am charging flat shipping fee.

The real difference is that some products are prescription and others are over the counter so they are easier to process.
Is there a way to hardcode that such and such category has a shipping charge of $5 and another category has shipping charge of $8?
Would it be possible and easier to do it using handling fee?

Thank you

Is that per product?

As in could you add the products_weight as 5.00 and 8.00 respectively and use the Per Unit perweightunit shipping module to manage this for you?

Thank you Linda.

You have an interesting suggestion but I am charging $5/8 for the first product in the category and then $1 for each additional one so I am not sure if your suggestion will work.

Nope you are wanting the opposite of how perweightunit works ...

And unfortunately the shipping_weight is a sum total passed to the shipping module(s) so you cannot utilize this method backwards ...

You could, however, write your own shipping module for this kind of calculation ...

Have you got your coder's hat on? :smartalec:

Or perhap$ your checkbook $itting around to entice a coder to write thi$ $hipping module for you? :cool: