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Proper UPS shipping calculation?
For starters, there's diemnsional weight versus actual weight, and I see nothing in the UPS shipping moduel for handling dimensional weight.
Now here are the issues.
SOME products will always be shipped in their own box, while others will be packaged together.
Weight is NOT the sole determination of what can be grouped, and how much.
this person sells surplus computer stuff of various types.
For example, many memory chips could be packaged in one box, while a flat panel monitor, while not that heavy, will most likely get it's own box.
"Dimensional weight' of the products themselves (which vary widely) is also a consideration on how many can be packed in a single box to save on shipping.
Additionally, since this is all surplus and used stuff, some of which is stuffed into a miscellaneous category, items will go into and out of stock on a regular basis. This of course makes things even more complicated.
His original ebay store I'm replacing simply had all items bought individually (had a cart size of 1) and adjustments were made during paypal checkout manually to account for things. I of course need to be able to automate this.
As I understand it, when an order goes over the maximum shipping weight, then it is split into multiple boxes. But what if a single item is over the max? is it unshippable, or deos it simply mean that anything weighing above the max automatically gets it's own box?
And how to figure dimensional item weight into the calculations? (what about items that won't all fit into the same box, even though the total is below the max weight?)
For starters, i just want to implement a simple rule of "any item with X weight or greater gets it's own box, and any set of items uder X weight gets boxed together". And i also need to somehow figure the dimensional weight of the shipping boxes into the UPS shipping calculation.
