johnjr Posted January 8, 2005 Share Posted January 8, 2005 I'm just starting to evaluate different e-commerce packages to determine which one I want to use for a new 'store'. Is it possible in OS Commerce to set up different shipping calculations for different products? I have some products that need to have shipping costs added based on the weight of the products, either using 'realtime' UPS rates or a 'table' of rates, based on weight ranges (and possibly, some products would use one method while other products would use the other method). And I have some products that need to have shipping costs added based on a 'flat rate, per item' basis. Can OS Commerce handle both of these? Is it possible to specify which 'method' of shipping cost calculation is done, for each specific product in the 'store'? John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnjr Posted January 10, 2005 Author Share Posted January 10, 2005 Does no one no the answer to this question? I just need to know if the shipping costs for diffferent products can be calculated differently. In other words, can one product be set up for 'flat rate, per item' shipping costs, while another product can be set up for 'weight'-based shipping costs? John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnjr Posted January 10, 2005 Author Share Posted January 10, 2005 In playing around with osCommerce, I see where a customer can select the type of shipping that he/she wants, from whatever shipping 'methods' are 'enabled', when they place their order. Is it possible to 'limit' the shipping 'methods' that are displayed, based on the specific products that are ordered? Or would this require some 'custom' programming? John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Zonjee Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 Is it possible to 'limit' the shipping 'methods' that are displayed, based on the specific products that are ordered? Or would this require some 'custom' programming?As far as I know the osC code that would require custom programming. The checkout_shipping page gets it's enabled shipping methods from a database query. I guess it is not hard to add some logic before it to enable other methods to be used depending on the product(s). To my knowledge it would be hard to pick apart the shopping cart and give different shipping methods for one part of the products and show different shipping methods for another product (say truck shipping for a real heavy product) and UPS/FedEx for the other products. For the checkout_shipping page it might be possible to do, but I think the rest of the code is not made for this kind of choosing shipping. But perhaps others have a different opinion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanRanch Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 Try the following contribution. http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,367/page,5 HTH Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigaboogie Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 Try the following contribution. http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,367/page,5 HTH Tom <{POST_SNAPBACK}> This is cool! How's about doing something like this for different categories? So, say, you could have whole categories of products that would have free shipping, etc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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