UPS Prices

[littld62]

Has anyone else noticed the price difference in UPS?

 

The computer qoutes one price, and the UPS Computer prices a other...?

 

There anyway to make them more even?

[wjpatterson]

Has anyone else noticed the price difference in UPS?

 

The computer qoutes one price, and the UPS Computer prices a other...?

 

There anyway to make them more even?

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You should always remember that the shipping cost returned by UPS is only an estimation there is no guarantee that the shipping will cost exactly the same when you will do the actual shippment. The good thing is that they more often hit than miss with quotes.

[littld62]

You should always remember that the shipping cost returned by UPS is only an estimation there is no guarantee that the shipping will cost exactly the same when you will do the actual shippment. The good thing is that they more often hit than miss with quotes.

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Is there a way to increase the shipping cost? I know Tar and all that.. and product weight.. I sell small things like maybe 1 to 2 pound items.. I think they would notice something that is 1 pound have a weight of 3 pounds...

[Jan Zonjee]

Is there a way to increase the shipping cost?

I suppose, but haven't tried this now, that you can tweek the cost in checkout_shipping.php (lines 120-122 shown) for example by multiplying the $quote[0]['methods'][0]['cost'] with a factor (or let your own function loose on it?).

I assume you can do this in the individual shipping methods, just before they return this array.

              $shipping = array('id' => $shipping,
                               'title' => (($free_shipping == true) ?  $quote[0]['methods'][0]['title'] : $quote[0]['module'] . ' (' . $quote[0]['methods'][0]['title'] . ')'),
                               'cost' => $quote[0]['methods'][0]['cost']);

[OceanRanch]

Within the UPS admin section you can set a "handling fee" to increase the shipping cost.

 

HTH

Tom

[katiediddesign]

Other posts have talked about this... if you have everything set up in admin, AND your boxes aren't oversized (and triggering UPS's dimensional weight)... then the prices will be exactly the same.

 

You need to make sure that your tare weight is zero, that your handling fee is zero, and that you have set your shipping origin zip code correctly in the configuration section of admin. If you do these things, then the shipping prices should return the exact same thing that you would get off of UPS's site, as this is what the script is doing... pulling it down from UPS when you load the page. If there is a difference, then it a differece in something entered wrong somewhere.

 

Keep in mind that both in admin and on the UPS site, you need to specify whether the delivery address is for residential or commerce, and how you get your box to UPS... these affect the rates, too.

 

As for the dimensional weight... if you want to see if that is making the difference, then put really small dimensions into the UPS site and see if it then returns the same rates. If it doesn't, then you've still got something wrong in admin. If they're the same, then you know that UPS's dimensional rate is kicking in... and I'm trying to find a fix or alternate solution to that at the moment...

[fleapikr]

"... If there is a difference, then it a differece in something entered wrong some..."

 

I notice if I put 1 pound for the product weight, at checkout the customer is being charged for 13 pounds ($15.00) shipping. I know there is a slight charge over $100 value, (cd player was $169) maybe that is where it picked it up. UPS.com quoted $3.00 less at $12.31 for 7 lb 17"x12"x10" box, residential

[svegliando]

"...  If there is a difference, then it a differece in something entered wrong some..."

 

I notice if I put 1 pound for the product weight, at checkout the customer is being charged for 13 pounds ($15.00) shipping. I know there is a slight charge over $100 value,  (cd player was $169) maybe that is where it picked it up. UPS.com quoted $3.00 less at $12.31 for 7 lb 17"x12"x10" box, residential

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I noticed that my UPS quotes were always a few dollars less than those on UPS.com. It appears that the UPS shipping module (UPS CHoice) assumes that you have a UPS account which will generate a different quote. It wasn't until I selected this option on UPS.com (just to compare quotes) that I started to get an exact quote match. In other words, if you're comparing the UPS quotes from osC to those on UPS.com, make sure you indicate on UPS.com that you are billing shipping charges to a UPS account.