products weight.. help

[kallista]

is this for me to put in there the weight of the item? if so how do i put in for OZ like 4 oz?

help would be cool here

[XxWickedxX]

Im looking for the same thing so lets keep this topic popular.. It just says product weight but is that in pounds or what?

[kallista]

Im looking for the same thing so lets keep this topic popular.. It just says product weight but is that in pounds or what?

 

I been asking seems no one knows the answer.

 

I am greatful that we have this wonderful osc and for the ones that are here to help i know they could be doing other things but are here for us, but i wish i knew as much as them so i wouldnt have to sit here asking the same question over and over.

[viceroybooks]

The Product Weight is in Kilograms, so unfortunately, 4 OZ wold have to be entered as 0.1134.

You only need to enter a Product Weight if you are going to use it for something like automatic Postage Cost calculation based on weight.

[kallista]

The Product Weight is in Kilograms, so unfortunately, 4 OZ wold have to be entered as 0.1134.

You only need to enter a Product Weight if you are going to use it for something like automatic Postage Cost calculation based on weight.

 

ok so its in kilos not pounds?

and yes it for cal shipping

are you sure its kilos and not pounds?

[viceroybooks]

Sorry, my mistake. I used the Zone Based Shipping Module, which does come standard set to pounds, I forgot that I had changed it to Kilograms on my site.

[XxWickedxX]

Well I am setting up shipping based off each products weight just as you said. I able always able to round product weight off to the nearest pound so that my weights are always a whole number. As long as my table rate module (modified) is set up to accomidate this then the store looks at me entering whole numbers as just a unit or my case equal to whole number pounds. So this way products cost x amount of dollars for shipping per pound or per whole number 1, 2, 3 etc etc. This was my way of doing away with kilograms. This is easier for me since my products wieght are always rounded up to the nearest pound. So if I set a base price of 2.50 and for every 1 pound or unit increment another 2.50 is charged so that an item weighing 2 pounds or units cost 5 dollars in shipping.

 

I have just recently edited the table.php to accomidate this but I keep encountering one problem. I edited the table.php file to be

 

[baseprice]:[increment change][cost for increment change]

or

2.50:1.00:2.50

 

the equation seems to work perfectly with increments but for some reason I always have a base price of 20 dollars that I can not figure out how to get rid of. In my equation if my change [baseprice] which is 2.50 to a value of "0" then my base price for the shipping goes from 22.50 down to 20 dollars when it should technically now be zero.. I cant figure out where this 20 dollars is coming from.

 

I edited a portion of table.php from looking like this

 

$table_cost = split("[:,]" , MODULE_SHIPPING_TABLE_COST);
  $size = sizeof($table_cost);
  for ($i=0, $n=$size; $i<$n; $i+=2) {
	if ($order_total <= $table_cost[$i]) {
	  $shipping = $table_cost[$i+1];
	  break;
	}
  }

 

and replaced that with this..

 

$table_cost = split(":" , MODULE_SHIPPING_TABLE_COST);
$shipping = 0;
	$baseSO = $table_cost[0];
$incrSO = $table_cost[1];
$costincSO = $table_cost[2];
$shipping = $baseSO + ($order_total * ($costincSO / $incrSO)- ($costincSO / $incrSO));

This would accomplish this which this all is a contribution I found.

 

 

E.g.Base cost for first kg = $5.00,

Weight increment = 1kg (normally easier to work it out per kg, but the formula calculates it down via a divide to a cost per 1 unit)

Cost per increment = $1.5

 

Enter the values in table as [baseprice]:[weightincrement]:[costforincrement] e.g 5.00:1.00:1.50

 

With that last example that means something weight 1 unit as we will refer to it here would cost 5 dollars in shipping. If I add another item that weighs one unit as well then the shipping price would increase another 1.50 to make 6.50 as the shipping total.. But again I have this mystery 20 dollars that keeps being thrown in there and I dont know why.