bobpell Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 I've activated the table rate and it works with single item orders, however with multiple items orders it add the rate to each item. Lost several orders today alone because of this. Ex: A $31.00 order for 3 small items developed a $ 44.25 shipping charge. Not so good. I'm not a coder, just doing the best I can. Price, not weight is on - the table rate has been set properly - no other rates are activated. Thank you in advance for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebikerboy1 Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 I've activated the table rate and it works with single item orders, however with multiple items orders it add the rate to each item. Lost several orders today alone because of this. Ex: A $31.00 order for 3 small items developed a $ 44.25 shipping charge. Not so good. I'm not a coder, just doing the best I can. Price, not weight is on - the table rate has been set properly - no other rates are activated. Thank you in advance for your help. i ended up going with weight instead of per item. it ended up being easier. set the minimum weight to 0 and rememebr 1.0 = 1lb so the math in ounces (16 ounces in a pound right?) can get a little tricky but after you play with the weight you can usualy get it close enough to actual weight. hope it helps :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobpell Posted July 1, 2009 Author Share Posted July 1, 2009 i ended up going with weight instead of per item. it ended up being easier. set the minimum weight to 0 and rememebr 1.0 = 1lb so the math in ounces (16 ounces in a pound right?) can get a little tricky but after you play with the weight you can usualy get it close enough to actual weight. hope it helps :) That would be quite complicated I believe, but I'll consider it. There are 18,000 items available and although the weights are in the database I would not know how to calculate it. Rather use price if possible. Thank you very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebikerboy1 Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 well i guess im special. here is what i do. i tried the per item and got the same result you got. i have a inventory of over 1000 items myself. upon entering the item in oscommerce you get to put the weight on the field on the bottom of the listing. for instance if i have a toy that weights 1/2 a pound i put the weight at .50. if it weighs 2lbs its 2.0. the fun comes when its an ounce. i just put .10 and at checkout it adds it all together and gives the customer the aproxamate shipping total and they pay. a good 80% of the time im acurate withen 2.00 of the actual cost of shipping. thats just me though. im still fighting getting it to stop telling customers parcel post is more expensive then priority. last i heard though theres no easy fix for that one. also if you ship international it can be a pain too. paypal wont read first class international at all and only lets you choose global or priority international. but then again i dont know if you use paypal or not. anyways im ranting. good luck if you get this to work :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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