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Shipping Fees


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Hi

 

i would like to implement our shipping fees into the shop but i don't see a solution how i could do this. Maybe someone of you has an idea how i could do it.

 

In terms of shipping I got two basic catagories of products (i don't mean the shop-product-categories here), "A" and "B". "A" are parcel that are max. 0.6m x 0.6m x 1.2m. "B" are parcels that are over this measures.

In both catagories the shiping fees are calculated based on weight "2kg", "5kg", "10kg", and so on. That leads to a fee-table like this:

 

A: 8.50, 10.50, 13.5, ...

B: 10.50, 12.50, 17.50, ...

 

The shop should now select the right fee based on which categorie a product belongs too. The shipping fee stays the same, no matter if the customer selects one product or five. And, if a customer selects more than one product, it should always take the highest shipping fee (so if there is one product from categorie "b" and five from categorie "A" it should select the "b" shipping fee).

 

I search for a while in thif forum, and in the contributions and thought about it for a while but i couldn't find a way to implement such a shipping fee table into the shop.

 

Anyone out there that knows a possibility to do so?

 

Thanks a lot for your help

Frank

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The shipping fee stays the same, no matter if the customer selects one product or five.

 

just to make sure this is not misunderstood: of course the fee changes if the weight accumulates to next higher value. I just wanted to say, if a customer buys 5 products and i.e. they are under 5kg, he just pays for 5 kilo no matter how many product it are.

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So lets see, you use a accumulative weight for all products together. i.e.

5 items @ 1kg each = 5kg right. 6 items @ 1kg = 6kg the next higher rate right. I suppose the next question would have to be, 'Do you package them together?'

And how do you know when the carton size is over size???????

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Hi bloodshoteyes

 

yes, i will package them all together.

And yes, as you suggested, the part with accumulating weight works. But as far as i can see, only for one catagorie.

And, at the moment, i see no way to identify if a product size is over size. I thought about two ways to implement that (just a thought, no solution):

 

- doing something with the weight - say, normalsize is i.e. 1kg where as oversize is alway 1000 + 1 kg. So i can determine if a product is oversize.

 

- Adding a product attribute (that would mean to add something to the database and do a lot of scripting work). That attribute would indicate the pakage size. This would be quite a heavy work i guess (lot files ot be modified):

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