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Customer would like the following shipping, can this be done?

First Item: $4.50
Each Additional Item: $3.00
Max Shipping $13.50

I can't find a solution for this. Any ideas?

Thanks.
Phil

Phil,

You can setup the First Item/Each Additional Item shipping by selecting Flat
Base Each Shipping under Commerce Setup->Shipping. Unfortunately though it
doesn't look like you can set a maximum amount though.

-Jon

"Phil Bernstein" <phil_bernstein@REMOVESPAMnet-waves.net> wrote in message
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Customer would like the following shipping, can this be done?

First Item: $4.50
Each Additional Item: $3.00
Max Shipping $13.50

I can't find a solution for this. Any ideas?

Thanks.
Phil

There are several ways to do this that I can think of:

1) Shipping by Weight can be modified to do this. If each product is given
a
weight of 1, then your weight ranges could look like:

0.0 to 1.1 = 4.50
1.2 to 2.1 = 7.50
2.2 to 3.1 = 10.50
3.2 to 99999.99 = 13.50

Disadvantages: since these aren't the real weights of the products, you
probably
can't do this and use the realtime UPS integration of v6 at the same time
because the wrong weight will throw off the UPS shipping rates.

2) In v6.1 (Manager or Pro) there is a new Handling Charge feature that
can be
adapted to do this, there is a base amount, you can set a per-product
amount,
and you can have a maximum amount.

Disadvantages: there is only one Handling Charge calculation, so you can't
set
it up with multiple options (i.e. Ground vs. Next Day, etc) like you can
for the
real Shipping methods.

3) In v6.1 (Pro-only) there is a Custom Shipping Add-On API where you can
write/have written by someone a module that calculates shipping values
almost
any way you want.

Disadvantages: you have to write this or have it written, which takes time
and/or money. Also, you can't use the other Shipping methods in
conjunction with
this one, so if you wanted to use the other methods as well you would have
to
write them into the custom module itself.


-Loren




J Graham wrote:

Phil,

You can setup the First Item/Each Additional Item shipping by selecting
Flat
Base Each Shipping under Commerce Setup->Shipping. Unfortunately though
it
doesn't look like you can set a maximum amount though.

-Jon

"Phil Bernstein" <phil_bernstein@REMOVESPAMnet-waves.net> wrote in
message
news:ahs82o$cdo$1@support.shopsite.com...
Customer would like the following shipping, can this be done?

First Item: $4.50
Each Additional Item: $3.00
Max Shipping $13.50

I can't find a solution for this. Any ideas?

Thanks.
Phil