Help with template and Shipping

[tom0360]

I have created a custom template to be used for my more info pages but would like to add a quantity option to add more then at a time to cart if wanted. Is there a Tag for this or is it done through a html form?


Also we charge a flat 10% of order total for shipping. If the order is $100.00 before taxes, the shipping is $10.00. If the order is $200.00 before taxes, the shipping is $20.00. Is this a possible using the shipping options available in shopsite or would we need to look into a possible API for this?


Thanks for all the help,

Tom

[loren_d_c]

If your custom product template is using the [-- PRODUCT.OrderCheckout --] tag to create the order buttons for the product in the More Info Page definition, then all you should need to do is Edit Product Layout on the specific product and check the 'Display Order Quantity' checkbox, Save Changes, and Publish.

If you are not using [-- PRODUCT.OrderCheckout --] or you only want the pull-down menu(s) to display on the more info page and not the regular store page, then see this example from the documentation:
http://www.shopsite.com/templates/examp ... tions.html

-Loren

[Jim]

Regarding your shipping question.
There is no shipping option based on a percentage of the cost but you can do it if you have a Pro level store.

Set your shipping to be the ShopSite Shipping by Currency and set the first range to be 0.00 to some large number but leave the shipping rate at 0.00.
Next enable the Handling Charge option and set the options to
0.00 plus SubTotal times .10

So when a shopper adds items to the cart an amount equal to 10% of the subtotal will be added as a handling charge to the shipping cost (0.00) and displayed to the shopper.

[tom0360]

Jim & Loren,

Thanks very much for the help. : )

[tom0360]

We are currently trying to set up shopsite to use the following shipping options.

shipping is 10% of subtotal + s/h charges if they apply not applied to free shipping items

subtotal of $0.00 - $49.99 - add $5.00 shipping and handling charge

subtotal of $50.00 and up - $0.00 shipping and handling charge


Under Shipping Services and Rates:

Shipping by Currency: is checked, and under configure:
Row 1 $0.00 to $49.99 = $5.00 ground is checked
Row 2 $50.00 to $1000000 = $0.00

Handling Charges: Handling Charge is checked
Handling Charge Formula: Base $0.00 plus subtotal times .10

Free Shipping: enable free shipping is checked


Everything seems to work fine until we combine an item that receives free shipping with items that do not. Once you combine them shopsite applies the handling charges to to free shipping items also.

When you have a cart with only free shipped items no s/h charges are applied.


Is there a work around for these so that we can charge shipping based on .10 of the subtotal of only products that do not apply for free shipping?



Thanks
Tom

[loren_d_c]

Looks like when there are a mix of shipping and no shipping products in the cart, the no shipping products are still being included in the subtotals, weight totals, and product totals used for the handling charge feature's formulaic calculation. I don't see a way to change this currently, it would have to be resolved in the ShopSite code in a future version. However, I do see a possible workaround.

Instead of using subtotal times .10 in the handling charge formula, use weight times .10. Then in all of your shipping products set the weight to the same as the product price, and in all of your no shipping products set the weight to 0. Now these no shipping products will have no affect on the handling charge because adding them won't add any weight to the total weight of the items in the cart.

-Loren

[tom0360]

Thanks Loren,

I had the same thought, think we are going to just change our shipping policies and prices around to fit the cart better.



Thanks Again,
Tom