flat-rate shipping charge .. but free downloads

[davidfarndon]

I would like to set up section of downloads, most .. if not all .. will be free of charge - service manuals, instruction sheets and the like as PDFs or whatever. Setting them up as a product with an add to basket seems the neatest method (first time I have used digital download part of Actinic).

However, for the actual products there is a fixed shipping charge, regardless of size of order.

using a simple £xxx shipping on everything ends up with a £xxx charge on the digital download too .. I obviously have to use a more complex method.

Can anyone show me a really simple 'do this and it'll work' way.

as always .. thanks in advance.

[RuralWeb]

Use shipping by weight - set the downloads to a weight that calculates £0 and the other products to a weight that calculates the shipping cost you want to charge. There is a more detailed guide on the forum if you do a search.

[davidfarndon]

thanks ...

thank you .. I had a feeling that was the direction of travel.

If anyone at Actinic happens across this posting, maybe I could add to the 'wish-list' for v.9 something to do with a tick box on a product which was something along the lines of 'exempt this product from shipping charges'

[cdicken]

Another option is to use 'Category' based shipping and create one shippning category called 'standard' and another one called 'download'. You can set the standard one to have a fixed charge, and the download one to be free shipping. Then you just need to set the 'shipping category' of each product to set whether something is a download item or not.