Delivery charge question

[markgardner]

Hi

Almost all our orders are shipped free of charge, however, there are some lines where we sell where this isn't feasible, for example we have products weighing 15-20kg and retailing at £7.

What I would like to do is charge a delivery surcharge on these items of say £5 up to a maximum figure of £15, i.e. the customer could buy 5 of them and the total charge is £15.

I thought about doing this with components, I can add the £5 surcharge ok but cannot figure how to maximise it at £15.

Any ideas? Is there another alternative way?

Cheers

Mark

[Tim Weaver]

Can't you just set up shipping by weight. set it free up to a certain weight, then set you bands up to the maximum you want. Finally select the option to "Take the higest value in the table" for the excess?

This would work unless someone orders a lot of your free delivery items and they have weights set >0 which add up to more than your threshold. The way around this is to set the default weight as 0, and make sure all your free delivery products are set to 0.

[markgardner]

This would work but it won't allow the default weight to be zero.

[Tim Weaver]

I don't know what quantities of your items customers might buy, but you could enter 0.000001 as the default and/or enter 0 for each product.