Free shipping on some items

[MEost]

I wonder if anybody can help. My company supplies office products (toner cartridges, fax machines, printers etc) and some of the consumable items are supplied as part of a contract which means that when the customer orders them they are supplied free of charge. However not all consumables sold to a particular customer will be contract items so we may need to charge for delivery on some orders. We need to set up a number of ways to charge for shipping as follows:

a) Standard delivery charge on hardware up to a certain weight
b) More expensive delivery on heavier items
c) Free delivery on consumables orders containing contract consumables
d) Chargeable delivery on consumables orders where no contract items are ordered and possibly where the order value is below a certain value ie £150

Hope somebody can help

[Mike Hughes]

I think you can do this using weights.

a) Standard delivery charge on hardware up to a certain weight

=> Assign standard hardware a weight of 1.0 Kg

b) More expensive delivery on heavier items

=> Assign heavier items a weight of 10Kg

c) Free delivery on consumables orders containing contract consumables

=> Assign contract consumables a weight of 0.01kg
=> Assign non contract consumables a weight of 0.00kg

d) Chargeable delivery on consumables orders where no contract items are ordered and possibly where the order value is below a certain value ie £150

Now create a shipping table as follows:

< 0.01 Kg = consumable delivery charge

< 1.0 Kg = Free delivery on contract consumables

< 10 Kg = hardware delivery charge

Anything over = heavier items delivery charge

I can't think how to combine this with the 'orders below £150' bit. probably best to leave it out unless someone else comes up with an idea.

Mike