Another shipping question!

[kissanpoika]

Hi,

I can see there is plenty about shipping in the forums but haven't been able to find anything that covers this exactly.

For most items I want to charge a flat rate of £1.95 for shipping with each additional item an extra 50p unless the order value exceeds £35 in which case shipping is free. However, on a couple of heavier items I want to charge £3.95 with no option of free shipping.

I thought there would be a way to tag items for different shipping rules but haven't managed to track anything down so at the moment I only have the first part implemented.

Does anyone know of a way in which I may be able to do this?

[fleetwood]

Hi Chris
There isn't a specific way you can tag products as described, although this is a workaround to partially fit your needs:

Set shipping by weight

Set individual product weight to say 10g each.

Set the heavy items to 5000g.
If its £3.95 per heavy item, then tick 'ship seperately', so each heavy product calculates as a new package of £3.95

Set up shipping table as follows:

10g = £1.95
20g = £2.45
30g = £2.95 etc

5000g = £3.95

This won't allow the free shipping over £35.
There is no way to include this automatically (a flaw that has been raised many a time).

You can always manually adjust the shipping to zero once the order arrives. although this is not a great help.

Martin