Products by Wieght

[littlegems]

Hi
Im trying to find out if its possible to add a line and charge by wieght
ie £12 Kg of goods and if the goods come in large pieces so its only possible to send 0.9Kg or 1.2Kg is it possible to adjust the price on each line like this automatically without having to make a price ajustment for each line and have to work out each adjustment on the calculater
what Im trying to get is can it be used like you would on a spread sheet

[Jan]

Hello Danny,

I hope that I haven't misunderstood the question but you usually set up the shipping costs in the design/shipping and handling tab. If you pick advanced shipping, you can choose to ship by weight, and set a whole load of prices for shipping based on the weight of the whole order. You then set the weight on each product and Actinic add's it up and charges the appropriate postage for the total order weight.

Cheers.

[littlegems]

Thanks Jan
Thanks for taking the time to reply
Sorry I didnt explain very clearly
I as going to add lines per wieght which is how i sell to trade customers they might buy 4k of amethyst druze at £8.75 a Kg but the pieces mightbe 700g to 1.5Kg a piece so i cannot send exactaly 4kg it might come to 3.8kg at £8.75 a Kg or 4.15Kg at £8.75 a Kg so that is easy when im making a invoice out o a spread sheet but can it be done on Actinic ie can you ship 0.3 of a product or 0.15 of a product I realise i could make a adjustment to te value of a line but it means I would have to work out maybe 20 or 30 lines on the order as to say the differance between 4.15Kg at £8.75 a Kg and what they ordered 4.ooKg at £8.75

[Jan]

I see - I thought that I had the wrong end of the stick - so you an item for sale whose weight changes and you don't know whether it will be in one band or the other until packing . I don't think that Actinic can copy with this.

Regards,

[littlegems]

Thanks Jan
I suspected that was the case
But knew you would know if any one would

[jarroyo]

On a similiar note.... UPS Online

I have close to 1400 products in my catalog which do not have weights. I would like to use my UPS account to link and automatically charge the shipping. I would like to set a default weight, say 1 or 2 pounds so that the UPS online will automatically figure shipping - particularly for international orders rather than just guessing based on price.

I already have shipping from my distributors based on price so I would like to account for that but and do have some products that I have a shipping weight for.

Does this make sense? How can I set a default weight for my products so that UPS Online will work?

[cdicken]

A default weight for your products can be entered in the 'Default Weight in lb.' field in 'Business Settings | Shipping and Handling'. You can then override this default on a product by product basis by entering a value in the 'Weight in lb.' field in the 'General' tab of a product.

Also in 'Business Settings | Shipping and Handling' you can set a 'Default Package Weight' where you can control the maximum size of package you will ship via UPS.

[jarroyo]

Thank you

very much! That helps alot. Now, just to be on the safe side, I have distributors which increment shipping cost by $1 for each $10 of the product price (my cost). I have passed that through to the customer but need to now switch that by weight, make sense?

I am currently guessing at .25, should I go to .50 instead? Any ideas?

For big ticket items, I actually have weights which make things easier but, on books, jewelry, etc. I have set a default of 1 lb and set the base shipping cost.

[cdicken]

Hi

I'm afraid I don't really understand what you are trying to do. Could you give me a couple of concrete examples?

[jarroyo]

Sorry, I'll try to clarify

Most of the products on the site are based on shipping like this:

0-29.99 = 15.95 shipping
30 - 39.99 = 16.95
40-49.99 = 17.95
and so on

I don't mind that but, of course, I cannot set up UPS Online with that model of shipping. That, really, is their problem I guess.

Now, I have a few products that I actually have weights for and would like to be able to adjust for these differences.

I am thinking I might just leave it how it is and add a component with the additional cost of shipping for, say, statues which charges $75 as an adjustment.

[cdicken]

I think the component idea is the best bet.

For products you want to be excluded from UPS, give them zero weight and add on a component for the shipping charge. Then in 'Business Settings | Shipping and Handling' create a 'Free Shipping' band which allows products with no weight to be charged no shipping (you can still create your own custom shipping zones/classes that work alongside UPSs).

Then the shipping charge will purely be from the price of the component.

[littlegems]

Hi all
Just checking before I give up on the invoicing on wieght does any one else know of any way round this problem (see full question at the begining of this thread)
Jan was kind enough to say she thought there was no way around it but i know we were both hoping that there might be a way not know to us

[cdicken]

I'm afraid I have no ideas on this one. The problem is that you do not know how big the item is you are shipping until you actually ship it. Therefore the only way to accurately charge shipping is to add it to the order after it has been placed. Hence the in-built shipping system will not be able to do this for you.

Sorry 'bout that.

[littlegems]

Hi Thanks for that
Off the subject a little I notice on Business you can add a Max purchase for a buyer but can I add a min purchase for my trade/wholsale customers? As in most wholesale trades its common practace of coarce to impose a min order value

[jarroyo]

Kinda

You can set pricing by a minimum purchase, which might do the same thing for you. I have some products which we buy from our distributors which we get in groups, 5, 10, 20 etc. I still sell 1 at a time to customers but, since I cannot afford for a customer to buy 1, I buy 10 and am stuck with 9 of a product, I set prices accordingly to make a profit and encourage purchase of more of different products.