Another Shipping Scenario

[BilstonBob]

Hi

I have a shipping scenario that I cannot set-up in Actinic.

1. All shipping is to the UK
2. Most products are free
3. Product Group ‘A’ receives a one off £6 charge regardless of the volume ordered
4. Product Group ‘B’ receives a separate £6 charge regardless of the volume ordered
5. The maximum possible charge is £12 by ordering products from Group A & B.
6. If the order value (excluding Product Group A) exceeds £40 then shipping is free, though the £6 charge for Product Group B still applies.

I can achieve everything here, using Actinic’s weight based shipping, but I cannot incorporate point 4 and 5 into the calculations. I should also say the product catalogue contains 20,000+ products, so adding components as a work around is out of the question at this stage.

Any help appreciated.

Anthony

[Bruce]

What if you have very high weights for the products in group 'B' say 1000 Kg +. Products in group 'A' get normal weights that say dont exceed 10 Kg, you can then have 2 rows in the shipping table that says...
10.00 ...........6.00
1000.00.......12.00

The free over however, is a global value, so you will have to play around to work that one out.

Kind regards,

[BilstonBob]

Thanks for your suggestion Bruce.

I don't think this will work because customers will sometimes order products in different combinations e.g.

Group A = £6.00 standard charge and free for orders totaling £40+
Group B = £6.00 standard charge regardless of quantity ordered
Group A + B = £12.00 standard charge.

All other products are free of charge. So I think what I really need is the ability to group products into standard sets of carriage charges, which I'm really not sure the weight based system can handle?!

Anthony

[Bruce]

Anthony,

This will have to be added to the wish list I am afraid. The current architecture does not allow for this to be done.

Kind regards,