I thought you might like to know how I work out my shipping charges.
I sell really odd shaped/weighted stuff that just doesn’t work using the regular shipping method of entering the items weight. So instead I set up shipping bands and each product uses a shipping band rather than its actual weight.
In the ‘Shipping & Handling’ section I used the following figures.
Default weight 0.0001
ROW 1 = .09 Cost, £1.69
ROW 2 = 9.99 Cost, £3.39
ROW 3 = 999.00 Cost, £5.94
ROW 4 = 9999.00 Cost, £9.35
ROW 5 = 99999.00 Cost, £17.01
And then for each product I use the following figures in the items weight.
CLASS 1 = 0.0001 (£1.69 GROUP)
CLASS 2 = 0.10 (£3.39 GROUP)
CLASS 3 = 10.00 (£5.94 GROUP)
CLASS 4 = 1000.00 (£9.35 GROUP)
CLASS 5 = 10000.00 (£17.01 GROUP)
A customer can order multiple items of the same thing and the shipping charge remains the same for that product type. If they order another item that has a higher shipping cost it knocks it up to the next level.
I have been using this method for about a year and it works really well for my product type. The only problem is when a customer orders a lot of stuff of one product type that occasionally we loose out on shipping. But because they ordered a lot of stuff we can accommodate that anyway.
Don’t know if this is of use to any one, but it works for me.
I sell really odd shaped/weighted stuff that just doesn’t work using the regular shipping method of entering the items weight. So instead I set up shipping bands and each product uses a shipping band rather than its actual weight.
In the ‘Shipping & Handling’ section I used the following figures.
Default weight 0.0001
ROW 1 = .09 Cost, £1.69
ROW 2 = 9.99 Cost, £3.39
ROW 3 = 999.00 Cost, £5.94
ROW 4 = 9999.00 Cost, £9.35
ROW 5 = 99999.00 Cost, £17.01
And then for each product I use the following figures in the items weight.
CLASS 1 = 0.0001 (£1.69 GROUP)
CLASS 2 = 0.10 (£3.39 GROUP)
CLASS 3 = 10.00 (£5.94 GROUP)
CLASS 4 = 1000.00 (£9.35 GROUP)
CLASS 5 = 10000.00 (£17.01 GROUP)
A customer can order multiple items of the same thing and the shipping charge remains the same for that product type. If they order another item that has a higher shipping cost it knocks it up to the next level.
I have been using this method for about a year and it works really well for my product type. The only problem is when a customer orders a lot of stuff of one product type that occasionally we loose out on shipping. But because they ordered a lot of stuff we can accommodate that anyway.
Don’t know if this is of use to any one, but it works for me.