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    Hello,

    Scratching my head on this one. Have tried a couple of things and felt I was getting close when playing with shipping categories - but still falling at the final hurdle...

    Here is what we have:-

    Shop sells largish items, and we charge a single cost (£14.69) per item shipped up to a qty of 4. When 5 or more are ordered, the shipping is charged at a pallet rate. So this is what I have in the shipping table

    Quantity Based
    1 = £14.69
    2 = £29.38
    3 = £44.07
    4 = £58.76
    500 = £62.92 ( pallet rate )

    That is all fine and works exactly as we want. The problem comes from just one product. It is a remote controller and quite small. £14.69 is an excessive charge and We would like this item to be charged at £4.95 per controller shipped.

    In the case where a shopper selects 4 normal products AND a controller - we do not want the pallet rate to be triggered.

    Following some advice in the v9 starter guide, I created a new shipping category called 'controller', and gave this a 'per item charge' of £4.95

    I then set the controller product to have the Shipping Category of 'Controller' and ticked the box marked 'Ship separately'

    I have uploaded to test and found that...

    a) When the controller is ordered on it's own - the shipping is £4.95 ( correct )
    b) When the controller is ordered in multiples - the shipping if £4.95 multiplied by the number ordered ( correct )
    c) When normal products are ordered - the original shipping rules are lost and no shipping charge is made
    d) When normal products are ordered AND a controller is added to the basket - Actinic chooses only to charge the controller shipping.

    Since starting to write this thread, I have spotted that the new class I added has a 'default' item in the table which was set to zero, I have added a 'per item' charge of £14.69 for the default shipping category which does now seem to do what we want - until we get to a quantity greater than 4 on the default category items. We do not get the pallet rate triggered.

    Does anyone know if it is possible to retain the original quantity based shipping rules ( with our pallet rate ) and run them along with the lower cost shipping for the controller product?

    Any pointers gratefully received

    -Alec
    Alec Moss
    Business Webpage Ltd
    Web Design
    Starter Websites

    #2
    Personally I'd do this by weight (nearly always the most usable option).

    - Give each product a 'weight' of 1.00 by default.
    - Give the controller a weight of 0.01
    - Set the shipping tables accordingly (they'll be largish as you need to set out each of the options depending on how many controllers you want to charge seperate shipping for).

    Mike
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