How to add postage costs to a separate product

[cream2cream]

hello, ive just had my site made and cant work out how to set the postage charges for each product being sold.

 

Already been into the shipping section and cant understand how to add different postage costs to a product.

 

Spent last few days trying to work it out,

 

all i see is these headings;

 

• Carriers
  
• States
  
• Countries
  
• Zones
  
• Price ranges
  
• Weight ranges
  

ive managed to create several different price ranges, and think that might have to somehow add the code of each product to the different prices created here??

 

similar to how you add video clips to each product in modules section

 

any advice is very much appreciated, my site is going lve in 2 weeks and need to solve this

 

 

thankyou

[FutureLED]

How are you planning to charge postage, is it by weight or by price?

[cream2cream]

Hello, im planning to charge postage by price, as all of my products (car parts) are different, e.g. engine/ wiring loom/ wheels etc...

 

if someone wants a engine and set of wheels there will be discount in postage as they'll both weigh the same and psotage includes insurance etc...

 

thanks

[FutureLED]

Then you set up Carrier first by going to Shipping>Carriers> Add new, once you have the carrier done you can then set up the Price ranges ,set up the ranges by Shipping>Price Ranges>Add New>Select Carrier and put in prices from-to (these are your sale prices not the postal charge, that will come later) repeat this process until you have covered all the price ranges then go to Shipping>Fees by carrier, geographical zone, and ranges>select the carrier and you can put in your postal charges.

Hope that makes some sense. I know its a bit of work but its worth it in the end.

[cream2cream]

hello ive been trying to figure this out over last few days and still cant sort the shipping charges.

 

When i come to this stage;

 

Select Carrier and put in prices from-to (these are your sale prices not the postal charge,) what ranges should i choose, as i have products from £25 upto £1300, do I have to makes range £25 - £50, £50 - £75 etc...?

 

iv e made one range £25 - £99

 

then when i go on to the next stage;

 

 

Shipping>Fees by carrier, geographical zone, and ranges>select the carrier and you can put in your postal charges.

 

it doesnt seem to have this setting on my one, there is only;

 

 

 

• Carriers
  
• States
  
• Countries
  
• Zones
  
• Price ranges
  
• Weight ranges
  
• 
  
• 
  
• 
  

 

 

also when i select zones only get this option;

 

Back Office >> Shipping >> Zones

 

where do i go from here?

any advice would b much appreciated

thanks

[cream2cream]

hello, ive just figured out how to add the price ranges, but when i choose the default carrier the price ranges dont update in the shopping cart

 

is there another option your meant to select?

 

thanks

 

[Dave L]

I'm just on the way out but wanted to point you the right direction.

 

If you do a search on my posts this has been covered extensively.

 

Just a quick point though. When you click on Shipping>Zones you should be presented with some pre-defined zones. If you are saying you do not have these then there is an error in your installation.

[cream2cream]

hello, there is some pre defined zones in that part, ive even managed to create one myself, but dont really know how it all works yet

 

i'ii have a look in your posts

 

im slowly getting there, but its taking alot longer than expected

 

 

thankyou

[Dave L]

You are welcome.

 

Hopefully clicking HERE will save you a bit of searching.

 

 

im slowly getting there, but its taking alot longer than expected

 

We all have to start somewhere and you'll soon get the hang of it. The shipping is probably the hardest and most confusing parts of prestashop to set up but once it clicks with you it'll be plain sailing.

 

Have a good read and come back with any questions.

[cream2cream]

hello, ive managed to loo through someof the topics but none exactly tell you how to set the shipping up, ive noticed that when i change the handling charges, this is what the shipping costs amount to for every part, be it a window winder or engine

 

Handling

Handling charges:

£ (tax excl.)

[/left]

Free shipping starts at:

£

[/left]

Free shipping starts at:

kg

[/left][/left]

ive managed to set some prices ranges up;

[/left][/left][/left]Fees

Carrier: Bluechip SparesCarrier 3

Zone / Range 25£ to 50£ 51£ to 100£ 101£ to 350£ 351£ to 500£ 501£ to 750£ 751£ to 1200£ UNITED KINGDON £ £ £ £ £ £

but cant seem to apply these to the parts, when you select a alloy wheel, it just adds on the £25 handling charge

 

advice would be very much appreciated

 

thanks

[cream2cream]

ive even changed the default carrier, but it dont make a difference;

 

 

 

 

Carrier options

Carrier optionsDefault carrier:

Bluechip SparesCarrier 3

The default carrier used in shop

[Dave L]

hello, ive managed to loo through someof the topics but none exactly tell you how to set the shipping up, ive noticed that when i change the handling charges, this is what the shipping costs amount to for every part, be it a window winder or engine

 

Handling

Handling charges:

£ (tax excl.)

 

[/left]

 

Free shipping starts at:

£

 

[/left]

 

Free shipping starts at:

kg

 

[/left]

ive managed to set some prices ranges up;

 

[/left]Fees

 

Carrier: Bluechip SparesCarrier 3

Zone / Range 25£ to 50£ 51£ to 100£ 101£ to 350£ 351£ to 500£ 501£ to 750£ 751£ to 1200£ UNITED KINGDON £ £ £ £ £ £

but cant seem to apply these to the parts, when you select a alloy wheel, it just adds on the £25 handling charge

 

advice would be very much appreciated

 

thanks

 

 

The Handling charge is a fixed amount that you wish to add to the shipping cost to cover the costs of handling or perhaps the packaging materials etc.

 

The reason it appears that 'this is what the shipping costs amount to for every part' is because that is the only part of your shipping settings that is currently working.

 

The most likely reason for it not to be working is the error in your Price Ranges which I can see in your recent post. Your Price Range settings have gaps in them.

 

Rather than repeating myself in so many posts may I point you to a very recent ( about 6-hours ago) thread that discusses exactly this. You can find it HERE

 

Once you have corrected this, if your shipping is still not working we can look deeper into the cause of it.

[cream2cream]

hello, ive tried to follow the link above but it dont work, ive changed all the shipping price ranges

 

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/849/shippingranges2.jpg/

 

 

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/823/shippingranges.jpg/

 

and now still nothing, still has the £25 handling charge, ive selected the default carrier and still nothing

[Dave L]

Well one thing is you still have gaps in your price ranges.

 

Lets see if we can get you sorted. Can you describe exactly what you are trying to achieve.

 

You said in your earlier post your shipping will be charged based on price. So how much do you want to charge for each price range for the UK. How much do you want to charge for each price range to Europe.

 

Do you want to allow customers to collect products from you at your physical location (your shop or yard)

 

I notice you set up a new zone for United Kingdom. Did you assign the Country United Kingdom to that new zone?

[cream2cream]

hello, i sell used car parts, so lets say for example, have a throttle body selling for £75 off a lupo gti will post that to mainland uk for £12.50 europe £25, and lets say have a driveshaft selling for £75 (same price) will charge £15 to post that mainland uk, europe £40. So price range wont really work. as sometimes the part prices are the same but will charge more for them due to value/ weight.

 

So it might be better for me to use the weight version?????

 

but i have a deal with dhl and they charge me a flat rate no matter what the weight due to volume of parts i post. obviously dont want to charge customers this price, as we have to factor in insurance/ packaging costs etc..., for example, sending a ecu/ lockset selling for £150 to australia will be like £75 due to value and replacement costs, than sending a alloy wheel selling for £150 which we would charge £35 as its worth alot less.

 

 

I thought would be able to add different postage rates for each part.

 

Im used to selling over ebay; just enter the postage price and off u go, bigtime 300+ parts a month worldwide within a few months of being on there, had enough of there fees & paypal, so had my own site built, with massive demand frm international customers due to quality of cars we break (not scrap or high mileage) , expect 80% of my parts to go abroad as this is our target market.

 

We dont mind people collecting parts, actually prefer it as saves packaging them up. but again 90%+ of customers will want them posted as there located overseas.

 

I only assigned the new zone to united kingdom as was looking at the other chap you replied to who had taken screen shots, mine looked abit bare to his, so quickly added the new zone.

 

thankyou

[Dave L]

I understand now what you are trying to do. Unfortunately, you can't just add stuff because it looks a bit bare and expect it to work. However, you gave me a good laugh so I'll do what I can to help.

 

The best solution would be to try to find a shipping module that will do this the way you want. Unfortunately, I think this would be having to have one built specifically for you. I don't know how much that would cost but you could put a request in to the Paid modules, job offers and paid services area of the forum.

 

The default shipping module cannot be configured in exactly the way you are looking for, but, with some compromise with your pricing structure and being a bit creative there may be a possibility.

 

This would mean you could enter your actual shipping cost for each part but only for the UK. For Europe you would have to decide on a price per kg or a price per 5kg which would be added to your UK shipping cost.

 

For example:

 

Your driveshaft weighs 15kg and is £75. You could add your £12.50 for the UK when you add your driveshaft to your site.

For Europe you have a weight range of for example:

 

0kg - 10kg = £5.00

10kg - 15kg = £ 7.50

15kg - 20kg = £12.50

20kg - 25kg = £ 19.50

 

Which is added to the UK price. These ranges can be anything you want.

 

So a customer from UK orders the drive he would just pay the £12.50 but when the Europe customer orders he would pay the £12.50 UK part plus the £12.50 from the weight range which comes to £25.00

 

Let me know if this is usable or not. If you can use it I'll help you set it up.

[cream2cream]

hello, ur idea seems fantastic, defo would work think, as adding the extra amounts for international buyers, would it work like; example if someone in greece wanted a clio gearbox, the uk delivery would be £65 but for them £200?

 

how long would it take to do?

 

 

so could just add extra £135 but what i learnt over ebay is that 99% of international buyers like to email asking extra questions which is why ive got a live chat feature ont he website, and very rarely do they want to just buy the one part, i advertised a engne frm a 172 clio and bulgarian chap ended up buying the complete running gear (gbox/ wiring loom/ axle/ complete engine/ suspension) from the vehicle, which we palleted for him and listed on a seperate auction

 

let me know

 

thankyou

[Dave L]

Well it would work but as mentioned you would need to define a few things first.

 

Weight ranges - How do you want your weight ranges set up,

 

0 - 5kg, 5 - 10kg, 10 - 15 kg, 15 - 20kg, etc............

or

0 - 10kg, 10 - 20-kg, 20 - 30kg, 30 - 40kg, etc.......

 

So you need to decide.

 

Then, you need to decide how much you will charge for each of those ranges per zone,

 

Remember, these prices will be added to your UK shipping cost to make up the total shipping cost.

 

So what weight ranges and prices per weight range do you want to use?

[cream2cream]

hello, what i can do is have the weight ranges

 

0 - 5kg, 5 - 10kg, 10 - 15 kg, 15 - 20kg,

 

going up in 5's then add prices starting at £15 and going up in £10's

 

so

 

0-5kg (£15), 5-10kg (£25), 10-15kg (£35) 15- 20kg (£45) so if want to add extra charge for shipping to australia

of a driveshaft for example, uk delivery would be £12.50 then australia £50approx, so could select it to go in the 15-20kg range

 

what do you think? or should i have the prices going up in 5's?

 

like 0-5kg (£15), 5-10kg (£20), 10-15kg (£25), 15-20kg (£30)

 

also i noted you said my prices ranges still had gaps in, well ive gone through them again, and cant see any gaps, as ive gone to the next 1p e.g. 24.99 to 25 or 450.00 to 450.99 ;

 

 

0£ to 24.99£ 25£ to 50.99£ 51£ to 100.99£ 101£ to 150.99£ 151£ to 200.99£ 201£ to 250.99£ 251£ to 300.99£ 301£ to 350.99£ 351£ to 400.99£ 401£ to 450.99£ 451£ to 500.99£ 501£ to 550.99£ 551£ to 600.99£ 601£ to 650.99£

651£ to 700.99£ 701£ to 750.99£ 751£ to 800.99£ 801£ to 850.99£ 851£ to 900.99£ 901£ to 950.99£ 951£ to 1000.99£ 1001£ to 1100.99£ 1101£ to 1200.99£ 1201£ to 1300.99£ 1301£ to 1400.99£ 1401£ to 1500.99£ 1501£ to 1600.99£ 1601£ to 1700.99£

1701£ to 1800.99£

 

 

 

thankyou

[Dave L]

0-5kg (£15), 5-10kg (£25), 10-15kg (£35) 15- 20kg (£45) so if want to add extra charge for shipping to australia

of a driveshaft for example, uk delivery would be £12.50 then australia £50approx, so could select it to go in the 15-20kg range

 

like 0-5kg (£15), 5-10kg (£20), 10-15kg (£25), 15-20kg (£30)

 

That's the general idea but you would also have to give the weight that falls into that range too. So when you put the driveshaft in you would set it's weight to say 18kg.

Then your shipping for Australia would be £12.50 = £45 = £57.50.

 

You would use the same weight ranges for other zones as well but the price for that range may be different.

 

For example you might have this for North America

 

0-5kg (£12.50), 5-10kg (£28.50), 10-15kg (£38.50) 15- 20kg (£48.50)

 

Then the same driveshaft going to USA would be £12.50 + £48.50 = £61.00

 

Remember, each product will have to have a weight when you add it to your catalogue in prestashop.

 

Do you think this would still work for you?

[Mike Spike]

Hi, I think I could help

I also sell many different items, each are different size, different weight, different price etc. so I can not use the price or weight ranges!

The good news is that prestashop 1.4.5.1. has an option called 'additional cost'; just put your postage costs there.

If you set your postage for items between 0-100000kg to 0p (i.e. free shipping), then select to charge postage by weight.

 

I had the additional complication of creating different postage costs for different countries... all done now..

Good luck!

Mike - DovJudaica.com

[Dave L]

Hi, I think I could help

I also sell many different items, each are different size, different weight, different price etc. so I can not use the price or weight ranges!

The good news is that prestashop 1.4.5.1. has an option called 'additional cost'; just put your postage costs there.

If you set your postage for items between 0-100000kg to 0p (i.e. free shipping), then select to charge postage by weight.

 

I had the additional complication of creating different postage costs for different countries... all done now..

Good luck!

Mike - DovJudaica.com

 

Hi Mike.

 

I am working with the OP with exactly that. Using the additional cost but like you, he has different rates for different countries.

 

I'd be very interested in learning more about your solution for this.

 

Thanks.

[cream2cream]

 

That's the general idea but you would also have to give the weight that falls into that range too. So when you put the driveshaft in you would set it's weight to say 18kg.

Then your shipping for Australia would be £12.50 = £45 = £57.50.

 

You would use the same weight ranges for other zones as well but the price for that range may be different.

 

For example you might have this for North America

 

0-5kg (£12.50), 5-10kg (£28.50), 10-15kg (£38.50) 15- 20kg (£48.50)

 

Then the same driveshaft going to USA would be £12.50 + £48.50 = £61.00

 

Remember, each product will have to have a weight when you add it to your catalogue in prestashop.

 

Do you think this would still work for you?

 

 

Hello, think we have a break through here

 

your method is perfect, i quickly added some weight ranges;

 

Zone / Range 0kg to 5kg 5kg to 10kg 10kg to 15kg 15kg to 20kg 20kg to 25kg 25kg to 30kg 30kg to 35kg 35kg to 40kg 40kg to 45kg 45kg to 50kg 50kg to 55kg 55kg to 60kg 60kg to 65kg 65kg to 70kg 70kg to 75kg 75kg to 80kg 80kg to 85kg 85kg to 90kg 90kg to 95kg 95kg to 100kg Africa £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ Asia £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ Europe £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ Oceania £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ UNITED KINGDON £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ US £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £

 

then changed the weight range on a part and guess what, added that to the shopping cart and it came up with the postage charge! In this case (£25 handling charge) + the £11 i added for the weight!

 

great, im sure its not this simple? do you think my weight rages are fine?

 

would i need to adjust the price ranges or leave them?

thanks

[cream2cream]

Hi, I think I could help

I also sell many different items, each are different size, different weight, different price etc. so I can not use the price or weight ranges!

The good news is that prestashop 1.4.5.1. has an option called 'additional cost'; just put your postage costs there.

If you set your postage for items between 0-100000kg to 0p (i.e. free shipping), then select to charge postage by weight.

 

I had the additional complication of creating different postage costs for different countries... all done now..

Good luck!

Mike - DovJudaica.com

 

hello, yes im defo in the same situation as you, i dismantle cars and there are loads and loads of poarts, some priced the same but weigh a different amount or worth more so have to factor in insurance costs, i could change a certain weight to reflect the cost of postage/ insurance and apply that to a individual item, do u have examples of what u did?

 

think your method might just work for me, didnt set the postage to 0p but £11 and it worked out the shipping charge + the handling charge of £25 which came to £36

 

thankyou

[Dave L]

 

 

Hello, think we have a break through here

 

your method is perfect, i quickly added some weight ranges;

 

Zone / Range 0kg to 5kg 5kg to 10kg 10kg to 15kg 15kg to 20kg 20kg to 25kg 25kg to 30kg 30kg to 35kg 35kg to 40kg 40kg to 45kg 45kg to 50kg 50kg to 55kg 55kg to 60kg 60kg to 65kg 65kg to 70kg 70kg to 75kg 75kg to 80kg 80kg to 85kg 85kg to 90kg 90kg to 95kg 95kg to 100kg Africa £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ Asia £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ Europe £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ Oceania £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ UNITED KINGDON £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ US £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £

 

then changed the weight range on a part and guess what, added that to the shopping cart and it came up with the postage charge! In this case (£25 handling charge) + the £11 i added for the weight!

 

great, im sure its not this simple? do you think my weight rages are fine?

 

would i need to adjust the price ranges or leave them?

thanks

 

That's good.

The only thing is if you use the Handling charge option it will add that value to all your shipping rates. So it's best not to use it for this.

 

No, no need to adjust the price ranges for this option.

 

So, all you need to do now is:

 

Add weights to all your products (just do a few for now for testing).

Add your UK shipping cost to each product in the additional shipping cost field.

Create your weight ranges (you have already done that).

Edit the Carrier that you set the weight ranges for check the boxes for all the zones you want to deliver to.

Click on Shipping tab and down at the bottom you will see the Fees by Carrier. Select your carrier from the list and a matrix will appear showing each weight range and each zone. Fill out this matrix with the shipping price for each. Remember, this will be added to the price you put in the additional shipping cost for your product.

 

That should be about it. Go test it to see if it works.

[cream2cream]

Hello, im back been busy sorting out some racking in warehouse anyway ive added a few shipping costs to the products and it seems to be working fine

 

also what do you think of my company logo;

 

www.bluechipspares.co.uk, maybe i should post this in another section

 

anyway thankyou very much for your assistance without it i was nearly on the verge of giving up and going back to ebay selling

[Dave L]

Pleased it's working for you.

 

Unfortunately couldn't check out your logo as your site isn't enabled.

[cream2cream]

Hello, im thinking is it possible to change the name of the different weight ranges, to the names of parts, for example, engine block/ exhaust/ wheels/ gearbox?

 

It would make my life alot easier as i would just need to add the specific part to the same weight name range across all the zones

 

 

 

 

Uploaded with ImageShack.us

[cream2cream]

hello, my logo is on the fronpage

 

here it is;

 

 

 

 

Uploaded with ImageShack.us

[Dave L]

Ah, OK.

 

Yes, it look smart. Very professional.

 

Regarding renaming the weight ranges I have no idea how you could do the. Maybe someone will be along with a suggestion.

 

Cheers.

[cream2cream]

thankyou for your comments, believe it or not its taken nearly 8months to get my site looking the way it is now

 

changing the weight names would be fantastic as it'll make my life 100 x easier

 

also do you know if its possible to upload more than one picture at a time? as i have around 400+ for each car, for example will take around 20 pic's of the engine block, and thats pressing upload button 20x!!!

 

would want them to upload like you can on the photobucket website, highlight as 10+ pictures and upload them in one go??

 

is this possible with prestashop?

 

thankyou