Individual Shipping Costs

[BenC]

Hi, I was wondering if there is any way to change my shipping which is based on weight so that each items shipping cost is added up and given as a total on checkout.

 

ie: at the moment item 1 and 2 have weights 1 and 2. These might be £5 and £10 however weight 3 could be £2.50 so when 1 and 2 are added up it falls short.

Is there any way I could have it add cost 1 and 2 up to equal the total amount (£15) instead of the amount of weight 3

 

Thanks

Ben

[stottycabanas]

Hi Ben, did you mean £12.50 for weight 3 (which I take to be the sum of weight 1 and weight 2)?  Otherwise it doesn't sound very logical.

So you want to charge a standard shipping cost for each product purchased, irrespective of how many you buy of that or any other product?  E.g. if I buy 5 x Item 1 and 2 x Item 2 in the same order, you want the shipping cost to be (5 x £5) + (2 x £10) = £45.

If the actual cost to you of the shipping is a lot less than that, customers may pick up on that and may look elsewhere.

If you do want to do that, you could abandon the use of weights altogether. In the Shipping tab for each product in back office, set the weight to 0 and then populate the Additional shipping cost (per quantity).

Cheers, Dave

[BenC]

Hi Dave,

 

Yes standard shipping. So that product a, b and c have £5 each shipping so the total would be £15 instead of weight shipping at the moment so a + b + c = another weight which might be more expensive or less than the £15 that is correct.

 

So if I abandon the weight shipping and use the additional cost it should be fine?

[stottycabanas]

I believe so, but I recommend you try this out in a test store and make sure it meets your requirements.

Cheers, Dave