First, you may find it helpful to know the basic formula we follow when calculating shipping charges:



((cost per oz.) X (total product wt. + container wt.)) + (container cost) + (handling cost)



The (cost per oz.) part would be determined either by a flat per-oz. rate you specify for Domestic or International shipping, or otherwise by standard USPS rates (we lookup First Class vs. Priority Mail and apply whichever is cheaper). Note that you can "game" the formula by applying non-literal figures for various settings, so the formula adds up the way you want.



For what you descirbe, I would suggest the following:



Go into your E-junkie Seller Admin > Cart Shipping Settings, delete your zipcode (this completely disables USPS postal rate lookups) and set your Handling and Domestic rate to 0.00, and set your International rate to 1.00.



Then pick two or three container types -- say, the Small/Medium/Large Boxes -- and set their Cost equal to your two or three Domestic flat rates (e.g. a Small Box would Cost your Domestic fee for a cassette, Medium for CD, Large for Vinyl). Then set their Weight as the difference between Domestic vs. International for each of those rate levels. E.g. if you'd charge 3.00 Domestic vs. 7.00 International for a CD, set the Medium Box with a 3.00 Cost and a 4.00 Weight. Then simply Edit each of your products so they are set to ship in the appropriate Package Type with a product weight of 0.00.

TastySoilSorry to bug you again, i'm kind of following you up untill the point where you are explaining how to set the price:

Tysonset the Medium Box with a 3.00 Cost and a 4.00 Weight. Then simply Edit each of your products so they are set to ship in the appropriate Package Type with a product weight of 0.00.

I'm not sure if this is possible, but here is a breakdown of how my friend has his shipping set, if there is any way to have this automatically happen through your service i'd be a customer for life..



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Now, i know there are 4 variables here (USA, CANADA, MEXICO, WORLD) so if that is too much for the cart to figure out i could narrow it down to have canada/mexico lumped in together.

Another question, is the shipping preference automatically chosen just by where the customer has their paypal address set up at? They don't have to manually choose anything do they?

Not quite sure I follow what you mean here, but if you're referring to the destination address, that is provided during Checkout. For PayPal this would typically be whatever default or Verified address they have saved in their PayPal account unless they manually choose to specify a different address.

Yes, your site needs to be live and online, and tested in a regular Web browser in order for the cart to work properly. You can publish your site and simply not tell anyone about it if you're still testing things. :^)



To test International shipping you may need to enter something in the ZIP/Postal Code field; entering anything there should work, as I don't think we can validate for accuracy there.

It's not exactly what you describe, but maybe you can get this to work for you:



Our Tube container types were programmed with selling posters in mind, so if someone ordered some small posters that ship in a Small Tube and some larger posters that ship in a Large Tube, it made sense to just ship them all together in a Large Tube. You can take advantage of this technicality, even if you're not literally shipping in actual tubes, to combine different types of product into a single container for the sake of calculation purposes. Items which are configured to ship in any Tube container type can consolidate into the largest such container specified for any item in the order, up to the max. packing capacity specified for that item.



For instance, suppose you you can pack up to, say, 4 LPs in a single parcel, but if less than 4 are ordered, you can fit at least that many cassettes or CDs into the unused space. We would then configure every LP product to ship in a Large Tube with a packing capacity of 4. CDs might be configured in a Regular Tube, cassettes in a Small Tube -- of course you would set up all your Tube container types instead of Box types with the cost/weight settings described earlier. If an order comes in for 1 LP, 2 CDs and 1 cassette, the LP's "Large Tube" container still has 3 empty "slots" (since we gave LPs a packing capacity of 4 in this example), so the 2 CDs and 1 cassette that are configured to ship in smaller Tube types can occupy those 3 unused spaces.

Regarding the Shipping postal code, we enter "none" for countries which we are certain do not use postal codes; buyers in other countries should know what their own postal code is and enter that accordingly.



The error saying "This product combination does not exist" would bear no relation to Shipping-related settings. It's usually due to an inaccurate Item Number in the button code or a missing Variants combination (which latter you aren't using, so that's irrelevant in your case). If you copy and paste the button code we provide for a product, and then subsequently change the product's Item Number, that breaks the old button code that referenced the original number. Looking at the Item Number pattern for your other items, I guessed that product should have the number TS-002 instead of TS002 which the button code has, and it looks like adding the dash would make it work. You can recopy and repaste the current button code for that product, but really you just need to edit the button code in your page, so the button URL for that product has TS-002 instead of TS002.

The total Shipping amount we can pass to PayPal gets labeled in their receipt/records as a "Handling" charge, as they don't provide any way for us to pass an amount that would get labeled as "Shipping". Any "Shipping" amount you see there is being added by settings in your PayPal account, not coming from us.

Hi, I have two questions.



1) under create new shipping rules is Min. Item Total field the total number of items or the total charge amount? And if I leave these at "0" are they ignored like the Max fields?



2) I need to set up shipping based on this matrix: http://www.eoutletcards.com/wp-content/themes/revival/images/ShippingWeight.pdf



I would like to be able to send UPS Ground, UPS 2nd Day, UPS Overnight. I have configure the system several ways and have not been able to get it to come close to the rates if I go on UPS.com so I must be doing something wrong or its not possible to do it.



Can you point me in the right direction.



Thanks

1) "Min./Max. Item Total" refers to the order's price subtotal, before any tax/shipping are added. "Min./Max. Items in Cart" refers to the total quantity of units for all items in the order. Any settings left blank or set to "0" would be ignored.



2) I don't understand how the matrix you linked relates to shipping charges? If you just set up your products with accurate weights in Ounces, then we can do a live rate-lookup for UPS Ground, but we currently have no way to lookup any other UPS rates nor any FedEx rates.

We pre weighed the boxes and the amounts of cards that would fit into them and that is the matrix I am trying to follow.



There is enough spread that I dont have to worry about the cost of the package so I left those fields blank. At the individual product setting on the 100 Bundle pack product for example...I took the 2lb package that holds 25 gift cards and divided them out to get 1.28 ounces each. I then chose large tube and set my packaging capacity to 250 which is the highest amount of cards that would fit into a large container.



On the rate calculator section I choose UPS ground and compared with a live ups ground quote to say Washington state from the mailed from zip in Fl and the rates are off by about 75 cents on a 2.b box and then I tried comparing a 250 card order (13 lbs) and the cart is charging 21.79 and UPS.com says 15.35



Why are these rates so different?



If I build my shipping matrix out figuring how much each box will cost via UPS.com for ground, overnight, 2nd day what is the best way to game the system so I can get closer to my actually cost? Not sure what settings to choose in the calculator....price per weight, per unit.....etc?



Thanks

The UPS Ground rates we can lookup would be for delivery to a Residential address, rather than Commercial, so that may explain the difference you were seeing.



Bear in mind that the Packaging Capacity you define in the settings of each product would determine how many separate parcels we'd be telling UPS are in the shipment, so that may affect the rate (e.g. 2 parcels weighing 30 oz. each may cost more than 1 parcel weighing 60 oz.).



"Price per unit weight" refers to a per-ounce shipping rate that would be multiplied by the total weight of each order, and "Price per unit" means a per-item rate that would be multiplied by the number of items in each order.