Flexible shipping charges based on product type?

[getvegadmin]

I'm wondering if there's any way in setting up shipping and handling charges based on the product type?



For example, instead of defining shipping charges based on country of origin and destination and product weight, I'd just like to set this up as product #1, US shipping $5, international shipping $10, etc. for each product.



Also I'd like to offer free shipping on when/if the buyer decides to buy more than certain amount of products. Is this possible to set up?



Thank you!

[E-junkie_Guru]

First, this help page explains our shipping calculation settings:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.shipping.htm



You could just set up a shipping rule for United States using the "Price per unit weight" method and set the rate for that to 1.00, so then you could configure Shipping Options for each product with a Weight equal to the per-unit shipping cost -- e.g., if you set a rate of 1.00, then a product with a unit weight of 5.00 would add 5.00 (= 1.00 X 5.00) to the cart's shipping charges.



If you want to charge more for International shipments, you could set up that rule for All Countries with a "Price per unit weight" rate as a multiple of the domestic rate -- e.g., if you set this rate as 1.50, Int'l shipping charges would be 50% higher than domestic, or 2.00 would double the domestic charges, etc.



While you can define shipping rules with min/max item quantity thresholds, if you simply want all orders for at least X number of items to have free shipping, it would probably be easier to just create an automatic (no code) Discount for All Cart Items that takes 100% off the Shipping total when Min. Item Qty. = X.

[getvegadmin]

Great advice. Thanks.



One questions though. How about if I'd like to have a free shipping on certain products to the US, but charge the shipping to it for International orders? Is there any way that can be done?

[E-junkie_Ninja]

If you use the information Tyson provide and setup a price per unit weight option, then you could setup some of your products with a weight of 0 and those products should calculate no shipping cost. However, you would then need to use an option other then price per unit weight to setup shipping for international orders for the same products

[getvegadmin]

Thanks for your further help. Unfortunately I'm not really sure how to set this up according to what you suggest without breaking my other settings for shipping on all other products, which I would wish to keep as it is (price per unit weight). Any ideas or samples you could direct me too? Thanks.

[E-junkie_Monster]

That is the difficulty in trying to use shipping rules to apply on a per product basis. A better strategy for applying shipping costs on a per-item basis would be to use packaging costs instead of shipping rules.



If you want to charge different rates for domestic versus international, set that difference with shipping rules.



If certain products need to add an additional charge above that, use packaging costs to apply the extra cost.



We can offer you more specific instructions on how to set your shipping, but we need to know -everything- about your shipping costs, including your existing ones, so that we can tailor the instructions to take all of your needs into account. If you could please let us know the costs you want to set in all circumstances either here in the forum or by emailing us at support@e-junkie.com we will get back to you with further advice or recommendations.

[getvegadmin]

Thanks. I've sen you an email to support - shipping. I much appreciate your further assistance on this!