How to apply shipping

[jebdickerson]

Hey all, I have multiple shipping rules as some products cost more to ship. I'm having trouble figuring out how to apply specific flat rate rules I've created to a product. In other words, I want product 1 to ship according to rule 1, product 2 to ship according to rule 2, etc.



I know I have to check the box that says 'shipping/buyers addy', which then opens the 'shipping options' page after a couple screens, but that's where I get stuck. The three options - wight, pkg type and pkg capacity - don't seem to be relevant to the flat rate shipping rules I've created. I assume there must be a way to apply different rules to different products, just cant seem to figure it out.



Help would be appreciated. Thanks...Jeb

[E-junkie_Monster]

Shipping Rules generally apply to different charges for different locations or shipping methods. Applying them to distinct products is tricky--shipping rules can be applied to overall weight of items in the cart or charge a flat rate per ounce or gram but that might not cover what you are looking for.



If you need to charge shipping on a per-product basis I recommend scrapping your Shipping Rules and enter costs based on packaging. For example, if an item is expensive to ship, put it in a larger box/envelope/tube and attach a higher cost to that packing material. This does not have to correspond to the actual packaging material you use and won't display to your buyers at all, but it does give you a way to associate specific costs with specific products.

[jebdickerson]

ok, that sounds pretty good. any chance you have some simple instructions as to how to do costs per type of pkg? and can you set a certain product to ship in a certain pkg? or is it still something the buyer will have to choose?



thanks so much for your help...Jeb

[E-junkie_Guru]

First go into your Seller Admin > Cart Shipping Settings screen. There, you can enter a Cost for various packaging types. Once you've set up a range of costs, click Next to save changes and proceed to the Shipping Rules screen. If you have anything listed in the Existing Shipping Rules menu, select and delete them, then click Back to Admin.



When you enable Shipping/Buyer's Address in a product's settings, click Next until you reach the Shipping Options screen, where you can specify the packaging type that product ships in and how many units of that product will fit in that type of package (i.e., how many units can be shipped together for the same shipping Cost that you assigned to that package type). Then click Next until you can click Submit to save changes.



There's also another, perhaps easier, way you could go about this, if you simply want to set a flat shipping charge for each unit of each product. Instead of defining Costs for various packaging types, you'd leave all the settings blank or 0.00 on that first Cart Shipping Settings screen, then click Next, and create one Shipping Rule using "Price per unit weight" with a rate of 1.00. Then when you enable Shipping for each product, you'd simply set its Weight to equal the flat-rate that each unit of that product should cost to ship.