Priority Mail, Anyone?

[shopgirl]

Does anyone use Priority Mail? How do you set up your shipping?



I've been trying to do the "case c" method, but it's not adding any shipping at all.



Basically, anything you ship from 0-16 oz costs $4.60, so I know how much my products weigh, and I'm trying to set it up based on the item count. So, 0-10 items cost $4.60, 10-20 cost $9.20, etc.



I'm using variants for my items - does this make a difference in setting up the shipping?

[matty]

We use USPS priority. The only catch here is that over $100.00, we give free shipping. so it works out.



With each individual item you must:

We set our item weight to 0.00, make the box size small, and the packaging capacity 100,000.



Then in shipping options:

we set the small box to 1.0 ounce, and then price in a set amount for international and priority, with a $2.05 shipping charge.



Shipping calculations is a headache, you may just want to email e-junkie directly and continuously until they give you a complete answer :).

[robbie]

We sell educational rap CDs and I have found that the following setup works:



- Priority Mail will take anything up to four pounds at a rate of $4.95 using the convenient small boxes.

- Each small box holds up to four CD cases. This is handy because our "box set" currently comprises of four CDs.



So, each individual CD item is set to:

- 0.00 ounces

- Small Box

- Maximum of four per container

(Some people will order one each of two different CDs, and that works out well.)



Each Box Set item is set to:

- 0.00 ounces

- Small Box

- Maximum of one per container



Shipping settings are:

- Small box: $4.95

- Handling: $[xx]



Using these settings, any combination of CDs up to four will get a $4.95 shipping charge + handling. Any combination between 5-8 CDs is $9.90 + handling, and so on. Technically once we are above four CDs it's slightly cheaper to send it at a calculated rate, but e-junkie just isn't sophisticated enough to handle that yet.

[E-junkie_Guru]

@Robbie:



Just curious, are your "individual CD" products actually defined as Variants/Variations of a single product in E-junkie Admin?



If not, so if they are separate products, your calculation would actually add the cost of a Small Box for each different CD product ordered. Defining a Tube container type instead of a Box would be able to combine different products into a common container for calculation purposes. :^)

[robbie]

@Tyson:



Thanks for checking in!



The CDs are indeed separate products. I just checked and it does not add an additional box cost for different CDs as part of the same order. If I order one science CD and one math CD, the total shipping cost is still just $4.95 + handling.



Feel free to check it out and see if I am missing something:

http://www.educationalrap.com/purchase



If it's a bug that should not be letting it function that way, perhaps I switch everything over to a single product with variants...