https://forum.productcart.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:44:46 +0000 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:47:24 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 https://forum.productcart.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=1837 https://forum.productcart.com/forum_images/pc_logo_50.png https://forum.productcart.com/ https://forum.productcart.com/set-shipping-amount-per-item_topic1837_post8315.html#8315 Author: Jask
Subject: 1837
Posted: 14-January-2009 at 4:47am

Hamish wrote: Hi,    Can you provide more detail about what you would like to achieve. What should you want to happen if someone purchases a combination of items or multiple of the same item, do you just want to multiply / add them. I suspect from what you are saying the closest is :- Incremental calculation based on order quantity. Example: charge $5.00 for the first item, then an additional $1 on the next 9 items, then $0.50 on all items over 9. If the order contained 22 units, shipping would be calculated as follows: ($5 + ($1*9) + (.50*12))=$20.00.

Hi Hamish

this is exactly what we want it to do - is this possible?

thanks

Matt
]]> Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:47:24 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/set-shipping-amount-per-item_topic1837_post8315.html#8315 https://forum.productcart.com/set-shipping-amount-per-item_topic1837_post8270.html#8270 Author: Hamish
Subject: 1837
Posted: 12-January-2009 at 11:42am

Hi,
   At the moment ProductCart does not support this, but it the ability to do so is a request that does come up so it's been added to the internal request system.

There are a whole set of issues around shipping and it's one of the most complex areas for e-commerce stores. Offering a flatshipping rate by product, although seemingly the simple option can inmany cases lead to anomalies. For example actual shipping costs are rarely linear and sending 5 of the same item, or a combination of items, is much cheaper than sending just one and a flat amount per product does not reflect this.
To get this working as a flat rate per item will require some custom coding and there are several people active on the forum that are more than capable of completing this work
 ]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:42:21 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/set-shipping-amount-per-item_topic1837_post8270.html#8270 https://forum.productcart.com/set-shipping-amount-per-item_topic1837_post8251.html#8251 Author: bluedella
Subject: 1837
Posted: 11-January-2009 at 4:19pm

I would like to be able to go into each product and input the shipping cost]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:19:51 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/set-shipping-amount-per-item_topic1837_post8251.html#8251 https://forum.productcart.com/set-shipping-amount-per-item_topic1837_post8246.html#8246 Author: Hamish
Subject: 1837
Posted: 11-January-2009 at 11:08am

Hi,
   Can you provide more detail about what you would like to achieve.
What should you want to happen if someone purchases a combination of items or multiple of the same item, do you just want to multiply / add them.
I suspect from what you are saying the closest is :-

Incremental calculation based on order quantity.
Example: charge $5.00 for the first item, then an additional $1 on the next 9 items, then $0.50 on all items over 9. If the order contained 22 units, shipping would be calculated as follows: ($5 + ($1*9) + (.50*12))=$20.00.



]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:08:36 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/set-shipping-amount-per-item_topic1837_post8246.html#8246 https://forum.productcart.com/set-shipping-amount-per-item_topic1837_post8245.html#8245 Author: bluedella
Subject: 1837
Posted: 10-January-2009 at 10:40pm

bump]]> Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:40:53 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/set-shipping-amount-per-item_topic1837_post8245.html#8245 https://forum.productcart.com/set-shipping-amount-per-item_topic1837_post6125.html#6125 Author: bluedella
Subject: 1837
Posted: 21-July-2008 at 4:17pm

would anybody be able to help me out--we drop ship alot of our items and need a way to add shipping cost per item then have the software add it up and present the client with the total shipping price---

or a way to add a handling fee and have a total fee at checkout--(I would turn shipping off
]]> Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:17:02 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/set-shipping-amount-per-item_topic1837_post6125.html#6125 https://forum.productcart.com/set-shipping-amount-per-item_topic1837_post6124.html#6124 Author: Hamish
Subject: 1837
Posted: 21-July-2008 at 3:39pm

Hi Alan,
    That's what I meant by "differentiating your store" - Just my odd way of putting the point :-)  Many potential customers are very sensitive to shipping prices.  I for one, will always try and check shipping rates or at least policies on shipping rates.

 
     
]]> Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:39:57 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/set-shipping-amount-per-item_topic1837_post6124.html#6124 https://forum.productcart.com/set-shipping-amount-per-item_topic1837_post6123.html#6123 Author: katharina
Subject: 1837
Posted: 21-July-2008 at 3:26pm

I understand, but it seems to take forever........
Any idea when the new release is coming out? 
Katharina
]]> Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:26:32 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/set-shipping-amount-per-item_topic1837_post6123.html#6123 https://forum.productcart.com/set-shipping-amount-per-item_topic1837_post6122.html#6122 Author: ProductCart
Subject: 1837
Posted: 21-July-2008 at 3:18pm

Thanks Katharina. I checked with the team and I'm told that this indeed being looked into. The ticket you referenced is not closed. It's pending in our system, which means that work is still being done on it.

The bottom line is that this is not something that we can fix overnight. We need to further review the changes that have been made to the USPS API, then figure out a way to adjust ProductCart accordingly.

Unfortunately, this is a case in which vendors like Early Impact were not updated prior to an API change being deployed. This happens all the time, unfortunately, not just with the USPS.]]> Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:18:03 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/set-shipping-amount-per-item_topic1837_post6122.html#6122 https://forum.productcart.com/set-shipping-amount-per-item_topic1837_post6121.html#6121 Author: macleather
Subject: 1837
Posted: 21-July-2008 at 3:11pm

Thank you All,

I'm certainly not a programmer but let me ask a question. Since we now have a check box to hide shipping charges from an item, couldn't that code be used  to hide say 2 of 3 shipping choices? If we could hide for example UPS and USPS and only allow Other Shipping to show, that would go a long way to solving this issue. We could assign rates under custom and only show those rates. Again, not being a programmer, it seems doable.

Hamish, I think that it's not only a significant expense for the retailer but confuses and may cause customers to abandon their carts.

Thanks again for your feedback.

Alan
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