Quoting Robert Wall (suppressed): > I have a question for you guys... > > I've got a customer that sells electronic items (different prices, > different sizes), and currently does fixed-price shipping on a per-item > basis. We're looking at moving him to Interchange, and here's the problem > we're having: > > A customer orders a TV ($150 product, $15 fixed shipping) > and a satellite receiver ($300 product, $8 fixed shipping) > > There doesn't seem to be a way in Interchange to accomodate the fixed > shipping per item option. The market that he's in is competitive enough > that we can't just do a $15 add-on to the $150 price ($165 in total), so > we need to find a way to dynamically calculate the shipping from some > other field. > > I played around with using the weight field to do this, but then there's > the problem of the "Display Cart" option showing the shipping weight > incorrectly (since we're using it for something else). > > Does anybody have any ideas as to how to work around this, or how to > implement a good fixed price per item shipping method? > This question comes up at times, and I guess the answer is obvious to me but not many others. 1. Add a column "shipping_cost" to products table or wherever appropriate. 2. Add a line to shipping.asc. per_item Shipping charge shipping_cost 0 9999999 f @@TOTAL@@ 3. Change your shipmode to per_item, usually in country table. 4. Reconfig -- you are done. -- Mike Heins Perusion -- Expert Interchange Consulting http://www.perusion.com/ phone +1.513.523.7621 <suppressed> When the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems tend to look like nails. -- Abraham Maslow _______________________________________________ interchange-users mailing list suppressed http://www.icdevgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/interchange-users
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