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Individual Shipping Costs

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9:49 pm
September 8, 2008

Ben

Guest

Hi there,

Beautiful theme & plug-in…
I've been looking in the admin section, and it looks really comprehensive.

One question that I couldn't find an answer to is about calculating shipping charges. I see how to add a shipping price to an item; but is there an option to do it by weight?

ie. The cost of shipping 1 ProductX is $5. So if the customer chooses 2 ProductX, they'll be charged 2x$5 = $10. Which is probably ok if they only order 2; but if they order 5, will they be charged $25 shipping? – which might seem high.

Is there a way to enter a maximum shipping charge? (ie shipping can never be more than $8.99?) Or is it possible to calculate shipping costs by product weight?

Love to purchase this, but would like to know beforehand.
Many thanks for your reply.

Regards,

Ben

1:34 pm
September 9, 2008

Market Admin

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Depends on your location…if your US based you can use Paypal Profile based shipping (set in your paypal account). This allows you to calculate shipping by a number of values, including weight if you wish to use it.

2:24 pm
August 19, 2009

Mike

Member

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Admin,

You imply above that the Market Theme can pass product weight information to PayPal. I don't see anywhere on the product page where I can add weight. How do I assign a weight to each item so PayPal can calculate shipping cost on weight?

Thanks!

8:07 pm
August 19, 2009

Market Admin

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Hi Mike,

That previous posting was by a previous admin, and it looks like he was a little vague.

Currently, Market would need some code additions to offer weight based shipping. There is no built-in functionality to do this at the moment.

It COULD be done by changing 2 files in the theme, so that it populates the "weight" variable and passes it to Paypal, and 1 change in the product manager plugin so that you can easily enter the weight of the product.

So, to answer your question — you can't do it by weight as-is, but it's possible to convert it to do so.

(However there's not any code provided in the forums to do this to my knowledge).

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