[ic] shipping question

Vlad Sedov interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Fri Nov 16 12:21:01 2001


That's simple enough...


thank you!



Vlad


> -----Original Message-----
> From: interchange-users-admin@interchange.redhat.com
> [mailto:interchange-users-admin@interchange.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Ed
> LaFrance
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 11:03 am
> To: interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [ic] shipping question
> 
> 
> At 06:33 PM 11/15/2001 -0600, you wrote:
> 
> >hello list -
> >
> >
> >i'm lost.. :(
> >
> >
> >I'm trying to figure out how to calculate shipping based on 
> an SKU number.
> >i've looked at the shipping.asc file but it just got more confused.
> >
> >we use a specific SKU scheme, kinda like this:
> >
> >10XXXXX - shipping is $25
> >20XXXXX - shipping is $20
> >90XXXXX - shipping is $5
> >
> >
> >is there an easy way to do this?
> 
> Well, fairly easy. Add a column called 'flat_ship' to your 
> products table, 
> and populate it with the shipping charge for each item.  Then modify 
> shipping.asc, adding your new mode.  It should look something 
> like this (-> 
> = TAB):
> 
> peritem -> Standard shipping -> flat_ship -> 0 -> 99999 -> f @@TOTAL@@
> 
> sorry, I just don't use the shipping interface in the UI, so 
> I honestly 
> can't tell you how to create it that way, but I am sure it is 
> quite easy.
> 
> Finally, add the new shipping mode to the appropriate records in your 
> country table, and Apply Changes.
> 
> - Ed L.
> 
> 
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