[ic] Fixed price shipping?

[Nora Heuer - Baytides Management Inc.]

On 1 Nov 2002 at 10:31, Robert Wall wrote:

> 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?
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated :)
> 

A column in your products table that you do not use (or start a new 
one) and use it to enter the amount of the shipping.

Then setup a new shipping option that calculates the shipping from 
that particular field and adds it all up.

You can then call it via [shipping "whatever you called the option"] 
on the checkout page.

Nora