Hi Daniel, I dont think adding a part of the shipping cost to the product price is a good idea. Firstly it make your product more expensive compared to prices offered by other websites, customers may not really get to the point where they come to know the total cost of the order. So even if the total cost i.e. product price + shipping cost is less than that of competitors, one will loose many customers. This is from a marketing point of view. Secondly, if add the cost to the product and the customer adds more than one unit to the cart, the shipping cost will not really follow the X for 1st unit and y for every additional unit.
I have not yet tried the USPS auctomatic shipping since we have not really updated the weight of the items. I would have been great if we could define the shipping cost per item, just like to define the price of the item, this way one could have more control on the shipping calculations. I also curious as to how the 'facility' application works. If am correct we can actually define the facilities from which each item is shipped. If it were possible to relate the shipping cost to the facility from which the item was being shipped, it could provide more flexibilty in calculating shipping. For eg. we could create virtual facility for similar items a,b,c etc. and a particular shipping rate from that facility and similar setting from another facility. During checkout, shipping can be calculated for items from each facility and a consolidated sum may be displayed to the customer. Its just a thought, what do you think of it. Rohit Daniel Kunkel wrote: > > Hi Rohit > > Would it work to do something like this: > > Add X to the product cost. > > Have Z, the difference between Y and X (Z = Y-X) as the flat rate > shipping > cost. > > The big disadvantage here is that this system needs all of the products > in the store to use one Z cost for shipping. > > Alternately, how would it work to use an estimated weight for the > product, and contact usps to get the shipping cost regardless of the mix > of products, and taking into account where it's going domestically. > You can look through jira to see the patch I needed to get usps working. > > Thanks > > Daniel > > > On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 08:17 -0700, rohit2006 wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to calculate per item on the following lines: >> >> X amount for the first item and y amount for every additional item. I am >> not >> sure if we can do this, can we? >> >> I also run 2 very different catagories of products, which are shipped >> from 2 >> different locations and thus the shipping cost vary a lot. How can we >> configure shipping in this case? >> >> Thank you, >> >> rohit > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-calculate-shipping-per-item.-tf2306062.html#a6427143 Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
