On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Shankar Dhanasekaran < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > I need some advice on calculating the shipping prices. Basically, the site > am working on will be selling handicrafts items from India to all other > countries. Each item is of different weight and size, and naturally will > have different shipping prices. > > The problem is: > > 1. This is my first online store and I have no idea about how the store > owners manage this scenario? i.e., how will the store owner know the prices > for shipping for all the products that are differing in weight and size? > 2. Is there a way in satchmo where I can mention shipping prices for each > product individually? Am confused here too, is it too complicated to mention > shipping prices individually? > 3. How does store owners normally change the shipping prices according the > shipping destinations? > There are a couple of different options for you. First, you already have the ability, which is actually required by most of the shippers, to enter the weight and dimensions of each product. The UPS and Fedex module use those numbers to query their API to determine shipping costs. If that isn't flexible enough, you can use the "ProductShipping" module, which allows you to define one or more "carriers", and then assign explicit shipping prices for every product. So, you could define "normal" and "expedited" carriers, and then set product A to cost $5 for Normal and $10 for Expedited. Product B could be $15/$30 for the same options. I hope that helps, Bruce Kroeze http://gosatchmo.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
