Thank you Bruce for the help. I am looking into this. Thank you, Shakthi
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Bruce Kroeze <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
