Post by Qphoria » Wed Apr 20, 2011 3:16 am

Q: How does weight-based shipping work?

A:
Weight based shipping uses your own personal "table" rates to determine the shipping cost.
It allows multiple ranges of rates based on different weights. The format of the weight to cost in the admin area is:
weight:cost, weight:cost, etc

For example if you want to setup the following:
Cart weight 10lbs or less cost $10
Cart weight 11-20lbs cost $15
Cart weight 21-40lbs cost $20
Cart weight more than 40lbs cost $30

You would use the following rates:

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10:10.00, 20:15.00, 40:20.00, 9999999:30.00
The last one is important because it sets an virtually infinite ceiling. If you didn't have that 9999999 rate, then anything over 40lbs would have no available rate and would not show.

Weight-Based shipping also supports multiple geozones. Read here for understanding geozones. Each geozone can have its own set of weight:cost ranges.

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