Additional postage cost for specific items

Hi guys,

I have a store where for 90% of the products, the shipping costs are set up as follows: £3.95 for UK delivery, £10 for delivery within Europe, and £15 for the rest of the world. If the customer spends over £200, and delivery is within the UK, then the shipping cost is free.

This all works fine.

The issue is, I have a couple of products on the site that are bulkier and more unwieldy than the rest, and I would like to be able to add an additional set delivery charge if any of these items are purchased. It will go as follows; no extra charge for within the UK, and £10 extra for delivery within Europe and the rest of the world.

Is there any way of setting this up? I've been racking my brains, and have tried various methods, but none of them seem to quite match up with what I am after. One thing I tried was creating a new tax class, applying this tax class to the relevant products, then configuring the handling fee to add a £10 charge to any products with that tax class. It worked, sort of, but there were 2 problems; firstly, I had to add a figure for tax to the tax class (obviously) and even if this is 1%, it still shows up as a 1% tax through the checkout, which would be confusing to the customer, and secondly, this charge would still apply the the UK as well as the rest of the world.

Anyway, hoping someone out there has either come across this before and sorted out a workaround, or has an idea of a way of getting this to work together.

Thanks in advance,

Kyle

Qphoria has a Shipping Groups extension that seems like it would work for you.

Thanks for that.

I had a quick look, I think its what I need... I'm just hoping to hear from qphoria to confirm that it will do what I require before I purchase it

We are using that same module as well in one of our store, works very well.

Do you know if it allows you to do what I require? ie Give certain products a set additional shipping cost, depending on shipping zone.

To re-elaborate;

Customer purchases product A;

' If they want it to ship to the UK, the shipping cost is the standard shipping cost of £3.95.
' If they want it to ship to Europe, the shipping cost is the standard europe shipping cost, plus the additional shipping cost.
' If they want it to ship to Rest Of World, the shipping cost is the standard ROW shipping cost, plus the additional shipping cost.

The additional shipping cost only needs to be applied once. So even if they add 6 product A's to the basket, the additional shipping cost will only be added one time.

Thanks in advance

Sounds like you just want simple zone based flat rates.

Create 3 geozones
Then in the weight based module set each rate at
UK= 9999999:3.95
Europe= 9999999:6.95
rOW= 9999999:10.95

Hi,

Thanks for the reply, qphoria.

I currently have the shipping set up like that; I have 3 geo-zones, UK, Europe and ROW, and in weight based system I have it set up as 999999: 3.95, 999999:10.00 and 999999:20.00, respectively.

So obviously, if a customer selects a UK address, the shipping is a flat rate of £3.95, a European address, the shipping is a flat rate of £10.00, and a ROW address, the shipping is a flat rate of £20.00.

This is all fine, I just need to be able to add an additional single flat rate charge to specific products in the store (only around 10 products). If a customer adds one of these products to thier basket, there will be an additional one off charge of £10, if the delivery is being made outside of the UK. Within the UK, the additional £10 charge does not need to be applied. So, if the customer has one of these 10 products in thier basket, and require shipping outside the UK, the cost will be the single flat rate (£10.00 for Europe, £20.00 for ROW, as is currently set up) PLUS an additional one off £10.00.

Thanks in advance,

Kyle

That has given me a thought.

At the moment, weights aren't really used in the store, so every product has the default weight of, I guess, '0.00'.

If I added an additional shipping option to the "Europe" and "ROW" geo zones in weight based shipping, and edited the shipping option that currently exists, something to the tune of:

UK. 999999:3.95 (remains untouched)
Europe. 1000:10.00,999999:20.00
ROW. 1000:20,999999:30.00

Then the products I need to have an additional flat rate of £10 for, I can give them a weight in the product section of '1001' (or higher). As no other products have any weight applied, it will only be when these specific products are added, that a weight of over 1000 will be hit.

I think this should work, I'm not currently able to check it, though. I'll have a bash later on tonight and let you know how I get on.

Sounds like a clever idea -- hope it works for you.

could someone tell me, why i am already enabled my weight base shipping method in admin, but when i try to checkout my orders, the system still showing error "there are no shipping method"?
Is it a bugs or some setting missed out?
please assist me on this issue. thank you very much.

When checking out, your address is probably not part of the weight-based Geo Zone. How are they set up?

Hi Jonathan,
But I am ensure my weight base Geo Zone and address is match,
I've set up 2 Geo Zone which is East Malaysia & West Malaysia,
East Malaysia contain Sarawak,Sabah and so on.
West Malaysia contain Johor, Perlis and so on.
Whereas my address when I check out is Sarawak, somehow it shows me the error "No Shipping options are available."
Any Ideas why this happen?
Thank you very much for your assistance.

The only other thing I can think of is that the product weight is out of the range (remember you need to set a final high limit like 999999) or the product is marked as not requiring shipping.