Comments on: Zone Shipping by Weight, 1 price, multi zones + default zone

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 12 May 2010 07:15:14 +0000

Rick – shipping by weight is standard in osCommerce.

By: Rick Harden

Rick Harden — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:40:54 +0000

Order 30 basketballs, can only put 24 in one box have to put 6 in another, how does that effect shipping. Is there a way with osCommerce to ship by weight as an option? So that the company can simply ship by the weight of each basketball like so:

30 x basketball @ 15.6 oz each = Total basketball weight is 29.52 Lbs.
$cost per lb. x 29.52 = $total shipping cost

Is there an option like this available with osCommerce?

Thank you for any help you can give me…

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:38:41 +0000

Most web design companies have no clue how osCommerce works "under the hood". For next time, make sure to get an osCommerce expert on board first to give you advice on design.

For your shipping, you just need to pass along to the customer the cost that you are charged by the drop shipper.

So, you need to ascertain the cost for the order to the customers destination – the dropshipper is who you need to speak to. Or you can guesstimate the shipping cost. Some orders you lose a bit, some orders you'll gain a bit.

By: Len Chieffo

Len Chieffo — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:25:32 +0000

Thank you for your quick response, here is our situation, We hired a professional web design company to do every thing for us, they installed oscommerce, and you would think that from our specifications they would know just what to do, well that does not seem to be the case, it is turning into a three ring circus and to make it worse they have been paid in full. I am the customer and I the one sourcing the info. Our format is an online store and we are using more than one drop shipper to forward our products to our customers, my dilema is what type of shipping process we should use since we are not actually doing the shipping.

Thank You

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:37:29 +0000

Len – shipping modules are straightforward, so long as you have the theory worked out of what you want to achieve. Suggest to sit down and work out how you want to charge postage, then see if there ir a pre made solution. If not, get someone to code it for you…