[ main menu ] Hostahoy Shopping Cart is the Internet's most complete shopping cart software for shipping options. You can set up shipping schedules for all or each one of your products. You can have a different schedule with different rates for shipping to a different part of the world. How Shipping Schedules Work Since the beginning of catalog shopping, retailers have been faced with the shipping dilemma - how to automate shipping while charging a fair price for shipping. The most common method used today in catalogs and on the Net is the "charge by total" method. This however lacks in many ways. Products are very often different sizes and different weights. A store that sells both feathers and bricks for $1.00 ea cannot reasonably setup up shipping based on price. This would mean an order for a dozen bricks would cost the same to ship as a dozen feathers! Thus we introduce the shipping schedule. Shipping schedule name - In the above example you would setup two different schedules, one for feathers (you can name it feathers) and the other "bricks". The name of the schedule should be a simple reminder of what product(s) it is for and contain no spaces. You can have shipping schedules setup based on total price of the order. To do this, simply create a new price schedule named "price" (must be all lowercase). Then create the schedule with the same range:price method described below however in the "price" shipping schedule the range is the total price of the order before tax. Here is an example: 0-10.00:5.00 In this example, if the total order is less than 10 dollars, the shipping will be five dollars. If it is more than 100 dollars, there is no shipping charge. This will also work for percentages: 0-10.00:5% Here if the order falles between 10 and 100 dollars the shipping will be 15% of the total price. Shipping method - Here you would define the carrier or method of shipping such as "UPS GROUND". If you are offering your products globally you would also want to specify what part of the world these shipping prices would be for, such as "UPS GROUND [to Europe]". If you were shipping globally you can setup several schedules for one carrier for each part of the world. Very often two would be enough - one for shipping inside your country and one for shipping outside your country. You can specify the order in which your shipping methods appear by placing numbers in front of the shipping method name. For example, if you wanted shipping method "UPS" to appear before "FEDEX" then name/rename the payment options "1 UPS" and "2 FEDEX" respectively. The numbers will not show on the checkout form. Range:Price - Range can be from one number to a higher number
(n-nnn), just one number (n), or a number with a "+" after it (nnnn+). Price
can be either just a total price for any number of items within the specified
range (ex. 1-12 items would cost 9.95 whether 1 or 12 items are ordered), price
can be for each item within that quantity by adding an "ea" after the price
(ex. 1-12 items would cost .95ea, total shipping would vary depending on number
of items ordered within range) price can be "CALL" to be used with quantities
too large to quote or price can be a percentage (by using % sign) of total
price (ex. 1+:10% would add 10 percent of the total cost of the items using
that schedule to the order). One entry per line. Separate each range and price
by a colon (:) - do not use any spaces. |
