You can make flexible shipping charges that depend on the number of products purchased in one order. There are multiple ways to do it:
In the Administration panel, go to Administration → Shipping & taxes → Shipping methods.
Create a new shipping method with manual rate calculation or click on the name of an existing one.
The shipping method editing page will open. Switch to the Shipping times and rates tab.
Select the rate area for which you’d like to configure the shipping cost. If you don’t see the choice of rate areas, it means that you only have one.
Configure the Cost dependencies section as follows:
Products cost | Rate value | Type |
---|---|---|
More than $0.00 | 4.50 | Absolute ($) |
Configure the Items dependencies section as follows:
Product quantity | Rate value | Type | Per Item |
---|---|---|---|
More than 0 item(s) | 1.50 | Absolute ($) | ✓ |
Click the Save button (or Create, if you’re creating a new shipping method).
The shipping method is set up. For the mentioned example the shipping cost will be $6 if one item is ordered. An extra sum of $1.50 will be added to the cost per each additional item in case of 2 or more items.
Note
This extra charge does not depend on the product that is ordered. For example, if a customer has 2*Product A + 1*Product B, the shipping cost will be $9.
A product has a property that allows you to specify a fixed sum of money to be added to the calculated shipping cost for each item of that product in the cart.
Go to Products → Products.
Click on the name of a product. This will open the product’s editing page.
Switch to the Shipping properties tab.
Find the Shipping freight field and enter sum (for example, 2.00) which will be added to the shipping cost for each additional item of that product.
Click the Save button.
Now let’s assume you followed the instructions from Way 1, and then used Way 2 to set up shipping freight for Product A, but not for Product B. In that case the shipping costs will be calculated as follows:
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