Use a shipping provider or create your own shipping list. You can now select Shipping methods supplied by a shipping company, such as UPS (see below), or create your own shipping tables to reflect any costs you want with any spreadsheet that can export comma delimited files. This allows you to define unlimited shipping methods to unlimited regions, and to define the exact shipping costs applying to each region and shipping method. Shipping costs will be based on weight. To do this create a new folder in C:\Program Files\ShopFactory\Provider For each Shipping Method add a file containing the pricing information. This file must have the name of the shipping method and the extension shp, for example Same Day Delivery.shp Then, inside the file, simply list the costs as follows, Region1,0-10=4,10-200=5,... Region2,0-10=5,10-200=6,... whereby Region is the region the products are shipped to, 0-10 is the weight range and =4 is the shipping cost for the weight range in the shop currency. The example in Shopfactory in the provider folder makes it clear - you can import it into Excel as a comma delimited file. In the rates field you can specify handling costs which are added to the shipping costs calculated. When you save it, save it as comma delimited file (csv) and change its extension to shp to make things work (click on the filename with the right mouse button , then click on rename). To define overall handling costs, you can enter a price for handling costs in the Rates field - it will then be added to the shipping costs during calculation. If a product requires special handling or packaging, you can add these costs in the A shipping field in each product: Double click on the product in Advanced Mode, click Next, Next and enter the handling costs for that product. Make sure the fields B and C have a value of 0 This function will only work, if the names of the shipping methods defined in the shipping/tax wizard are DIFFERENT from the ones you have used in your .shp shipping table if you have generated one. Just open the shipping/ tax wizard to change these names, if neccessary. |