Hey, here's what i'm trying to do (just an example), but i can't figure it out:

Shipping option 1:

- USPS
- $5 per order + $1.99 per item in the basket

Shipping option 2:

- UPS 2nd day
- $10 per order + $2.99 per item in the basket


I figured out how to charge a certain amount per item in the basket... but i can't figure out how to add a dynamic per order charge as well. I can set the handling price to a number, but it doesn't change based on the shipping type. Anyone know how to do this?

Ok

The only way I would see to solve this problem is to add custom shipping and do it like this.


0 -1 $6.99 - per item in basket

2-2 (do not know if you can put 2-2) and have it $8.98 - in this the 2 would represent two items in the basket which would be $5.00 charge + the 1.99 *2


Do you get it? You are adding in the $5.00 charge

Do the same thing with the $10.00 order charge

krazykickz, thanks for replying, but i don't really understand how to input what you suggested. (sorry i'm a newbie)

Could you be a little more specific please?

I would accomplish that sort of shipping markup by using the custom shipping, but not each item in basket. The reason I would not select this is because that option is not exactly "each item in basket". It's really a "per pound" feature. You should mark each item as 1 pound, though, so you can keep track of the number of products by the number of pounds in the basket, sort of as a flag. So, I would set up my table accordingly: (weight low, weight high, price, dropdown box)

0, 1, 12.99 Entire Basket
1.1, 2, 15.98 Entire Basket
2.1, 3, 18.97 Entire Basket
3.1, 4, 21.96 Entire Basket

and so on. A bit cumbersome, but it will get the job done exactly as you want.


If you had only one flat fee off the top, this could be done even easier, using a handling fee for, lets say, the $10 fee, then each item in basket would be used, and you would put your per product rate up. So, it would look like this, with the handling fee set at 10.

0, 1000000, 2.99 Each Item in Basket

And that's it. So, it will calculate $10 + 2.99 per pound. Since you can only specify one handling fee now, you will need to do it as above to accomodate your needs. Perhaps down the road we can implement a handling fee per shipping method to help out with this.

Hope this helps!

Thanks for the help everyone, it works!