Flat-rate shipping with USPS

[juliacreinhart]

Hi,

I have set up USPS as my realtime shipper. Now, when people order 2 items from the store, right now it calculates shipping for each item separately and adds them together. However, the two items would fit easily into one flat rate shipping box. How can I get the system to only charge the cost for that flat rate box rather than separate shipping?

[Jim]

If you set the shipping to be by weight only then products will be combined into a single package for rate calculations. I'm not sure if you would get the flat rate box rates though be cause that requires selecting a particular package type for the product.

[juliacreinhart]

Is it possible to determine a flat rate shipping cost along the lines:

1 - 5 items --> Charge $5.20
6 - 10 items --> charge $10.40 etc?

If so, how would I do that?

Thanks!

[Jim]

That would not be possible using the built in USPS shipping method but it could possibly be done in another way.

This method would work only if you are not using a real time shipping method (UPS, USPS, FedEx) and you select the ShopSite shipping by weight option. Configure each product to have a weight of 1.00. Then in the shipping by weight configuration set the rate table like this.

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From         To         Ground
0           5          5.20
6           10        10.40
11          15        15.60
...


[juliacreinhart]

great! Thanks.