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Tips on Shipping Fee Management |
Configure Shipping Fees This page lets you configure the shipping fee logic in the most generic and flexible way. It is used by the program to automatically calculate the shipping fees on the order.asp page. Before you start, you should have decided your shipping methods, the types of items you will sell on your site, and how you divide the world into global regions and list the countries under these regions. CyberShop has pre-filled the last two parts with a US-centric consideration. You can modify the settings to suit your area. Click on the related topics to see how they can be done. We also offer you some common tips when doing the configuration. To configure a shipping fee,
Note: Item types defined in the Shop Manager correspond to the "ProductType" hidden field when you set up the "Add to Cart" button on your shopping pages. The ProductType field should be among the Item Types defined here. Though exact match is not required. The program allows partial match on words. See Tip 2 below. Developers: It is possible to define your own shipping fees on the order.asp page. Simply set
and then complete the subroutine Sub ExternalShippingFee() (defined on the page). For example, inserting the following code into the subroutine,
will tell CyberShop to charge $5 fee if the total is <$50, $10 for total < $100, and $15 for total >= $100. We have also included a more sophisticated version in the shipping.asp file, which handles multiple merchants and weight scales. |
Tips on Shipping Fee Management Tip 1: If a product has more than one components to be considered as items for the shipping fee purpose (e.g. a package of 2 music CDs in a set), you can include a BaseQuantity hidden field in your shopping page to indicate this (i.e. set it to 2). This is done when you set up the "Add To Cart" button. Tip 2: Multiple words can be put into the Item Type definition. For example, you can define LPs 12" 7" as a Item Type. Then shopping items with either LP or 12" type will fall into this category. When matching the item types, CyberShop first searches for exact match. Then it tries to pattern-match the individual words in the Item Type description. Tip 3: Configure shipping fee by weights (or dimensions etc.). You can pass the weight information in the BaseQuantity hidden field on your shopping page. Meanwhile, you can configure both the First Item and Each Additional fields to be the shipping fee per unit weight. The unit can be for example "lb.", "kg", etc. The number can contain the decimal point. Tip 4: Irregular fees. What would I do if there are no rules to follow? Well it is easy. You can define all the possible shipping fees and associate each of them to an Item Type. For example $1 for Type S-001, $2 for Type S-002, ..., $100 for Type S-100. Then on your shopping pages, simply assign in the ProductType hidden fields one of the types. |
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