[ic] Shipping - flat rate

[Michael Stearne]

Dan Busarow wrote:
> On Feb 12, Kari Suomela wrote:
> 
>>Tuesday February 12 2002 13:33, Michael Stearne wrote to All:
>> >> affecting me again. :( Can someone point me to a direction, where I
>> >> can find info how to set flat rate (per item) shipping?
>>
>> MS> On a similar note.  Is it (and how) possible to have shipping that 
>> MS> is
>> MS> a flat rate of $6 per item for the first 4 and then a flat rate of 
>> MS> $30
>> MS> for all quantities greater than 4?
>>
> 
> This seems too easy so I must have missed something earlier in the
> thread.

Not really, probably me being too lazy and not reading enough.

I will try that.

Thanks,
Michael
> 
> flat  Flat Rate  quantity 1   4   f (@@TOTAL@@ * 6)
> flat  Flat Rate  quantity 5   99999   30.00
> 
> Totally untested and might have some circular dependency since the
> criteria would normally be multiplied by quantity.  That could be 
> fixed by adding a column for freight_units.  Normally set freight_units
> to 1, in special cases you could increase it, say make it 2 for an
> unusually large item.
> 
> flat  Flat Rate  freight_units 1   4       f @@TOTAL@@ * 6.00
> flat  Flat Rate  freight_units 5   99999   30.00
> 
> Dan
>