Hi,

I'm not sure where this post would belong, but here goes.

We need to create a custom free ground shipping method on all our humanoids over $300. I looked around in the documentation and found some very interesting features that we were unaware of before. I also found something in the documentation (sorry if I post the link it forces this post to be moderated) which discusses setting up a Custom Shipping Method for free shipping on all orders over $50, which is really helpful and sooo close, but it doesn't quite get us what we need. We need to enable free shipping on only specific products (humanoids) over $300.

Any idea how we can implement this?

Thanks,

Alex
 

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Alex Ward
www.trossenrobotics.com
Webmaster / Architect

It is currently sitting in BETA, but you will be able to apply discounts based on categories very soon. You could use this to simply subtract 100% of the shipping when and of the items are part of a humanoid category.

Thanks, 

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Thank you for the reply:)

Unfortunately, this won't be any use to us. We need to be able to apply this discount on the product level, not the category level. This is because #1 we don't have a category named humanoids, nor does it make sense in our situation to create one. But, most importantly, if we did decide to create that category we would now have to provide free shipping to humanoids that retail for less than $100, which we cannot offer. We need to specify that only humanoids over $300 get this free shipping discount. By implementing at the category level, I can see many of your other customers running into this same exact problem (different context of course) in the future.

We do not want to subtract 100% of shipping, just 100% of Ground-Only shipping. They will still need to pay for any other shipping methods that have a cost higher than standard Ground Shipping. Is this something that we would still be able to do?

 

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Alex Ward
www.trossenrobotics.com
Webmaster / Architect

Yes, this is possible. If you are planning on applying this discount to several items then I would strongly suggest that you go ahead and create a humanoid category; otherwise, you will need to create a separate discount method for each item. In either case, all you would need to achieve the correct application of the discount is set the "Discount Method" to STRICT and then specify multiple "Discount Rules."

 
For example:

Rule 1 - If category in the cart   CONTAINS   humanoids.
Rule 2 - If total dollars is   GREATER THAN   300.
Rule 3 - If shipping method is   EQUAL TO   YOUR SHIPPING METHOD NAME

 All 3 rules will belong to a single Discount Method.

 

I hope that helps.
 

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Keep in mind that total dollars is for the order, not the product in question.

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Stefan Barlow
Systems Architect
AmeriCommerce

Sorry about that Alex... I over looked that little piece of info. Stefan is correct. The example I gave you would evaluate to true once the orders total dollar amount reached $300, rather than than the actual item being $300. I suppose in this case you would be forced to setup a Discount Method for each item.

Example:
Rule 1 - If an item in cart CONTAINS  YOUR ITEM NUMBER
Rule 2 - If shipping method is EQUAL TO   YOUR SHIPPING METHOD NAME

This would side step the need to check if the item itself is over $300; because, you would only be creating and applying a Discount Method for items that are over $300.

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Awesome; Thank you for the explanation:)

I guess the only question I have left is how would I know how much to take off from the shipping cost? In the dashboard it asks me to select either dollars or percentage to take off of either the subtotal or the shipping. The shipping is based on weight, so it's hard to determine just how much and what of to take off. Or, is this why you were suggesting that I need to create a separate shipping method for each product? Hopefully that all made sense:D
 

d'oh! Sorry, I realized that you already answered my question after I posted, haha:

"Rule 2 - If shipping method is EQUAL TO   YOUR SHIPPING METHOD NAME"

 

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Alex Ward
www.trossenrobotics.com
Webmaster / Architect

Hi guys!  Jen here.  Well, we're doing good so far, but I want to take it one step further.  I have set up the discount for each humanoid over $300 to have ground shipping (only free).  What I am running into, is if they order more items with the humanoid, it is taking off 100% of the shipping.  Below are my settings for one biped only:

Method is strict (checked)

Subtract 100 percent from shipping

Rules: 

  If an item in cart is contains  RK-WLK-BI-BPS-NS

  If shipping method is equal to  UPS Ground

 
Where the problem is:  If a person orders the biped above, we want them to have free shipping on that item.  Now, if they add twelve other items, that are not humanoids, but other products, we want them to pay for shipping on those items.  I am only able to get it to take off all or nothing for the ground shipping.  Are we able to apply it only to one specific product in the cart?

 Please let me know if you have any questions.  Thank you!!

Jen
 

In that case I would create more of a shipping credit to be applied to the ticket. Basically rather than subtracting 100% of the shipping you could figure out the actual cost to ship the item by way of UPS Ground and simply subtract that dollar amount from the shipping total. Other than that you should be able to keep everything else the same on the Discount Method.

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Thank you!  The shipping costs will be different depending on what area in the US we will be shipping to.  I thought about a specific amount (avg. shipping cost), but that could be higher or lower than the actual shipping cost.

 Is there any way to just apply the shipping discount of 100% to a specific product?

 

Currently there is no way to apply the 100% discount for the shipping amount for a specific item. Taking the shipping average and applying the shipping credit was the best method that I could think of off hand. I'll try and see if there is possibly some other way to make this work for you though. It might take a little thought though.

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Jen,

I spoke to some of the other developers here to see if perhaps they could think of some other way to accomplish what you are wanting. I'm sorry to say that without some custom development there is no way to make it happen though. It looks like taking the average or simply giving a flat credit will be the closest we can currently get you. If you are interested in having some custom development done I would suggest that you contact our sales department.

I'm sorry that I couldn't give you better news.

Thanks,

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Thank you!

I'm not sure if this helps you or not, but it's worth a shot...  I'm trying to do something very similar.  My "workaround" was to select "this item ships individually" on the product's page (on the shipping tab).  Then, I applied a discount code if that order contained the item number and I had it take off the amount of shipping for USPS Ground (which can be the same to all locations in the US for a specific-sized box), then I offered free shipping on that item by only that one shipping method (which I know the exact price of in advance because of the priority mail flat rate that the USPS offers), so that's the amount of discount I gave.  Since I set it up to ship individually, if the customer adds any other items, shipping automatically gets charged for those items separately. 

 
I hope that makes sense - I feel like I didn't explain it very well.  Sorry if not!

 
Andrea
 

I see this post is very old but have you guys thought about putting this into your system. I am using a ecommerce software right now that cost me $200 and it allows me to do a lot more as far as shipping methods go. This is one thing you should really have. We should be able to give each product its own flat rate shipping charge. That way if we want a product to have free shipping and they put other products in the cart, it still will add up the fixed rate shipping on the other products. Let me know if this is something in the works. Thank you

You can do that.... we had AC do a customization for us that allows you to do that; however preparing the data involves multiple columns and delimiting them together. You should give them a call and ask someone like Eric B to help you setup for a couple of items (he is real helpful)