Accounts Online
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Shipping&Handling
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Shipping & Handling
For orders placed via Shopping Cart module Accounts Online may automatically calculate shipping and handling costs.
The shipping and handling costs are calculated using the formula:
[shipping] + SUM[per product handling fee],
where
shipping - is fixed amount, which depends on shipping zone and delivery option, the shipping zone depends on country as per customer address (which is considered to be the shipping address). List of countries and associated shipping zones is being maintained through admin interface. Accounts Online supports up to 5 delivery options, you may assign any names to the options (e.g. "US Ground", "US Air", "FedEx"). Here is a sample the Zones x Delivery Options matrix:
| Zone |
Delivery options |
| US Ground |
US Air |
UPS |
#4 |
#5 |
Action |
Given the data above Accounts Online will calculate shipping cost as $3.00 for the customer with shipping address in the "United States" for "US Ground" delivery option (assuming the "United States" country is assigned "North America" shipping zone via Country Editor).
Per product handling fee - is a product definition field and may be set individually for each product using Product Manager.
The Shopping Cart module will automatically provide delivery option select box upon checkout if total handling fee for the products currently in the cart is greater than zero. If you need charge only fixed per package shipping fee, please specify very low (e.g. 0.0000000001) handling fee for all tangible products in order to ensure shipping fee to be added to an order amount.
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