Defining individual shipping costs for specific products
Most online shops offer a wide product range. Some items incur significantly higher shipping costs—for example, if they must be shipped as bulky goods or under special conditions.
Configure shipping so that a surcharge is added to the standard shipping costs whenever specific products are placed in the shopping cart. You can achieve this by creating shipping cost rules and assigning them to the relevant products.
During the checkout process, the customer selects a shipping method. The shop processes all shipping cost rules assigned to this method. It checks whether the defined condition (assigned products) applies to the items in the cart. The rule will only be applied to the shipping calculation if the condition is met.
Procedure
Define the products as a condition in the shipping cost rule.
Go to .
Select the relevant rule from the list of shipping cost rules.
In the Products tab, click Assign Products.
Use drag & drop to move the products into the right-hand list of the assignment window.
Close the assignment window.
In the Main tab, define a shipping surcharge.
Complete the remaining settings of the shipping cost rule.
Save your changes.
Assign the shipping cost rule to a shipping method.
Hint
You must assign at least one shipping cost rule and one payment method to the shipping method. For consistency, assign countries as well. If no countries are assigned, the shipping method will apply globally.
Go to .
Select the desired shipping method from the list.
In the Main tab, click Assign Shipping Cost Rules.
Use drag & drop to move the shipping cost rule into the right-hand list.
Close the assignment window.
Example
Proceed in the same way as with product categories.
For details, see Example: Categories and shipping cost rules in the demo shop.