Are formulas similar to the Flat Rate possible?

  • Resolved vladbejenaru

    (@vladbejenaru)


    7 years, 10 months ago

    Hello,

    Is it possible to define for each tier simple formulas like the ones in Flat rate?

    For example:
    Tier 1: 1-3 items; formula=5 + 0,5*qty
    Tier 2: 4-6 items; formula=8 + 0,7*qty
    Tier 3: 7-12 items; formula=15 +0,3*qty
    Tier 4: 12+ items; formula=25 + 0,1*qty

    Another question would be if the plugin can include a table where you can specify different shipment costs for, let’s say, up to 24 items in the cart.

    My personal problem: i have a shop that sells wines and I have different fares depending on the number of bottles ordered… fares with a high and strange variation up to 24 items/shipping… This variation might trigger on/off the buying impulse… ??
    After 24 items let’s say I could live with a simple formula that will cover most of the costs.

    Thank you!

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  • Plugin Author mhodges

    (@mhodges)

    Not at this time. I am working on the release of version 2.0 and will give your request consideration. If I can come up with an easy, flexible user interface that provides this additional functionality, I’ll build it into version 2.0.

    Thanks for the question.

    Thread Starter vladbejenaru

    (@vladbejenaru)

    thanks for taking it in consideration ??

    Plugin Author mhodges

    (@mhodges)

    I’ve concluded that a separate plugin should be written for this functionality. This plugin would make a good skeleton for that work. The reason is that the user-interface is by design very simple. Attempting to support both a formulaic structure and a simple tiered structure would not lend itself to keeping the user interface simple.

    I’ll consider writing the separate plugin once this one is published. I’m done coding and wrapping up QA.

    Thread Starter vladbejenaru

    (@vladbejenaru)

    you know the bottom of the iceberg.
    as I see it in the actual woocommerce this is implemented not so friendly and simple at the same time: some shortcodes are built in for the formula, in a text input field and simple mathematical calculations are done behind. There is not a visual formula proof solution, one should check/test if what he entered as formula is functioning as desired.

    in the text field the user should give exactly an input like this:
    5 + 0,5*[qty]

    Plugin Author mhodges

    (@mhodges)

    That looks very doable. Besides [qty] I’d be inclined to investigate other potential dynamic variables to include in a 1.0 release. Also, would need to figure out how to determine whether I’m parsing for ‘.’ or ‘,’ according to the configuration settings. It would take some time to figure these things out. The rest of the implementation would be very straight forward. Thanks for the comments and food for thought.

    Thread Starter vladbejenaru

    (@vladbejenaru)

    I thank you for the effort! Godspeed!

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