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Thanks. So there is now way to setup two different free shipping protocols without the help of additional plug-ins?

Thanks, this was super helpful and really helped me to wrap my head around this!

Thanks for your reply, @seank123. We have different formulas for each of our different shipping classes for the US.

I understand that changing the formula for a particular shipping class won’t affect any others – my question is about how to correctly edit this formula:

21+[fee percent=”5″ max_fee=”31″]

So that it will properly calculate our shipping costs, which are:

Our site quotes: $45.55
The actual USPS cost is: $64.78

In other words, we are undercharging for this particular shipping class, and I’m unsure how to edit the formula. Thanks for your help!

Thanks for your in-depth reply. I appreciate it!

Thanks for following up.

We have been setting shipping class costs under:

Shipping zones > United States > Flat rate > Shipping class costs

Entering a default value of ‘6’ for a shipping class in this section would not set a base shipping price of $6?

Outside of a entering a single number in our shipping classes, some classes have formulas as well, such as:

18+[fee percent=”5″ max_fee=”31″]

I was under the assumption that this creates a base shipping fee of $18 with a fee percent that equals 5% of the order total, if the order total is at least $31.

Are these single digit entries and formulas for different shipping classes not creating base shipping prices? I’m just trying to figure out where my understanding is wrong.

Thanks, Mirko. Outside of custom coding, could we just set a base shipping price of $6 for this particular shipping class and that would achieve the same goal?

One follow-up question to my original question:

We have formula-based shipping setup for our shipping classes. Example:

10 + ( fee percent = “10” min_fee = “4”) means a base shipping cost of 10 dollars plus 10% of total order, which is at least 4 dollars per order.

We want to set a minimum shipment fee of $6 when the total order is $5 or less. We only have a few products in our store that this would apply to. Those products are $0.50 each and we would create a new shipping class for them.

Could we write a unique formula for this particular shipping class to achieve the above goal? Or would we simply set a base fee of $6 for that particular shipping class?

If using a more complicated formula, would the formula be:

6 + (min_cost = “0.50”)

Thanks for your help!

Thanks, Mirko. I appreciate your help here.

Thanks for your input, Ryan!

Outside of switching over to table rate shipping, would a simple solution be to create a new shipping class for these low dollar amount products and assign the new class to the product?

Thanks, Mirko! I appreciate your help.

Thanks, Margaret. Will regenerating for the product lookup tables have any kind of adverse effect on the site or our existing products? I just want to be sure before moving forward.

I appreciate your help!

Thanks for your help! It’s much appreciated.

Thanks so much!

Hello – I’m giving this message a bump from a week ago:

Thanks for getting back to me. I understand now.

This sounds like a suitable solution outside of the item sold being called ‘custom item.’ We like to be able to see exactly what people have purchased when viewing data. Is there a way to change the name of the ‘custom item’ after adding it to an order, on the fly?

Thanks for getting back to me. I understand now.

This sounds like a suitable solution outside of the item sold being called ‘custom item.’ We like to be able to see exactly what people have purchased when viewing data. Is there a way to change the name of the ‘custom item’ after adding it to an order, on the fly?