Sell a number of yards by Fixed shipping before increasing to an eParcel category

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Hi Folks

 

We sell some product by the yard and in many cases we can sell up to three yards in a Large envelope, priority shipping stamp for $3.5

 

Over 3 yards the parcel must become a eParcel shipment because we cannot get more product in the envelope

 

Is there anyway that we can tell the system that if we sell 4 yards or more the shipping rate must change to under 500 gr eParcel shipping and the shipping calculation then reverts to weight?

 

Thanks

Mike

Everything Fabric

Erik Merkley

This is a great question. Freight is complicated. It can take a lot of thinking to map your business requirements into an ecommerce system, even one as flexible as Neto.

 

This would be relatively simple if you only sold fabric, but the solution needs to cater for the other (bulkier) products you also sell. My approach is certainly not the only way, but this is how I'd tackle it.

 

Under Settings > Shipping Categories, create a new category called Fabric. Shipping categories are an advanced feature which let you separate different type of products which need to be treated differently for shipping. Here it will indicate a flat product suitable for envelopes in small quantities.

 

Make sure your fabric SKUs have a shipping weight (per yard) set. We'll use the weight of 3 yards to know when to switch shipping methods. Set every fabric SKU to a shipping category of Fabric (you can do this in bulk with a CSV import).