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Can I combine both "fixed fee" and "calculated" items?
Posted by Doug Sherman (Import), Last modified by on 21 Sep 06 11:17 AM
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Our products offer two main choices of calculation method for your shipping rates: fixed fee or calculated. Fixed fees (either a flat dollar amount or a fixed fee code) are set by you per item; calculated fees are calculated by our shipping engine, based on carrier rates, and determined by item weight/dimensions and origin-destination. Fixed Fee Codes are a powerful way to use fixed fees. You can use them simply to configure your fixed fees in your account, rather than in your item HTML (this is a "non-associated" code). You can also configure a fixed code that is linked to different rates for one or more carrier services, offering your customer a choice of fixed rates depending on the shipping service they prefer. We call this an "associated fixed rate" as it is associated in the cart with the name of one or more shipping services. You can also define a fixed fee code differentially based on geography, i.e., one rate for domestic destinations and another for international. You may mix together flat fixed fees, fixed fee codes, and calculated rates for your items as you see fit. Allowing for this versatility means we have made some decisions on the appropriate functionality for the way rates are generated depending on the mix. Below is a summary of our logic: Flat Fixed Fee and Fixed Fee Code Items Together:
Calculated and Fixed Fee Items Together:
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