Use price per product - how does it work?

-- HikaShop version -- : 2.2.0
-- Joomla version -- : 2.5.14

Hi, In Hikashop we are using the Australia Post shipping plugin. The customer wishes to override some automatic postage costs on a per product basis. For example, since the Australia Post plugin/API doesn't support Letter sizes (only Parcels), they want to enter a manual price for shipping a letter based product.

I thought if we turned on "Use price per product" option in the Australia Post plugin, this would enable us to use automatic Australia Post postage for all products except products where we enter a manual shipping cost.
So we have:

• set "Use price per product" option in the Australia Post plugin
• edited one of our products and added a shipping price of 2.00

See attached screenshots.

When this product is added to the cart, the shipping price still appears as $6.95?

Hi,
1. This option is correctly working for me so you should probably update your Hikashop version (that's probably just a cache issue).
2. Also, the "Use price per product" option will allow you to ADD to the Australia post shipping rates a price per product.
The best solution will probably be to use a manual shipping method for these products, then you'll be able to manually fix the price.

Hi Mohamed,

Enabling the manual shipping plugin isn't a solution because (1) you have to add manual shipping prices to all the products otherwise people can add items to their cart for $0 shipping cost if they choose the manual shipping option and (2) you can't 'combine' Australia Post automatic shipping calculations and manual shipping calculations together to get the most accurate price for the customer.

What we need is a solution to allow override of the Australia Post shipping cost for a single product.

For example, a person adds product 'ABC' to their cart. Product ABC has a product shipping rate of $2.00, customised in the 'Shipping Prices' section of the product. The same person also adds Product 'ZXY' to their cart. Product ZXY has no shipping rate override in the product so it uses the normal Australia Post automatic calculations which adds up to $7.00. When this person checks out, their total shipping cost is $2.00 + $7.00 = $9.00

Is this possible?

thanks
Bianca

wirthconsulting wrote: For example, a person adds product 'ABC' to their cart. Product ABC has a product shipping rate of $2.00, customised in the 'Shipping Prices' section of the product. The same person also adds Product 'ZXY' to their cart. Product ZXY has no shipping rate override in the product so it uses the normal Australia Post automatic calculations which adds up to $7.00. When this person checks out, their total shipping cost is $2.00 + $7.00 = $9.00

Is this possible?

thanks
Bianca

1. Sure, you'll just have to add a price through shipping price tab of the the "ABC" product page, then this cost will be added to the Australia post shipping rates, if you have an "ABC" product in your cart.
2. Regarding the fact that your shipping cost doesn't update, can you clear your browser cache and try it again ?
Thanks.

I may be stupid however this isn't working for us...

1. I installed a clean version of Joomla 2.5.14 and Hikashop 2.2.1 on a test server.
2. I then went into System -> Shipping Methods -> Australia Post. Enabled this plugin. Changed the field 'Use Price Per Product' to Yes. Ticked 'Standard' in the field 'Shipping Services'. Save & Close.
3. Create a test product under Product -> Add a product. Click Save.
4. At this point there is no "Shipping Prices" section on the Product Edit page. All caches - website and browser - have been completely cleared.

On the website where we installed Hikashop 2.2.0 the Shipping Prices section in the product editing page appears.

Have I missed a step in setting up individual product prices using the Australia Post shipping plugin?

Ok so can you send me a temporary back end access through a private message for testing purpose ?

My bad, only the manual shipping method is compatible with this feature for the moment, so you'll only be able to show this shipping method through your product page.
We already added this issue on our todo list .

OK - is there an approximate timeframe for development e.g. 1 month, 6 months, 1 year? We just need to give the customer a general idea of when it will be available.

Hi Jerome,

Sorry I don't understand what you mean about these "different ways to improve it". From my perspective we just want to know when the requirements mentioned previously will be available for just the Australia Post plugin (not manual shipping)?

QUOTE:
"For example, a person adds product 'ABC' to their cart. Product ABC has a product shipping rate of $2.00, customised in the 'Shipping Prices' section of the product. The same person also adds Product 'ZXY' to their cart. Product ZXY has no shipping rate override in the product so it uses the normal Australia Post automatic calculations which adds up to $7.00. When this person checks out, their total shipping cost is $2.00 + $7.00 = $9.00"

Hello,

I am wondering if there has been an update regarding price per product with the Australia Post plugin.
We have a client who, similar to wirthconsulting, wiishes to use Australia Post for shipping, with a few products having free shipping or a set shipping price.
It appears that if you use price per shipping with the Australia Post plugin the amounts set for shipping in the product add to the shipping cost still.
I have set up 2 warehouses as a workaround, one for using the Australia Post API to calculate shipping costs, the other for product with set shipping costs using the Manual shipping plugin. This works for some combinations of the products, but the client also wants to have free shipping on orders over $150. I have set up the plugins to Maximum price:AUD $149.99 and have another manual shipping plugin set with minimum price $150, however it only works if the products are in the same warehouse, not on the order total.


-- HikaShop version -- : 2.4.0
-- Joomla version -- : 3.4.1

Thank you Nicholas.

AwoCoupon Pro has worked very nicely to solve this scenario.