Freight
The following concepts are used to calculate freight for an order within the Straightsell system.
Location Restrictions
Restricts freight to a particular location.
When the customer enters their order delivery details this will define which freight option(s) they can potentially choose.
State
Postcode (can be a range of postcodes)
Country (can be a range of countries)
Worldwide (all)
Standard Cost
This is flat rate or cost of freight for the shopping cart / order.
It will only be applied if the order meets the volume break and location restrictions, where applicable.
Break Type:
There are 4 different ways of calculating incremental costs. This is done using the Break Type field to set what the increments should use. Then changing the Break Lower Limit and Break Upper Limit to set the Ranges that the freight will apply at.
Unit Type Value - The total cost of the shopping cart
e.g. between $0 (Break Lower Limit) and $500 freight (Break Upper Limit) cost is $20 and between $501 and $1000 freight cost $25 etc
Product Count - The total number of products purchased in the shopping cart
e.g. between 1-5 products freight cost is $5 and between 6-10 products freight is $10 etc
Volume Count - The total weight of the shopping cart
e.g. between 0 and 2kg parcel might cost $5 and between 2 and 5kg may cost $10
Freight Count - Uses a custom field called Freight Charge on each item to determine the freight
e.g. having 2 items in your cart. 1 with 200 in Freight Charge and one with 50 in Freight Charge will make the freight total 250.
Price on Application
You have the option to use the above features to display POA (Price on Application) or Free Freight. This is done by setting the Amount $ to a negative number.
The above restrictions can still apply:
Example of POA
e.g. between $0 and $500 freight cost is $20 and between $501 and $1000 freight cost $25, but orders over $1001 is $POA.
Multiple Freight Options
Using the above concepts if more than one freight option applies to an order then these will be displayed as a choice in the checkout process for the buyer.
You could create two freight options with the same conditions and different prices an example of this would be:
Standard Post $5 and Express Post $10