I am new to how to setup shipping options and am curious how other users are doing it. Currently, I am only selling my own items I have collected over the years and plan on using paypal for my payment gateway. Later on down the road, I will be buying things and selling them on this same website. I only put up 10 items at a time and I don't want to have to create an account with UPS. FedEx or USPS unless I absolutely have to.
I want my customers to be able to complete the transaction including shipping without having to email me for shipping information.
Hope this makes sense. Can anyone give me some ideas on how they are dealing with this.
Thank you
Ralph
strophy (Guest)
30 Aug 2007 4:22 AM
Hi Ralph,
the way I understand it you only need to use the UPS/FedEx/USPS modules if you want fancy postage calculations to be performed in real time based on the weight and dimensions of your products. This is the functionality which requires you to set up an account with the carrier.
If you are just setting up a fixed rate for each product or destination (perhaps incrementing by number of products), simply create your own Shipping Module and enter various Shipping Types under that module to match your different needs. Activate the module, and the price will appear as soon as the user adds the country in the customer details form.
Does this help? I have my own slightly more complicated question which I will post in a minute, maybe it will interest you too!
