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Hi Kurt,

I guess it depends on how you want to handle the cost of the shipping. 

If it's ok to have a shipping selection per products but the total shipping cost would be calculated per order, I would use an orderline field where I would store the shipping option and a custom Shipping provider handling the calculations for each orderline.

If you want to calculate the cost per orderline, it becomes more complicated and you may probably want to use some sort of taxes per orderline.

This is just off the top of my head how I would do it but I am not sure if it's the right or ideal approach.

Adrian

Hi Kurt,

There's a simple option as well, but it requires some setup.

Let's use "Weight" as the example (also works with Volume):

• Rename the weight label from "Kg" to "Units" or even "€"
• Set the Weight to be the same amount of Euros for the shipping cost
• Then set 1 shipping fee rule to match 1 weight Unit with 1 Euro
  • You may need to create dozens of shipping fee rules to get this to work though

I know this may be easier said than done. In fact if you can create a custom shipping provider that simply takes the order "weight" and multiplies it by 1 Euro, it's way easier.

Best Regards,

Nuno Aguiar

Or create bundles of 2 products - the product itself and its shipping. Then only sell the bundles. It can even be configurable so you can select different shippings

If shipping is selection for customer per product, i think easy option is create custom shipping provider to handle this with logic. otherwise i dnt see any inbuild feature to handle this

with this you can handle shipping cost per each order line and also total shipping for order, you want to save shipping method and cost for each line in custom fields

also think about if they create free product discounts how you want to handle shipping for those free items.