donation 'product' charges for shipping!

[wombatboy]

has anyone figured how to make a donation 'product' exempt from shipping and handling cost????

Currently I am charging Shipping according to quantity of product, and the donation is set to increments of £1, so it requires the quantity field.

Can anyone suggest a way round this because I cant see it.

Thanks

WB

[cdicken]

A workaround would be to change to charging shipping by weight.

Then create two shipping bands in the table that look like this:

Weight in kg | Cost
0.00 | £0.00
1.00 | £1.00

Set the 'Default Weight in kg' field to '1.00' and then enter a weight of '0.00' for your donation product.

[wombatboy]

but i cant set shipping by weight as it is meant to be dependant on the quantity of the items (the customer specified this).
Could you suggest anything else?

Matt

[chrisbrown]

Chris's suggestion will work. A nominal 1 kg weight for most things and 0 kg for free shipping items will give you exactly the effect you looking for.

You can change the text from "Weight in kg" to "Chargable shipping items" (or something like that).

[wombatboy]

thanks! i didnt realise you could have both weight and quantity as factors in the shipping costs.

Thanks

Matt W

[chrisbrown]

thanks! i didnt realise you could have both weight and quantity as factors in the shipping costs.
You can't really have both but by using a weight of 1 for each product it looks as if you are charging per unit.

[Sly9er]

My advice to you wombatboy is to pleade with your client to
go with shipping weight, not quantity.

I see issues in your future with the quantity option. Not
neccessarily because of Actinic, but because, the shipping
world really does revolve around weight.

I kept proding at one of my clients, and they finally caved.

I was even able to give them a donations page that doesn't
get charged for shipping, after they caved. You can view it at:
http://www.life-line.org/acatalog/If_You_Love_LIFE.html

Let me know if you need any help setting up one for yourself.