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By BORNXenon - Wed 21 May 2014
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I'm just in the process of setting up banded shipping and finding it quite tedious.
Most courier companies in the UK have a set consignment fee up to a certain weight (say 20kg) and then charge a fee per kilo (say £0.22) up to a set weight (say 100kg) and then a different fee per kilo after that.
Kartris doesn't currently cater for the fee per kilo, could this be implemented?
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By Paul - Sat 31 May 2014
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The shipping system is written in a way that can support plugins so technically any kind of shipping can be supported if custom-written. However, the banded shipping is a general system we've found is very flexible. It's true that with per-kilo pricing you may end up having to create numerous bands. You may find if you look into the tblKartrisShippingRates table and see the record format, you can create your own SQL script to add in all the records you need.
While per-kilo shipping seems a basic and obvious choice, it's not necessarily that simple. Most postal systems have a maximum weight, and may also price weights at the low end a little differently (as sending 100g is rarely 1/10 of the cost of sending 1kg, and sending 1kg ten times is rarely the same price as sending 10kg in one go). Everyone seems to have slightly different requirements for shipping which although seem natural and obvious to them, often aren't quite as uniform in practice. Banded shipping is really the most flexible way to ensure these things can be done although it's true that in some cases it can take a while to create all the required bands.
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