Handling Fee separate from shipping charges

[CheeBonnet]

How can I add a separate handling fee to shipping charges? During warmer weather, I have to ship my product with additional packaging, but I want it to appear as a separate charge from the normal shipping charges for each region. How can I accomplish this? It would be a flat fee for all regions.

[PayPal_Frank]

Welcome CheeBonnet! 😄

If you're invoicing your customers, you could add a separate line item for that.  If you are receiving payments on your website and using standard PayPal buttons, you'll need to set the handling variable in the PayPal button code or in the advanced variables section under Step 3 of the button creator.

If you're using a 3rd party shopping cart, it may be easier to see if they offer that feature so that you wouldn't have to update multiple buttons.

It might be easier to just include it as part of your shipping calculations and disclose on your website that a flat fee is added to shipping rates so the customer would know what to expect before being redirected to PayPal for payment.

I hope this helps! 🙂

- Frank

[fsdcinc]

what exactly do you have to input in that advanced area to get the handling fee to be applied - and where do you attach a cost to it?

[PayPal_Frank]

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@fsdcinc wrote:

what exactly do you have to input in that advanced area to get the handling fee to be applied - and where do you attach a cost to it?

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If you're putting it in the advanced variables box it would be:

handling=5.00

If you're adding it to the code (for a non-hosted button), it would be:

<input type="hidden" name="handling" value="5.00">

Keep in mind that this is item based and not quantity based so if somebody clicks a button with handling, they can add as many quantity as they want and the total handling (for that item/button) will still be the initial amount you set.

- Frank