shipping by weight not working ????

[JCDC]

I'm using mals-e cart with paypal. I want to to be able to use ship by weight so here's an example of the code im using:

<form action="http://ww4.aitsafe.com/cf/add.cfm" method="post">
         <input type="hidden" name="userid" value="XXXXXX">
<input type="hidden" name="product" value="4 x 4 inch Tile">
<input type="hidden" name="price" value="10.00">
<input type="hidden" name="weight" value="10">
<input type="hidden" name="return" value="XXXXXXXXX">
         <div align="center">
          <p><font color="white">Quantity</font> <input type="text" name="qty" value="" size="3" maxlength="3"><input type="Submit" value="Add to&nbsp;Cart!"></p>
         </div>
        </form>

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whenever i use this values using mals-e shipping it works fine, it calculates the shipping basedo n the weight, but when i use paypal to override the cart's shipping, the shipping comes out to $0. What am i doing wrong????

[skier]

Do you have a US PayPal Account?    If yes, have you setup a shipping method based on weight in your Account Profile?   Next, you need to include two variables in your item button code for weight calculations.

<input type="hidden" name="weight" vaule="1">
<input type="hidden" name="weight_unit" value="lbs">

Note, non US PayPay Accounts presently do not have the option to setup a shipping method based on weight.

Regards,

skier

[JCDC]

i do have a US acct and even after i put in the code you told me, and i have the options turned off at mals-e...it still doesnt work

[skier]

Unfortunally I'm not a 3rd party shopping cart user nor am I familar with Mal's E-commerce.   For help with this application, you can try their forum.

If want to see basic examples of various ways to manually code item buttons, then check out this site.  Note, there is a section on shipping with tips and examples.

Regads,

skier

[JCDC]

i guess somewhere it's conflicting but i dont know what. Since i'm using Mal's-e cart , im using their "form" code as i explained before. I know that the paypal code is a little different since it actually directs the everything to the paypal cart. So i did a test and just used to Paypal code so it skipped the mal's-e cart, and the shipping by weight actually worked. But when i make it go through mal's-e, the shipping remains at $0.

There's gotta be a way. I know some variables are a bit different. Like mal's-e uses : "units", paypal uses "weight" and such.