Offering different postage/shipping options

[louisemcevoy]

Hi

I need help offering different shipping arrangements for my customers on my website.

I would like to offer either next day delivery at £8 or standard delivery (up to 3 days ) at £5.

Is there a way I can do this or do I need to get a third party shopping cart. If so, then how do I do this?!

Struggling massively!

thank you

[jaysch]

I have similar probelm:

I want the customers to select one of the following choices:

1. Free Shipping
2. Express Shipping
3. Overnight Shipping

I don’t want shipping costs to be based on price, quantity, or weight. Just how soon the customer wants the product.

Would love to hear the solution for this issue!

[RKeenan]

This can be done in a number of ways.

You could ask the question to the customer before they pay and then calculate shipping options based on that and update the shipping cost accordingly..... or if you are using express checkout, you could use a callback that would have the customer select the shipping cost/method on the PayPal website. This would be using the "CALLBACK" attribute for setExpressCheckout.

Regards

Russell

[lw091070]

Do not understand this at all. 

I have a standard "Shopping Cart" button and I want the customer to be able to choose their own shipping method, as some of my customers are local and would like to collect themselves, therefore no delivery charge should apply. 

Can this be done? 

You say that the customer can be asked before they purchase. How? 

Can this only be done through express checkout?

Very, very confused. I've spent about 3 hours online trying to solve this problem. 

[blessedgal]

Did you ever find a solution to this?  I need the exact same options as you've described!

Thanks!

[alband]

Same thing here? Anyone got an answer to this?

I haven't even started using this PayPal checkout thing, I'm still planning what to do, and already I'm stumped by this. How would you add different shipping option to the checkout page, that would adjust the shipping rate on ALL items?

Thanks,

David.

[PayPal_paula]

Hi belssedgal, 

Apologies for my delayed response. 

May I suggest that you take a look at our shipping calculator video to see if it helps at all. 

If you are customising your buttons this may help. I have also added a list of other HTMLoptions. 

Please let me know how you get on.

Paula 

[Fishlock]

The shipping calculator video is an excellent guide, providing your are in the US. Outside of the US, Paypal merchants don't have the facility to set domestic and international shipping rates. I know this because I've spent 6 hours looking into this matter today!

[alband]

Agreed. All the stuff in that video would be just what I needed if I were in the US.

As far as I can tell, there is no way to offer different shipping methods to customers and have the shipping amount be calculated based on what's in the cart. The only way to do it, is for the customer to just send me a message with what they want on it, then I can send them a message telling them the shipping after I manually work it out. Kinda clunky?

Is there any way for my website to "see" what is currently in the users cart? And is it possible for my site to update the shipping that's added to the order? If that were possible, my site could then work out what the shipping would need to be, and send that information to the cart. I know there is the "handling" HTML variable (that HTML link was very helpful, thanks) but once one item has been put in the cart, that variable can't be changed.

Look forward to hearing a reply to this, though I fear the answer is simple "you have to be in the US".

Cheers,

David.