Is there a way to handle international shipping by weight for sccp? While we do target the U.S. we have now received an order from Australia, but sccp calculates the U.S. shipping cost. Any ideas on how to handle something like this?

thank you and happy holidays

Set up weight based shipping for own country, surrounding countries and international. Your buyer selects their shipping destination from a drop down on the cart page and gets the freight costs appropriate to that destination - simple.

Too much pumpkin pie this weekend.
Now that I have taken a look our supplier charges us shipping by price. So if the product costs us 23.99 the shipping anywhere in the U.S. is 14.97, but shipping this item to Australia for example the price to ship is 54.97 via USPS or 87.00 via UPS. Is there a way to get this into sccp?

Have never come across a shipper basing their charges on item price? Otherwise you could have something light such as jewellery costing as much to ship as an item of furniture, which somehow doesn't quite sound right?

OK, for weight based shipping you need to set up separate zones for each of your defined areas, so in your case you may set up prices per weight for own country and another zone set up for international orders. For round figures let's say an item costs $25 to ship in your own country, you would assign a weight to the item that related to that shipping cost in your shipping table. You can set up shopping cart pro so that weights are not displayed on the item description. All your customer ever sees is a price for shipping that item.

If it helps get your head around the concept, I ship one item which has specialist polystyrene packaging to ship it in. That is an additional cost to me for which I charge the customer. I simply push up the weight of the item into the next weight band on my tables to cover the cost of the packaging.

As with all shipping costs, folks need to remember to factor in the cost of the packaging and even things such as sealing tape and inkjet ink for printing up the labels, as the costs of simple things like that can really add up during the course of a trading year.

Thanks for all the info.
I'm not sure why they charge cost of item to ship, maybe it is how they incorporate packaging such as you mentioned without showing the actual cost.

But you have given me some great info and I'll sit down and incorporate it to our site

Thank you!

Happy Holidays once again.