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Hello Reinold, hello everyone,

I have a problem regarding the Advanced Shipping tool and shipping based on SKU's. I will try and keep it as simple as possible.

Scenario 1:
Customer is buying only one product, which is a CD with the SKU Number D405B.

The code given in the back is:
Name="D405B"; "D405B" in SKUs; Shipping=0
Name=United Kingdom; 0.01<=Weight<2; 2*Weight+1
Name=Free shipping For Ebook; Weight==0; Shipping=0

It works perfectly of course. Keep reading.

Scenario 2:
Customer wants to buy the CD with SKU number D405B and a book (weight is below 2 kg, etc etc and therefore needs to pay some shipping costs towards it, in this case it doesn't matter how much).

In the back:
Name="D405B"; "D405B" in SKUs; Shipping=0
Name=United Kingdom; 0.01<=Weight<2; 2*Weight+1
Name=Free shipping For Ebook; Weight==0; Shipping=0

System says:
No shipping for the CD, but doesn't take the book into account. So no shipping at all, but the customer should pay the shipping for the book.

My question is: how can I write the code in such a way that it reads and/and? Especially the first two lines "D405B" and "United Kingdom"?

On this moment it is written like if/if. So if system is picking up CD, then no shipping and the loop stops there, but it should continue with the next line.

Could anyone assist me please?

I thank you in advance for your help.

Kindest regards,

Wendy

Dear Wendy,
Your observation is correct: The plugin stops at the first rule that matches and offers the shipping rate specified by that rule. This is one of the key assumptions of how the plugin works. This gives it a lot of power, but you have to keep this in mind when you design the rules.
The other thing is that all rules are applied per cart, not per product. So once a shipping rate is determined, it does not make sense to look at the next rule.

The logic of your rules as you wrote them can also be expressed as:
1) If the CD with SKU D405B is bought (possibly among other items), then shipping is free for the whole order.
2) Otherwise, calculate the shipping based on weight (if weight between 0.01 and 2).
3) Finally, if none of the above applies, and the weight is zero, offer free shipping.

As you can imagine, to make things work the way you like, you need to rearrange the rules a bit. If I understand you correctly, you want to exclude only the CD from the weight-based rule, but not other articles. Does the CD have a weight configured?

- Case 1: CD does NOT have a weight configured => Simply put the weight-based rule first.The CD won't contribute to the Weight, so the cost is calculated correctly. And if the customer buys only the CD, the weight will be 0 and the condition on the weight in the first rule will not match, so the second rule will be considered in that case.

- Case 2: The CD does have a weight configured => You cannot look at the Weight variable, because that contains the weight of the CD, too. Thus, you have to define your own custom weight variable that contains the weight with the CD's weight subtracted:The logic is similar to the first case, just that you use the MyWeight variable, where you have subtracted the weight of the CD from the total weight of the cart's contents.

Best regards,
Reinhold

Thanks for helping. Case 1 was the most useful and it is working perfectly. Thank you.