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Hi there,

I wonder if you can help. I have tried various ways of writing rules to achieve the following (sounds so simple but I have not managed it so far!):

If the total cart weight is less than 20KG, shipping is always £7.50
For every KG over 20KG, an extra £0.25 is charged.
If any product in cart exceeds 1.6 metres in length, an extra £3.00 is charged as an addition to the weight

Is this possible?

Thanks very much in advance.
Sarah Stewart

Actually, this shipping cost structure is not too hard to implement in the advanced version of the plugin:

The key trick here is to handle the addition to the weight as a custom variable. First you initialize it to zero (first line), and if the MaxLength is larger than 1.6, then you set it to 3 (second line). In the actual rules (one for weights below 20kg, one for above), you simply add that variable to the shipping costs.

Alternatively, you can use four rules without any helper variable:
Best regards,
Reinhold

PS: I have written these rule by heart without actually testing them. They are supposed to work, but I might have missed a typo or so. I think they should give you enough of an idea to solve your problem.

Problem solved.