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I purchased the VM Advanced Shipping Rules. It appears to be great plugin. I have tried various rules using your documentation and forum postings, but have not found a rule that works for my situation.
Here is my scenario:
Categories 1 and 2 are always shipping=0, regardless of other products are in the cart.
Categories 3 and 4, the first product is shipping=10, each additional product is shipping=5

So if the cart contains 2 products from categories 1 and/or 2, and 2 products from categories 3 and/or 4, the shipping total should equal 15.

Product Category 1 shipping= 0
Product Category 2 shipping= 0
Product Category 3 shipping= 10
Product Category 4 shipping= 5
Total shipping=15

The following rule works for 0 shipping on two categories and priced shipping on two other categories:

Shipping=0*evaluate_for_categories(articles, 1,2)+10*evaluate_for_categories(articles, 3,4)

But I haven't figured the proper syntax for making $5 shipping for each additional item of categories 3 and 4.

So the first item of Category 3 or 4 is shipping=10, and each additional item of Category 3 or 4 is shipping=5

Dear Rooksads,
Your approach is a good start, but I think you need two separate rules, because basically, each product from categories 3 and 4 costs 5$, plus a basic cost of 5$ flat if at least one product from categories 3 or 4 are bought:
Best regards,
Reinhold

Works perfectly. Thank you!

This topic is solved.

Problem solved.

Hello Reinhold,

I have almost the same problem so decided not to open a new topic.
My scenario is:

Category 1 and 2; shipping of the first article=23, each additional article- 12
Category 3 and 4; shipping of the first article=10, each additional article- 2
But
if any article from Category 3 or 4 is been bought with any article from Category 1 or 2 then the shipping of the articles from Cat.3 or 4 is free.

Could you please help me to build the rule.

Thanks in advance

Dear TrickyBug,
Let's first try to rephrase your shipping costs in a way that can be directly implemented. Please tell me if I misunderstood anything in your descriptions:
- If any products from categories 1 or 2 are bought, shipping is 23 (for the first article) + 12 for each additional article from categories 1 and 2; Articles from categories 3 and 4 are completely ignored
- If no products from categories 1 or 2 are bought, shipping is 10 (for the first article) + 2 for each additional article from categories 3 and for.

This can be directly written as a ruleset:
Please note that instead of " 23 for the first article and 12 for each further article", I used the equivalent formulation "11 fixed plus 12 for each article bought".

Best reagards,
Reinhold

Thanks a lot!