Olin Lathrop wrote:
> Howard Winter wrote:
>> Prompted by this I just had a  play with your ordering
>> mechanism, and it seems the "Flat Fee" is a tad bumpier than
>> I hoped.  The $8 is charged on each item, so if I order three
>> different items it comes to $24 shipping, which seems wrong.
>> Was that what you intended?
>
> No, but I know that's the way it works.  This is because PayPal's system
> can't combine shipping weights and then calculate shipping for the whole
> order.  All you can do is pass the shipping for the first unit and for
> subsequent units of the same model.
>
> Wouter uses Javascript code that collects the whole order then passes it 
> as
> a single transaction to PayPal.  He was even nice enough to give me the
> source code, but I haven't had time to learn Javascript and every time I
> find someone that says they'll do this (for pay of course), there is 
> always
> some excuse why they never get it done.
>
> Is there a student out there that is good with Javascript that would like 
> to
> make a few buck on the side?  I need something as described above, and it
> also has to be well documented such that I can maintain it once you create
> it.  I need to be able to add new products, adjust prices, etc, myself.

Olin, usually this problem is solved by adding shipping as a separate 
"product". This way, you can also have different shipping options (US and 
International, for example).

Vitaliy 

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