Olin,

There are options on PayPal to handle cart and combined shipping. For
example you can say 5 dollars for the first item, 3 for each additional, but
if the order exceeds the 100 dollar limit the shipping is free. Or if
someone orders more than five items then it is free. I think you might need
a business accunt on PayPal to be able to do that, but then it is nothing
else just doing the settings and then inserting the PayPal code into your
html with Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V.

Tamas



On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Olin Lathrop <olin_piclist@embedinc.com>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.
>
>
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