simonjacksongg

Andre,
Thank you for taking the time to read and respond to my questions. Some of what you say landed but I am still a little confused too…

If I May…
I have one shipping Zone called Flat Rate, One shipping Method Called Flat Rate UK Mainland, and 4 Shipping Classes FREE (0), Light (£3) Medium (£6) and Heavy (N/A)

1. I am now getting a Shipping Cost displayed but it is a total figure. I had hoped to be able to show a list of all products in the cart and show next to them a shipping cost for each them. That way if someone has say three products in the cart and one is Free shipping, one is £3, and one £6 they could see how their shipping cost total is arrived at.

At the moment they would have no idea that one of the products qualified for Free shipping. Something like:

Product 1 Cost Shipping
Tray £15 FREE
Candles £25 £3
Table Lamp £170 £15

Total Cost £210
Shipping £18

Am I going about this all wrong? I am a beginner and so do not know what normal looks like for other small businesses with shops.

2. Are you suggesting that people define multiple shipping zones to cover the same area and assign shipping methods/classes to them? I am a little confused. Or are you suggesting I create multiple shipping methods and assign a class to each? So instead of one zone, one method, and 4 classes.
I might have 4 zones 4 methods each with a single shipping class? or 1 zone with 4 methods each with a class? Or 1 zone, two methods (Free and Flat) and 1 class in Free and 3 in Flat?
Sorry you can see I haven’t quite nailed this yet…

3. The last question is a bit like the FREE Shipping Class I think. I just want to be able to ask the client to call for shipping if the item is really bulky like a sofa. So they put a sofa in the cart and it has a class of bulky and that has a bot of text (or the title?) that says ‘Please call to confirm shipping’

Thank you once again for your help, it IS really appreciated,

Sam