[ic] Fixed price shipping?

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Grant)]

>I have a question for you guys...
>
>I've got a customer that sells electronic items (different prices,
>different sizes), and currently does fixed-price shipping on a per-item
>basis.  We're looking at moving him to Interchange, and here's the problem
>we're having:
>
>A customer orders a TV ($150 product, $15 fixed shipping)
>and a satellite receiver ($300 product, $8 fixed shipping)
>
>There doesn't seem to be a way in Interchange to accomodate the fixed
>shipping per item option.  The market that he's in is competitive enough
>that we can't just do a $15 add-on to the $150 price ($165 in total), so
>we need to find a way to dynamically calculate the shipping from some
>other field.
>
>I played around with using the weight field to do this, but then there's
>the problem of the "Display Cart" option showing the shipping weight
>incorrectly (since we're using it for something else).
>
>Does anybody have any ideas as to how to work around this, or how to
>implement a good fixed price per item shipping method?
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

I would think you could just add a column to the products db for
fixed_shipping and add those fields together at checkout for all the items
in the cart and use that as the shipping value.

- Grant