Flat rate not covering all the variable I need for shipping product

Not sure which shipping method you’re using?

Wouldn’t USPS or https://www.woothemes.com/products/flat-rate-box-shipping/ be more suitable?

Sorry that was a confusing post. I am using USPS flat rate. (if it fits it ships). This is where my problem is. I can fit 4 quarts of syrup into a large flat rate box for $17.00. Right now, if someone orders 4 quarts off of my site they will be charged 4 separate shipping fees, (4×17.00), which is WAY too much. Same for my other smaller items. This must happen when people sell t-shirts or similar things via flat rate I would think…. I just can’t wrap my head around how to make my shipping work.

I don’t know what USPS method you’re using, but the one I wrote for WooThemes has a box packer so would combine shipping (unless shipping per item).

I’ve been checking out the link and it very well may work. Thank you! I appreciate your time.

One thing though. I don’t really need to set up zones, since flat rate boxes from the USPS don’t use zones to determine pricing. Can I skip this part and just use the dimensions of the box?

Zones can be for example, for the US as a whole.

ahh! I get it. Thanks! I’ll give it a shot.

So, I’ve been setting up the dimensions of all of my products as well as the two boxes I use. Saved all of the changes and such… I tested it out on the site and it worked for the maple cream product – sort of. If I purchased 1 maple cream it would put it into the appropriate size box, but if I bought 7, (a number I knew wouldn’t fit into the box), it didn’t bump the box up to the larger box. It just kept it at the smaller box. It didn’t matter how many I ordered. the box never fluctuated.

The rest of the products are not working at all. I get an error message saying that the product # is missing dimension, aborting. But the dimensions are there. I went on to the plug in site and followed the directions on how to add dimensions and it’s exactly what I have.

So, I guess I have two issues. For some reason my dimensions are not being recognized and the plug in doesn’t appear to be adding up dimensions to switch to the next size box… Am I making sense? Feel free to look at my site if you need a visual. quarryhillfarmmaple.com

If you can help me out – thanks!

I realized that the only difference between my maple cream and the other products was that I forgot to delete the weight, (which I thought wasn’t necessary). Now I don’t get the error message on the other products, but It doesn’t say flat rate box at check out either. It has a message which states: “Please continue to the checkout and enter your full address to see if there are any available shipping methods.”

Packing is volume based. Ignore the sizes and calculate if the volume of 7 would fit.

“Please continue to the checkout and enter your full address to see if there are any available shipping methods.” – there is a setting in shipping options to require an address first. You can also set the default customer address.

Thanks for your help Mike, but I just couldn’t get it to work for my specific situation. I tried using Table rate and that looks like it will do the trick. It adds up the weight in the cart and bumps the total for shipping up accordingly. It was a little time consuming to set up, and I had to think way ahead to what people might order, (larger orders…), but it seemed to do what I needed it to as I ran through the scenarios live. I did pass your plug in on to a friend of mine and she is most thankful!!