Best practice shipment costs?

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Hello,

I do not yet have a good solution for this.

I have a few “shipment products”, depending on the size of the parcel, When the order comes in, I do not know how big the parcel will be, so I put in best guess. Sometimes this guess is wrong, so I have to change the parcel. But now (for 1-2 weeks, cannot say for sure),

  • I can no longer delete items from a non-posted invoice, they re-appear after saving the invoice. I CAN change the number to 0,
  • furthermore, it seems as if “shipment items” now do appear in an invoice, although those items not yet have been sent; this looks new as well.

Probably, I did not understand how the process is meant to happen, so I’d be very grateful for some advice.

Cheers,
Wolf

2

Could you explain which is the problem you have and what do you want to update?
You need to update the shipment cost/change the carrier or what do you need to do in case the guess is wrong? This will make it easier to give a proper advice

3

In my products, I have several “shipment items” - 35cm, 50cm, 70cm etc. parcel, which have different prices. I need to change e.g. from 50 to 70cm parcel, that’s how I’m handling it now. But my overall approach may be stupid.

I looked at the docu of “shipment~” and “carrier~” modules - but could not really find out whether it would be better to use some of those instead of my casual approach.

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You should use the sale_shipment_cost module and create carriers from different products for each shipment cost.

It is also possible to modify the shipment cost manually for each sale.

Hope it helps!