Is there a way to configure shipping by product?

Most of the products in our store ship via UPS, and I have that working fine. However, we have a few CD's that we ship using USPS at a flat rate of $5. Is there a way to assign just the $5 shipping option to only the CD products and leave the rest alone?

It's not possible now

Andrei,

a suggestion on how to allow specific postage costs for individual items( though it would be per product not per item type which is what i think rtjulian was after)

currently, if shipping is enabled for a product, we have the option to set the item as free shipping
and we have the option to add  add extra shipping value ( ' Additional shipping charge ' )

- this extra shipping value is ignored if free shipping is enabled

- how easy would it be (and would there be any other side effects) if this shipping value was not ignored even if free shipping was also selected ?

the outcome of this is that we could specify the exact price of shipping for an individual item (if we wanted) - and and by selecting 'free shipping'  the cart would ignore the normal shipping options


@rtjulian
as a work around, would this work for you ?  if you set the product weight to 0 and set an additional shipping charge to $5   (it would be a problem if you need to send the weight to the shipper & it would mean that buying 2+ items would bump up shipping by 100% per item)

haydie wrote:
I think it could be customized to support this behavior (not tested). ShippingManager.GetShippingOptions() method, add the following code at the end the method:
shippingOptions.ForEach(so => so.Rate+=additionalShippingCharge)

I had this same scenario for gifts cards, where I wanted to charge $2 for 1st class mail only for gift cards.

What I wound up doing is modifying the description of gift cards so that it says $2 is automatically added to the cost of the card to cover shipping.

I did this buy modifying the PriceHelps.cs GetUnitPrice method to add $2 when the customer supplies the price (only used for gift cards in my case):

                if (productVariant.CustomerEntersPrice)
                {
                    finalPrice = shoppingCartItem.CustomerEnteredPrice + Convert.ToDecimal(2.00);
                }

I then modified CheckOutShippingMethod.ascx.cs so that if the sum of the shipping methods is zero, to skip the selection of shipment methods altogether and proceed to checkoutpayment:

                string error = string.Empty;
                Address address = NopContext.Current.User.ShippingAddress;
                var shippingOptions = ShippingManager.GetShippingOptions(Cart, NopContext.Current.User, address, ref error);
                if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(error))
                {
                    LogManager.InsertLog(LogTypeEnum.ShippingError, error, error);
                    phSelectShippingMethod.Visible = false;
                    lShippingMethodsError.Text = Server.HtmlEncode(error);
                }
                else
                {
                    foreach (var so2 in shippingOptions)
                    {
                        ttlshiprates += so2.Rate;
                    }
                    if (shippingOptions.Count > 0 && ttlshiprates > 0)
                    {
                        phSelectShippingMethod.Visible = true;
                        dlShippingOptions.DataSource = shippingOptions;
                        dlShippingOptions.DataBind();
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        NopContext.Current.User.LastShippingOption = shippingOptions[1];
                        Response.Redirect("~/CheckoutPaymentMethod.aspx");
                    }


It seems to be working like a charm.  I thought I'd post my solution in case it benefits anyone else.