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VirtueMart 2 + 3 + 4 => Plugins: Payment, Shipment and others => Topic started by: Eternity on October 04, 2012, 19:50:07 PM

Title: Calculate shipping as a percentage - Please Help
Post by: Eternity on October 04, 2012, 19:50:07 PM
Could anyone tell me if it is possible to calculate shipping as a percentage of total order value in VM 2.0.10?

Thanks
Title: Re: Calculate shipping as a percentage - Please Help
Post by: reinhold on January 17, 2013, 02:01:10 AM
Not with the standard shipping plugin. But there are other plugins that can do this:

-) My "Advanced Shipping by Rules" plugin (the free plugin does not support calculations, only the paid "Advanced" version) can calculate general shipping cost functions, including multiples of the order amount:
http://open-tools.net/virtuemart-2-extensions/vm2-shipping-by-rules-plugin.html

The appropriate shipping cost rule for the configuration would be (assuming 3% shipping fee):
Name=Shipping as percentage of order total; Shipping=0.03*Amount


-) "VM Postcode for Virtuemart" also has a multiplier for the total sales amount:
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/extension-specific/virtuemart-extensions/virtuemart-shipping/21665


-) "Price Shipping": Only fixed levels, depending on order amount:
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/extension-specific/virtuemart-extensions/virtuemart-shipping/22495

Strange enough, I couldn't find any other amount-dependent shipping plugins...