Shipment based on weight child product

[sucuisine]

During checkout the shipment cost have to be  calculated based on the weight of the product. I have several variants of the same products each with an other weight. So I have to define the several child products with several weights

Within vm there are 2 solutions for this using custom fields:
Use a custom field type generic cart variants or use the custom field type plugin.

Using generic cart variant
The child products are being shown in the dropdown box on the detail product page. When a variant is chosen the product is being retrieved, this take approx 5 sec ( too long), and the name of the parent is changed
The calculating of the shipment cost is correct in the cart

There is a workaround (not nice) for the parent name: use the same name for the childs as the parent but use a different sku name. But there is no workaround for the delay in retrieving the product.


Using plugin stockable variants
The child products are being shown in the dropdown box. Changing to the other product variant is easy and fast. But the shipment calculation is based on the weight of the parent even the child is placed in the cart.

Is there a way to configure this that the weight of the child will be used in stead of the weigth of the parent?
Is there an other solution for ship cost based on weight?

Who can help??

[almoravit]

Hi,

did you solve it? I'm in the same situation. I'm using VM 2.0.14

Regards!