Removing shipping cost from a product

[enolbos]

Good afternoon,
I was wondering if anyone knows how to disable shipping cost on products?  I have a site full of tangible products.  But, one is a downloadable and doesn't need shipping costs.  The others do.  So, I need to know how to turn this off for only one product.  Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Brian

[LongBranchAssociates]

The 'out of the box' configurations only allow either Physical products that require a shipping method or downloadable products that obviously do not require a shipping method.  There appears to be no standard configuration to apply different options to different categories

Perhaps someone has a hack that works

[HulaQueen]

When you set up your shipping rates you can do one for 0.000 weight products. Set the rate to $0.00. We do that for products we sell that are not downloads and it works great. We just use the standard shipping module, and have configures two sets of rates:

One for our country, with a couple of rates (0.00, 0.001-.1kg, .1001-1.0 kg etc). Then one where we have selected ALL other countries, with a title of "We will send you a quote on shipping for approval after your order". We can send anywhere in the world, however I do not want to set up valid numbers for everywhere!

That works for us, and does allow non downloaded products to be set up with 0.00 shipping.

Cheers,
Hula

[LongBranchAssociates]

Just to confirm what you are saying

You use the Standard Shipping functionality
Admin > configuration > downloads > Enable Downloads > enabled
Down-loadable products set to weight 0.0000 and other products set to weight > 0.0000
This enables shippable products to operate normally, displays the Dowloads link and allows the download functionality to operate as standard for products with weight = 0.0000

Is this correct?

[HulaQueen]

I do not have downloads enabled... so if you do that might change the functionality I have described. I just 0.000 weight to indicate things that are non-shippable (like a course) where information is delivered via email.

Cheers,
Hula

[LongBranchAssociates]

I have a site where we have used the same approach you have used i.e. the download content is emialed to the customer but in this case we applied a shipper "Download" at shipping cost $0 and applied a very low weight value [below the weights of physical items]

I was hoping that you had figured out how to get the standard download funtionality working through the download link and functionality concurrently with shipping physical products

[HulaQueen]

A product being a download or not is controlled by you saying it is with a check box in the actual product listing (3rd tab I think). I have not tested it but I do believe you could do both.

* Enable downloads in config
* If a product is a true automatic download tick the download tab in the product and set the file type
* If a product is one you want to deal with manually do the low weight trick so it's free, but do not tick the downloadable product check box.

I haven't tried it, but it seems logical it should work! Do let us know what you come up with.

Cheers,
Hula