Charging Flat rate fee

[deepman007]

Hi

How does flat rate applied to shipping ? Lets say I'm going to ship an item that weights about 2 lbs and the flat rate will be $6. Do I have to charge anything else? Also, what If an customer buys two items and weight 4lbs, do I also give a flat rate of $6 ?

[topr8]

the way we do it is that the customer is charged the flat rate for shipping - in our case $3.99 however much they buy or wherever it is shipped to.

[jsinger]

We've usually charged the same for shipping all orders. Easy for customers and us to understand. Flat rate shipping gives us more margin on annoying tiny orders and less on large ones. Makes it much easier when people phone in orders to our B/M location and ask about shipping charges.

Note that we don't export and our products are about the same weight. We are in the USA midwest so we don't have extreme shipping costs.

We've played with offering two tiers and a free shipping tier for very large orders. Don't see much difference.

Should add that our flat rate is per order, not per item.