Advanced Shipping Price Rules - Shipping Cost on Total Cart Qty

How to Use the "Cost on Total Cart Qty" Advanced Shipping Price Rule.

The "Cost on Total Cart Qty" advanced shipping rule is used to apply gradually increasing, decreasing, or stable flat rate shipping rates to a particular range of total cart quantity.

By setting a minimum and maximum cart quantity and a fixed amount or percentage, store owners can increase, decrease, or maintain the same rate of shipping as per the total number of items in the cart. Let's take a closer look at how it works.

How it Works:

To use the "Cost on Total Cart Qty" advanced shipping rule feature, you first need to set the minimum and maximum cart quantity. For example, if you set the minimum quantity as 'x' and the maximum quantity as 'x+12', a range of 12 items in the overall cart will be created.

To increase the shipping cost for this range per added item count, you should keep the shipping amount positive. Conversely, to decrease the shipping cost with increasing items, keep the shipping amount negative.

The shipping amount will be added to the base flat rate shipping amount, which you've filled in the Fee section of the main form (Shipping Fee Configuration) of this method. For example, if you add $1, then the customers will be charged a base amount + $1 for the 'x' items, while the base amount + $5 for 'x+4' items.

Example 1:

Charge the customer with $20 if they buy between 10-20 items. For 21-50 items, the shipping fee will be $30, and for 51-90 items, the shipping fee will be $45.

Here's how to set it up:

  1. Go to the configuration section of the main form (Shipping Fee Configuration) and add a base shipping fee of $10.
  2. Go to the Advanced Shipping Price Rules section and select the ‘Cost on Total Cart Qty’ rule.
  3. In the rule configuration, set the following ranges:
  • Minimum quantity as 10 and the maximum quantity as 20, with an amount of $10.
  • Minimum quantity as 21 and the maximum quantity as 50, with an amount of $20.
  • Minimum quantity as 51 and the maximum quantity as 90, with an amount of $35.
  1. Save the changes.

If the customer adds between 10-20 items to the cart, the shipping fee will be $20 ($10 base fee + $10 additional fee). If the customer adds between 21-50 items, the shipping fee will be $30 ($10 base fee + $20 additional fee). And if the customer adds between 51-90 items, the shipping fee will be $45 ($10 base fee + $35 additional fee).

Screenshot - 1: (Admin: "Cost on Total Cart Qty" based advanced rule)

Here we have a total of 65 products in the cart ( Cart quantity is between 51-90 = $35 additional charge will apply ), So the shipping amount will be $45 ($10 base charge + $35 additional charge).

Screenshot - 2: (Shipping method front side view)

Example 2:

This rule also allows you to apply a discount to a specific range of cart quantities. For example, you can apply a discount of $1 for a cart quantity between 1 and 4.

To set up this rule, you need to specify the range of cart quantity for which you want to apply the discount and the amount of the discount. In the example given above, the rule is set up to apply a discount of -1 for the cart quantity between 1 and 4.

If the cart quantity falls within the range of 1 to 4, the shipping cost will be reduced by $1. For instance, if the base cost for shipping is $10, and the discount applied is -1, then the total shipping cost would be $9. This discount will be applied only to the specified range of cart quantity.

Screenshot - 3: (Admin: Apply discount using "Cost on Total Cart Qty" rule)

Screenshot - 2: (Shipping method front side view)