Shipping and Handling

[jstraete]

I have a client who wants to add a $10.00 Shipping and Handling fee to all orders, regardless of the item or quantity. I tried adding the tag:

input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="10.00"

to my Add to Cart button, but this adds a $10.00 shipping fee for each purchase. I have also tried this:

input type="hidden" name="shipping" value=""

input type="hidden" name="shipping2" value=""

but it charges shipping and handling for each piece also, whereas I want it to add $10.00 total before the user checks out. (Note: I know the tags above aren't tagged appropriately. I had to make it appear as it in order to allow it to be posted).

Under the Merchant Services tab and the Shipping & Tax section, I didn't seem to find anything to get me what I am looking for unless I happened to overlook something. Can someone help me please?

(I figured this was more appropriate to be placed under Merchant services rather than shipping, my apologies if that was incorrect).

[sammyjones]

I'm looking for the same answer. How can this be so hard to find? I've spent 30 minutes on Google searching and Paypal help is useless.

[GoldenSands]

Wow, at least I'm not the only one. I was starting to suspect that I was the only one for a bit there.

I've been looking to solve this question for hours now. What I did was I went into the shipping calculator in my profile settings, I set it to charge shipping by quantity, and set the shipping for 1 and up at 2.99, but it doesn't show up on the Review Your Payment window when I try to make a purchase and check out.

HELP! I'm trying to get my site up to take payments ASAP!

[mbcaster]

If I understand your problem correctly then try adding the following to your buttons

handling_cart=10.00

That should do it. It only applies once to the total cart order. This will be be added on in addition to whatever shipping calculations you have in place. You can read futher on this variable under the cart variables section of the Website Payment Standards PDF.

There is one caveat to this. If you have a scenario where some items you sell require handling charges and others do not you can get into trouble. If a customer selects two items, one with, and one without the handling charge, then the handling charge will show up (plus any other shipping) on the cart. If the customer changes their mind and removes the item with the handling charge, the handling charge itself does not go away. It remains on the cart. The only way I've found to clear it is to clear the whole cart and start over. This obviously, is a non-starter from a customer facing point of view. I just put a post up on this problem as I need to get a solution from PayPal ASAP. (this is only on the PayPal native cart - as far as I know)

But if you want that handling charge applied consistently and just once, cart wide, then try this variable (you'll need it on all your buttions. The first button selected takes precedence).

Hope this helps.

[JeanH]

How do I work on the HTML for my page. To add S&H I need to add this: handling_cart=3.00, but where?

[irish_green]

Within the HTML there will be a <form> tag(s) for each button and form you have on that page. Within each PayPal button form you can add something like:

<input type='hidden' name='handling_cart' value=3.00>

I have not used their cart and buy now buttons yet as we are currently implementing Express Checkout as a payment type to our existing cart. So the exact form element syntax might vary a little.

[golden]

Great replies, this has helped me get started, But one thing I can't find the answer to is if you want to charge $10.00 for handling for a total order under $100 and $0 (free) for orders over $100.  Not sure what I'm missing.  Thanks for your help.