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Specials charges for specific items
Question
Is there a way to add extra charge for certain items?
For example the customer wants a certain product delivered on Saturday: they click on a check box or a dropdown menu to select Saturday and the basket adds whatever extra charge I set.
Answer
There are a few ways of supporting something like this.
One would simply be to have one shipping method set to 'Normal Shipping - Saturday Delivery'. You could then set all the price boundaries to a set charge above the normal shipping. This, however, would not allow for specific options for individual products.
The other method, which offers much more control, would be to add an extra version for each product that needs the optional extra charge. For products with normally only one version, you'd then just add on a second 'Special Saturday Delivery' version which has the extra charge included in the price. This will offer you complete control over which products have the extra charge, and by how much.
Finally, you could add the additional charge as a seperate product. This would have the advantage of showing as a seperate line on the basket, on order emails etc. You could add at as a related product to the original product, so it links through to the special delivery option. The downside to this method is that without extra coding there's no way of ensuring that the 'extra charge' product is only purchased when the original product is also purchased.