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mla1
#1 Posted : Friday, February 14, 2003 5:52:56 PM
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I trying to understand how to pass the various variables to reflect shipping charges. Is there a way that this can be done by weight of the items? I know that I can set variables to reflect the weights and calculate a related dollar amount on my side; however, once these values are passed to the shopping cart if the user changes the quantity or deletes an item, won't the total charges then be incorrect?
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#2 Posted : Friday, February 14, 2003 6:29:02 PM
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What you say is true. But there is some good news. If you go to a 3rd party cart (some are free) then you can calculate that value and put it several places, the best of which is the "handling" variable which overrides any PayPal calculated handling charges for an item.

The other advantage of a 3rd party cart is that when it sends items up to PayPal the user cannot change quantities - the cart is frozen at checkout time.

Here is a client-side example so you can see how it works (this one sticks the charges into a dummy item entry)...

http://members.aol.com/paypalcart/


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#3 Posted : Friday, February 14, 2003 7:34:37 PM
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Thanks Ron. Going to have to sit down and digest, but seems like exactly what I'm looking for.
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