Embedding shipping charges into product prices?

[bemara579]

I want the shipping charges embedded into the prices of products so I can offer "free" shipping at the end of checkout. This will give the illusion of free shipping, but I am not losing out. Does anyone know how to do something like this in the code?

[mazhar]

It may take significant amount of changes to produce this effect because shipping charges may change and may change upon different address. So have to do a lot to control display. Also it can cause possible confusions to customer because think of a case where customer added product to cart and then changed its shipping address causing change in shipping charges that changed price of product being added to cart.

[William M]

If you are OK getting a fixed amount to ship just about anywhere, just add to the price on the product edit page. I'd be careful about getting only a few dollars to ship something to AK or HI though.

As Mazhar said, real-time shipping rates coming in will change as the address changes on the checkout page.

[kastnerd]

If your want to try and get UPS ground quote based on the computer IP before the user logs in. Iv never seen a site do this. So im not sure if its a good idea to even try.

If you are going to hide the price untill the user makes an account. That might work. But also not normal.


A good idea might be say include $8 of shipping on to the cost. then modify the shipping to discount all rates by $8.00 (per item?) So if shipping is $7.50 the customer would see free shipping. If shipping to AK is $20 the customer see's $12.00