Ubercart

Here is how this will work, I think.

For each of your flat rate shipping rates, like "Shirts and Jackets", or whatever, you have to create an associated Product Class. If you are not familiar with Product Classes, they are essentially new content types for specific types of Products, so after you create these classes, you will use

Content -> Create Content -> Light Shirts and Jackets and NOT Content -> Create Content -> Product.

Then, you locate each one of your Flat Rate Shipping methods:

Administer -> Store Administration -> Configuration -> Shipping Quote Settings -> Quote Methods

(NOTE: it is important that you have the 'weight' for each shipping method set appropriately, so that Ubercart will apply the methods in order, lowest to highest, so in your example, your most expensive flat rate should be weight 0, next expensive should be 1, etc.)

Click on the Flat Rate tab / section and then for each one of the flat rate methods you have already defined, you click the 'conditions' link. This takes you into the Drupal 'Actions' system configuration, where you will be able to add one or more rules that will determine when the particular shipping method and its prices are applied. These available Ubercart actions are provided in a nice drop-down list in the Conditions group area of the screen. So, in this list, you locate and select Order: Product -> Order has a product of particular class. Then click Add Condition.

This will load screen that will list for you all your Product Classes. You select the Product Class that matches this shipping rule. For example, you should have a product class such as Shirts and Jackets and a shipping method for Shirts and Jackets. You select the product class from the list and click the overall Save Changes at the very bottom of the form.

Whew. this is a lot, and it is painful because once you are in the Actions area of the configuration, you can't get quickly back to your list of Shipping Methods.

But, once you have done this for each product class that has an assoicated flat-rate shipping method, it will work like this:

1. User adds product from Shirts and Jackets to cart - flat rate is $15 plus $3 per product
2. User adds product from Product Class B to cart - flat rate is $10 plus $3 per product.

When they go to checkout and click "calculate shipping", Ubercart will choose your Shirts and Jackets class and use it for shipping costs.

I realize this is a lot, and I wrote it quickly, let me know if it makes sense.

Brian

I have follow the instructions on this post but when I click on calculate shipping it shows both the cheaper option and the expensive option. How do I get it to just display one. I have set the order of my quote methods but that does seem to make any difference.