Flexible Shipping PRO – Extra fee or percentage insurance based on order total

Case study

Let’s assume you run a shop and use the shipping cost calculation rules based on weight. You want to add the insurance in the amount of 10% of the order’s value, but only for the orders above $100.

How to configure such a scenario where the shipping cost is calculated based on weight and make the 10% of the order’s value insurance being automatically added when the cart’s value is higher than $100?

Plugin configuration

  1. Add the shipping cost calculation rules based on Weight and define their ranges and pricing. For the purposes of these guide we will create 3 new weight-based rules. Set them the way described below:

If you already have your own rules configured, please proceed straight to the step #2.

  • 1st rule:
    • When: Weight
    • to: 5
    • rule cost is: 7
  • 2nd rule:
    • When: Weight
    • is from: 5.001
    • to: 10
    • rule cost is: 15
  • 3rd rule:
    • When: Weight
    • is from: 10.001
    • rule cost is: 30
  1. Create a rule based on Price and set:
    • When: Price
    • is from: 100
    • and additional cost is: 0.001
    • per: 0.01 Price

Result

When your customer orders the products which summed up price is less than $100, only the weight-based rules are used for shipping cost calculation. In turn, if the order’s value is equal or higher than $100, an additional insurance in the amount of 10% of the order’s value is added to the shipping cost coming from the weight-based rules, e.g.:

  1. If the ordered products’ weight is 8 kg and their summed up price is $75, only the weight-based rules are applied and the shipping cost amounts to $15.
  2. If the ordered products’ weight is 14 kg and their summed up price is $120, the shipping cost is calculated $30 + 10% x $120 = $42 and the order total amounts to $120 + $42 = $162.

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