Shipping Rate Provider Suite Wine Cellar Sample

This example shows how to use the Shipping Rate Provider Suite to package items into cases using the followng rules:

1. The merchant offers two UPS shipping services: Ground and Second Day Air.
2. Wine is packaged into cases of 6 bottles. The packaging weighs 1 pound.
3. Accessories are shipped separately from the wine.

The final implementation looks like this:

1. Divide items into wine and accessories (non-wine).
2. Package the wine into cases.
3. Retreive the rates for the wine cases and accessories.

Prerequisites

• Shipping Rate Provider Suite 2.5
• UPS Account

Steps

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First we will create the two carrier quotes:

• UPS Ground
• UPS Second Day Air

1. Create a shipping method called UPS Ground using the UPS provider.
   1. Select Ground shipping.
2. Create a shipping method called UPS Second Day Air using the UPS provider.
   1. Select Second Day Air.

Next we create the two shipping methods that will package wine into cases: one for UPS Ground and one for UPS Second Day Air.

1. Create a shipping method called Ground using the Package Rules provider.
   1. Select UPS Ground as the Suggested Service.
   2. Add a new packaging rule called Wine:
      Packaging: 1 pound
      Criteria: Total Item Product Type Contains Wine and Total Item Quantity ≤ 6.
   3. Change the default shipping cost rule to use UPS Ground.
2. Create a shipping method called Second Day Air using the Package Rules provider.
   1. Select UPS Second Day Air as the Suggested Service. 
   2. Add a new packaging rule called Wine:
      Packaging: 1 pound
      Criteria: Total Item Product Type Contains Wine and Total Item Quantity ≤ 6.
   3. Change the default shipping cost rule to use UPS Second Day Air.

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