Different type of product sizes

[Robinnaiitor]

Hi all,

 

I'm running PS 1.7, and I'm having some trouble with product sizes and weights.

 

The thing is: I sell pieces of vinyl, which in terms of size for packaging does not increase linear. When people order multiple meters of it, I can simply roll it up into a tube and it will not occupy much space.

 

One meter of this product can be contained in about an area of 30 cm x 4 cm x 4 cm, but 2 meters does not occupy 60 cm x 8 cm x 8 cm, it occupies 30 cm x 4,01 cm x 4,01 cm..

 

I have thought about it before, and first came up with setting the width and height to a very small number (of which I know will always fit into the shipping container). But then a different problem occurs: 2 different colors of this product are not rolled up together, they will be 2 separate rolls of vinyl.

 

A solution might be sizes per stack, so 1-10 meters would take up x space, and 10-20 meters would take up z space. But I have yet to find a way (or module) to do so.

[ajankuv]

I was where you are now, shipping and how to manage packages.

 

Now I deal with weights, size does matter normally in shipping but weight causes the most influxes in cost.

 

Maybe deal with how much each meter weights? For us we start off with base shipping of $4 and add cost to it based on the product.

 

Example 1. 1x product adds $0.50 = 4.50

Exampe 2. 2x product adds $1.00 = 5.00

 

This really helped me long term with massive amounts of orders.