Shipping charges based on location

  • Mira Boucher
    Asked on August 1, 2020 at 2:53 PM

    The form is for one product at a set price, but there is variable shipping that needs to be charged based on the province in Canada:

    - on the first product, 3 different shipping rates - should automatically be charged based on the province entered

    - on the second and subsequent products, a reduced shipping rate - should automatically be charged based on the province entered

  • John Support Team Lead
    Replied on August 1, 2020 at 3:29 PM

    Unfortunately, there are only two SHIPPING options within Square. It's either you charge "PER ITEM" or "PER TRANSACTION":

    Shipping charges based on location Image 10

    For PER PRODUCT ITEM, you have to specify the cost of shipping each item. Do note that if the ADDITIONAL ITEM COST is left empty, buyers will be charged a flat rate based on the FIRST ITEM COST.

    The ADDITIONAL ITEM COST is also applicable if you have set up a QUANTITY option for your product.

    While for the PER TRANSACTION (Flat Rate), your buyers will be charged for the shipping cost you specify regardless of what item they choose or how many they buy from your payment field.

    GUIDEHow-to-Add-Shipping-Cost-to-Payment-Forms 

    Since the requirement is to charge the shipping based on Provinces, we can instead create the products outside the payment field, make a formula to manually calculate the shipping cost, and just pass the calculated value to the payment field.

    Please check this ticket which has relatively similar requirements as yours: https://www.jotform.com/answers/1707056