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I'm having a problem figuring out how to do what I need with the shipping in my shopping cart. I began with one category of items, Cakes, and had a programmer design a custom shipping method that charges a handling charge to each cake and then calculates a shipping charge based on the state to which the item will be shipped. This seems to work very well.

I have now added another category, Macaroons, which should have a flat shipping fee (no handling charge and the same shipping charge no matter where they are being sent). I am trying to figure out if there is a way to tell the system that the Custom Shipping Logic code is only for the Cakes category and to simply do a flat fee for the Macaroons category.

My only other thought was to enable two shipping options (UPS 2nd day and USPS), have UPS work with the Custom Shipping Logic and USPS work as a flat fee and then make UPS the only option available for the Cakes category and the USPS option the only available for the Macaroons category.

If neither of these work, I guess as a last resort I could include the the shipping fee in the cost of the item and indicate this in the description, though this would not be ideal. If I have to do this how would I tell the system to completely ignore the shipping for a particular item or category?

I have to assume that there is a way to do what I would like, but the Shipping section of the Online Manual is under construction.