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  peters@slx-online.biz July 10th, 2022 @ 09:38 AM

  I'll go play in my sandbox with various options and see if I can come up with something. I'm not sure enabling all countries on the off-chance of an order would be a good idea. There has to be a simple work-around. I'll get back after I've looked at this further. Peter.

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  peters@slx-online.biz July 10th, 2022 @ 10:52 AM

  Setting up a free shipping option, I get a number of warnings - see attached

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  peters@slx-online.biz July 10th, 2022 @ 01:20 PM

  OK. When will there be a patch for me to fix this please (as well as the inability to save store general settings)? Thanks. Peter.

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  peters@slx-online.biz July 10th, 2022 @ 03:51 PM

  Workaround for now - I have modified existing shipping options - Free / Books UK / Books UK Large. We'll worry about international another time.

  How do I add new shipping categories, there's no link on the page to do that. I will need to add more like the Books options but for other items. I could also do with changing the Descriptions if I can't create additional ones.

  Products now populated, but I do urgently need a fix for the general settings not saving please.

  Thanks.
  Peter.

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  peters@slx-online.biz July 11th, 2022 @ 09:00 AM

  Thanks again for the updates and clarification. What you see so far is me messing around to try and fit shipping options around our very simple shop. So that there are 2 defaults comes from the system not restricting me to one only and me seeing what happens if I select more, and me confusing enabled with default.

  We have decided to only ship to UK for now, so we can get the site finished. Shipping abroad since Brexit is something of a pain, and most of the options are not needed. There's no store pickup, no UPS, EasyPost, FedEx, per weight and never will be. All I need for the foreseeable is Free and Per Item, with per item having several prices linked to specific products.

  The first shop iteration is based upon this shopping page, translated into Exponent, from which we can expand product offerings to the UK only. The person looking after sales has confirmed they have up to now had very few orders outside the UK, and we can probably handle any on an individual basis outside the system. Perhaps the intro at the top of the shop page will just say if you are wanting to order from abroad, email us.

  Your last point on the first append is kinda what I need, forcing a product to use a specific option. Free is clear. Per Item, if I'm only allowed one Per Item option, will need to have several UK only rates for now 2 but expanding later. I haven't experimented doing that yet but please could you confirm if I can do that. Ideally I would prefer a number of identical Per Item options that I can customise with one price each that I can force onto specific products, if that's do-able.

  The upcharge description is interesting. I can't see this ever being needed, nor will we need handling charges.

  I'd really like to display the shipping price on the product detail page. I guess I'll need to do that manually. People like to know what the total cost might be before adding to the cart. Sometimes you can get the same thing elsewhere for less.

  Sorry to keep coming back on this. You have created an excellent package but shipping seems a bit too complicated for simple souls like me (and simple websites...)!

  Peter.

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  peters@slx-online.biz July 14th, 2022 @ 02:55 PM

  For now we have agreed to include the postage cost with the product price, and note in the description Price + Postage. We are also staying with UK only for now. This will allow me to progress the site ready for launch. The sales person says he receives exceptionally few orders from overseas, so we can handle that manually.

  I will come back to shipping at a later date. Thanks for the help so far. Peter.