Is there NO way for a seller to manually combine shipping charges?

[pies4you]

I'm interested in upgrading from BUYER to SELLER+ but being able to manually combine shipping is important to me.

I generally use USPS Priority Mail Flat Rate envelopes and boxes. This means that for multiple items, it usually costs me the same to ship N items as it costs to ship, say, N+2 items.

For example, to send, say, 1, 4, 5, or 20 items, it usually costs me (rounding) $5, $5, $10, $10 to ship, which is the amount I'd like the buyer to pay.

If I charged $5 plus $1 for each additional item, then someone who buys 4 items pays $8 (which is $3 more than it costs to ship), someone who buys 5 pays $9 (which is $1 less than it costs to ship), and someone who buys 20 pays $24 (which is $14 more than it costs to ship). If I charged $5 plus 50 cents for each additional item, I would lose money if someone buys 6-10 items, and I don't really want any of those results.

I think it would be better all around to just charge exact postage (the packaging costs me nothing) but as far as I can tell this doesn't seem to be an option.

[JanetB]

I'm interested in upgrading from BUYER to SELLER+ but being able to manually combine shipping is important to me.

I generally use USPS Priority Mail Flat Rate envelopes and boxes. This means that for multiple items, it usually costs me the same to ship N items as it costs to ship, say, N+2 items.

For example, to send, say, 1, 4, 5, or 20 items, it usually costs me (rounding) $5, $5, $10, $10 to ship, which is the amount I'd like the buyer to pay.

If I charged $5 plus $1 for each additional item, then someone who buys 4 items pays $8 (which is $3 more than it costs to ship), someone who buys 5 pays $9 (which is $1 less than it costs to ship), and someone who buys 20 pays $24 (which is $14 more than it costs to ship). If I charged $5 plus 50 cents for each additional item, I would lose money if someone buys 6-10 items, and I don't really want any of those results.

I think it would be better all around to just charge exact postage (the packaging costs me nothing) but as far as I can tell this doesn't seem to be an option.

You can amend the shipping costs on the combined invoice you would send your customers.

[theweaverboy]

Yeah what she said.
Of course you actually have to subtract the cost for a shipping discount.
Like they buy from 5 different listing and the shipping to total is $25.
You do $5 for 1 and $1 for each additional so the the total shipping should be $9. 9-25= -$16.
Oh watch that the default might be set on % percentage. You'll have to change it to $ dollar. Whoever came up with % being default is a retard.

[JanetB]

Yeah what she said.
Of course you actually have to subtract the cost for a shipping discount.
Like they buy from 5 different listing and the shipping to total is $25.
You do $5 for 1 and $1 for each additional so the the total shipping should be $9. 9-25= -$16.
Oh watch that the default might be set on % percentage. You'll have to change it to $ dollar. Whoever came up with % being default is a retard.

Now now, behave. You were a good boy up to that point