Additional Shipping Cost Per Additional Item Purchased?

[BrantFowler]

I've seen a few threads addressing this with no real solutions save for 3rd party apps that won't work on the basic plan.

What I'm trying to do is charge customers an additional $1-7 (based on customer location) if they purchase an additional item.

For example, say one comic book costs $6 and shipping is $4. 

Then they add a second comic book. Instead of another $4, I'd like to just charge $1, with total shipping of $5 ($4 + $1)

Add 3 comic books, charge $3 extra ($1 per), bringing the total to $7 ($4 + $3) and so forth.

Is there ANY way to do this with or without an app that does NOT require CCS (which requires upgrading past the Basic plan)?

If the answer is "no," cool, but this NEEDS to be a feature. If the answer is "yes," please enlighten me!

Thanks!

[PaulNewton]

Hi @BrantFowler 👋 Isn't this just weight based shipping rates.

https://community.shopify.com/c/payments-shipping-and/how-to-add-shipping-rate-as-per-item-quantity/...

Otherwise do something like product bundles with shipping profiles.

Depending on plan availability,

There's possibly some apps that use shopify-functions to do cart transforms (expand or merge operation?, update requires shopifyPlus) to add an item to the cart or that can automatically do a bundle(to trigger a shipping profile).

Or just outright add the charges

e.g. https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/build/checkout/delivery-shipping/delivery-methods/create-local-pickup-... 

Alternatively just bake it into product costs, or do the math of how much time and revenue is involved in NOT just getting a better plan.

[BrantFowler]

Thanks for the response, Paul. 

First off, this is a client, not my site, so upgrading to a higher plan is not an option.

Second, no, it's not exactly just weight-based because they literally wanted to charge $1 for each additional item in one category, a different price for another category, etc. So one order could have had several variables that weren't tied directly to the same weight rate, if that makes sense.

But, since we couldn't find a proper solution cost-effectively or quickly (the site needed to launch this week), we did, in fact, come up with a weight-based alternative prior to seeing this response. We tossed out the dollar, etc. per and just did something close enough with weights and applied it to general instead of splitting the items up into several shipping profiles.

Regardless, I appreciate you taking the time and for your insights and suggestions.