TOPIC:

Hey I bought the advanced shipping by rules plugin but I cant work out the formula!!

Basically, I want a shipping fee that is weight less than or equal to 5 is R50 and R3.50 per kilogramme there after, the next shipping method I need is same as the above but with 2% of total cos of cart as shipping insurance.

If I do it in php the first one is as follows:

<?php
$result = $this->product->product_weight;
$mshipping = 50;

if ($result <=5) {echo "Shipping Estimate Main Centre: R" .$mshipping;}
else {echo "Shipping Estimate Main Center: R" . ($mshipping + 3.50*($result-5)) ;}

?>

But I am battling to convert this into your plugin, could you possibly help?

If you want the user to choose from shipping without insurance and shipping with insurance, you need to set up two shipping methods with the advanced Shipping by Rules plugin. The first ("Shipping without Insurance") will have the two rulesand the second ("Shipping with Insurance") will have the rules
Of couse, you can try to combine the below and above 5kg rules into one by using max(weight-5,0) in the rule:The max function will return 0 for all orders below 5 kg, and the kg above 5kg for all other orders. So both cases (<5 and >5kg) are correctly handled.