Thread: order weight

I have been unsuccessful at tracking down where the order total weight is calculated that is passed to fedex for rtshipping (fedex.cs). It says package.Weight but when I look that up, it just loops through all items and doesn't omit ones flagged as freeshipping. I must be looking in the wrong place. Any suggestions?

If there is even one item that isn't free shipping, then the weight must be totaled including free shipping items unless the free shipping items are also flagged as ship separately (I'm guessing).

So if you have an item that is marked as freeshipping, and one that isn't, it sends the total weight of both items to fedex for a rate request? How does that make the item free shipping?

FedEx will still need to know the weight of the box, no matter how it is charged. I would have to step through the code to see all that is going on, but I would expect there would be two calls to the service, one for free shipping items and one for all items and then the difference be used to know what to charge the customer. However, the ASPDNSF folks may not be doing it that way. I actually flag everything in my store as ship separately so that I get more accurate result on pricing and if the estimates are off, they are a little high so I don't loose money on shipping.

I can understand why they did it this way. I just need to find where I can throw in some logic to take out the weight of items marked as freeshipping and another value. I thought this would be in Shipping.cs but i'm not seeing it

I would just mark them as ship separately. That should fix the problem.