UPS Shipping Charges not working properly

Ok, I've got a strange one for you. I finally got the UPS shipping to pull accurate fees for the item I was adding on a website I'm working on. The problem is as soon as you change the quantity to 2 of the item the shipping charge goes from $9.90 to $28.82. When I get a quote directly from the UPS.com site I get $9.90 for the first item and then when I enter the weight for item 2 I get $13. Something's out of whack. Please let me know how to fix this or what I may be doing wrong. If you need me to submit more information please let me know what to send.

(I'm using E-Cart 5)

Thanks,
Dave

Also, I fixed the "S" in the following to "LBS" as described in another post. Didn't know if that had anything to do with it. Is there a way to fix that permanatly so I don't have to edit it each time I use the checkout wizard.

$Shipping_PackageArray[$Shipping_PackageIndex]["WeightUnits"] = "".strtoupper($eCart1->WeightUnits)."LBS" ."";

Thanks,
Dave

How do you have the number of packages setup? If you have it set to one package for the entire order rather than have two packages of similar size and weight you will have one larger package. This could be what you are seeing with the increased price.

As for adding in the LBS you should not need to do this if your cart is set to LB for the weight. The default code that is created by eCart 5 for the weight unit looks like this:

$Shipping_PackageArray[$Shipping_PackageIndex]["WeightUnits"] = "".strtoupper($eCart1->WeightUnits)."S"  ."";

You are taking the default weight unit and just adding an s to it, so if you had oz or lb as the weight unit you would end up just having an s added to the end. So the code should already work for this.

I actually tried it both ways... 1 package for whole order and ans separate packages.

Eventually I tried changing from oz to lbs in the ecart object file and it seems to be a lot closer to the right pricing.

As far as changing the "S" to "LBS", I had found that solution in another post on this forum while researching the issue. Should I change it back to "S"?

I just replaced the "LBS" with the original "S" as you mentioned and got this error...

"S is not a valid unit of measurement for weight for this shipment"

So I changes it back to LBS.

In my testing leaving the value as "S" would allow it to work without error. The eCart object sets the weight unit as "oz", "lb", or "kg" all without the "s". The code that is in the shipping quote server behavior should account for this with the following code:

$Shipping_PackageArray[$Shipping_PackageIndex]["WeightUnits"] = "".strtoupper($eCart1->WeightUnits)."S"  ."";

This code uses the eCart WeightUnits setting and adds the "S" to the end of it. If adding in the other values to this code gets it to work for you then it seems like a valid way of doing it, I'm just not sure how that is working for you, unless your code differs from the code above, or your carts WeightUnits setting is not "oz" or "lb".