Magento Shipping the same for certain quantity

Question

I would like to make it so that a certain quantity of a product has the same exact shipping price and when the quantity goes over the threshold, the shipping price doubles.

For example, for product X, the shipping price is Y for quantities 1-12. For 13-24, the shipping price is Yx2, for 25-36, it's Yx3 and so on.

The reason for this is the manufacturer considers anything in a box of 12 (whether it actually has 12 or not in there) is a certain "weight" (the weight is how much it would be if it was 12 products, even if there is less than 12 products in there).

To make thing a little more difficult, the shipping is not a flat rate throughout the website. Each product has a different weight and needs to be calculated differently from one another.

I hope this makes sense. It's very hard to explain over text. I'm new to Magento so I have no idea how to start looking for a solution.

Answer 1

Create your own shipping method following this tutorial.
in the collectRates of your module you need to put the logic for calculating the shipping price.

You can access the items in the shopping cart like this:

$request->getAllItems(); 

where $request is the parameter you receive for the collectRates method.

You can do something like this (untested):

$price = 0;
foreach ($request->getAllItems() as $item) {
    //exclude duplicate items from the configurable products
    if ($item->getParentItemId()) {
       continue;
    }
    $qty = $item->getQty();
    $factor = (int)(($qty - 1) / 12) + 1; //this should give you the correct number of boxes but please check again
    $productShippingPrice = include logic here to determine the shipping price for one product or one box.
    //add shipping price to total
    $price += $productShippingPrice * $factor;

}
//add the price to the shipping method. See who `$method` is in the tutorial
$method->setPrice($price);

Answer 2

Please follow this link: https://magento2.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/m1wiki/pages/14024848/Create+a+Shipping+Method+Module

It may solve your issue.