I posted this in another thread, but also wanted to post in a new one:

Hey Andy,

We are in the same boat, but need a bit different of a solution. We need to show a drop ship fee seperate from the ups or fedex rates. This would be the same as a handling fee, except the handling fee is global. We need this handling fee/drop ship fee to be by product.

Can anyone help with this. We need something ASAP!

One thing to remember - extra ship fee works for the base products but not the product variations (multiple skus of the same product). The extra ship fee is associated with the global product (the parent product). If you have multiple SKUs of the same product and if one SKU is bigger than the other and if you want to charge a different extra ship fee, thats not possible without some work. But you can definitely make it possible with a little bit of customization.

Thanks,
Satya

If you dont want this extra amount to appear as a shipping fee, are you comfortable with this extra amount appearing as a handling fee? In that case, your handing fee for the complete order will increase. This is your best bet with very little coding. Let me know if thats ok with you.

Thanks,
Satya
support @ bayquel.com

Excellent. You can try what I am writing below since you are ok that the additional fee will be applicable as overall handling fee for the order.

1. Create a new textbox field on the edit product page in BVAdmin where you can specify the additional amount for each product.
2. Store the value you enter in this textbox as a custom property on the product. The CustomProperties collection is only available for InternalProduct class which you can get by doing a currentProduct.GlobalProduct and then access the CustomProperties collection. Just add a new custom property with whatever developerID you want. You will get the hang of it when you call the Add method on the CustomProperties collection.
3. Now that you have already stored the additional handling amount for the product in a custom property for that specific product, you just need to take into account that amount when calculating the handling fee for the order. You do that by editing one the workflow step called "ApplyHandling". You can find this step under BVSoftware.BVC5.Core\BusinessRules\OrderTasks folder. All you need to do in that workflow step is this:
a. Get the current order by doing context.Order.
b. Loop through the lineitems in the current order and determine the ProductBVIN for each Line Item.
c. Retrieve the Product object corresponding to the productBVIN that you above in step b.
d. Retrieve the CustomProperty that you set for this product.
e. If that amount is valid and is not null, add it to the handling fee of the order.

You are done. As simple as that. Once done, you need to compile the core dll (in release mode :-)) and then replace your existing stock core dll in the bin folder with the newly built dll. Remember to take a backup of all files that you will modify or replace in this operation just to be on the safer side.

If you feel, this is too much for you to handle, send me an email and I can do it for you. My email address is in my signature below.

Thanks!