Shipping Calculator

[onestop_shop]

The shipping calculator starts in kg. instead of g. making it unuseable.

[flipistics]

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@onestop_shop wrote:

The shipping calculator starts in kg. instead of g. making it unuseable.

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Works fine with decimals (as long as you have a leading 0).

[marnotom!]

The Canada Post website's shipping calculator is also calibrated in kilograms, yet thousands of shippers are able to ship items weighing less than a kilogram.  Every day.

As @flipistics says, you have to express the item's weight as a fraction of a kilogram in decimal form, ensuring that you supply a leading zero before the decimal.  Is this not working for you?

[lotzofuniquegoodies]

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@onestop_shop wrote:

The shipping calculator starts in kg. instead of g. making it unuseable.

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@onestop_shop 

@marnotom! 

Whoever programmed the new calculator chose to use 2 points for grams.  0.20 vs 200 grams. 

Revert to the listing tool and there is a box for kg and a box grams with 3 place holders. This can make a difference when it comes to rounding up or down. 

Go to ship your order it is now a choice between grams or kg. Format being #.##. Not #.###

The old calculator was NOT formatted this way. It was set up correctly. What happens when a programmer is unfamilar with metric.

See screenshot for a normal calculater with Canada Post. Highlighted section to clarify what happens if you use the incorrect format. 

[reallynicestamps]

Move the decimal point.

Start with a zero.

So a 10 g item would be 0.01kg.