Note that I am using Individual Shipping module...
I have tried installing two contribs: State Based Rates and Per Item Per State
State Based Rates causes errors and Per Item Per State doesn't seem to do anything... (and neither really offer me the exact solution I'm looking for).
Here is what I need:
Client has small catalog of items (6 total).
Shipping is fixed on all items (except for Alaska and Hawaii).
Some items have different fixed shipping than others (3 total shipping rates across 6 items)
So far, using the Individual Shipping contrib, I can assign each item its own shipping.
But I need to add different shipping costs if the ship to address is Alaska or Hawaii.
Is this possible? It seems like I could add a flag field in the database or something, but I was hoping a contribution would address this. The contribs mentioned above appear to be pretty old (outdated?)
Another concern I have: even if I get this working the way I want, osCom currently has only a (required) state text field - that is, not a drop-down list. So even if I can get special shipping for Alaska and Hawaii, I don't see how I can assign those values when a user can enter Alaska, AK, or misspelling in the field that needs to trigger the special shipping costs.
I'm pretty frustrated with this so far and would greatly appreciate any help/advice/direction.
Thank you.