Magento shipping depends on who and where - but how?

Question

I'm looking to set up shipping rates in our store which are based on customer type and location.

A wholesale customer will be charged £6 An oversees customer will be charged £3 A UK 'normal' customer will get free delivery.

No doubt I'll have to program this myself but some guidance would be appreciated as to which module I should be playing with and what variables I need to get hold of - (for example, I know I can get customer type with

$groupId = Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getCustomerGroupId();

Answer 1

This is quite simple with a community extension.

I recommand Owebia Shipping 2 that's free and easy to configure. You can specify shipping price by :

-destination -customer group -product attributes (size, weight, categories, ...) -cart attributes (price, weight, qty, ...) etc.