How to create two different flat shipping rules

[fenryswulf]

I charge for shipping and have a flat shipping rule set up so that each additional item purchased costs 40 cents more to ship. I want to experiment with offering some of my items with free shipping and then use a flat rule to offer a discount for combined shipping. When I try to set up the flat shipping rules, I can't figure out how to have one that offers a discount and another that adds an additional fee. It seems like this should be possible but I don't see how with the way it's set up. Anyone know how to do this?

[wastingtime101]

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@fenryswulf wrote:

I want to experiment with offering some of my items with free shipping and then use a flat rule to offer a discount for combined shipping. 

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If you're offering free shipping then you cannot apply a further discount on shipping.

If you are referring to an order discount then you need to set up a promotion through your store, not a combined shipping rule.

https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/selling-tools/promotions-manager?id=4094

[fenryswulf]

I did it with a different account though, although I haven't been able to see if it works. There is an option to subtract an amount for each additional item under the flat shipping rules option and I think that is what it would do. But I can't set that up without changing my existing flat shipping rule as well, or at least that's what it looks like.