Create a mixed system of shipping?

I made a copy of one of my products and changed the warehouse to a brand new one I created, with a brand new ups shipping module and started to gradually change parts of it to see what was going wrong. It worked just perfect at first - I deleted the variants it had and it still worked fine. Everything was ok until I created a new characteristic and added 1 variant. Then the UPS plugin would not show again - even deleting the variariant/characteristic did not make it come back - I am back where I started

On other thing - I wonder if I have a joomla problem. I just sent this message to my friends at OSTraining.com:

"I have some problems on my site that may be connected.
For quite a while I noticed that I could not use the "Joomla Update" - I would always get some kind of error message regarding getting the update file - but I could always update by downloading the update file and installing it (latest 3.4.

Also, in Akeeba Backup, I could always backup the site just fine, but when I tried to go back to a previous version by running the backup on a backup file - I had an ajax error - could not read the file. That worried me somewhat that I did not have a backup, but I recently took the backup file and installed it in a subfolder - so it still works.

Now I am running into a problem in Hikashop about ups shipping not showing up correctly and a light went on and I am wondering if they could all be connected.

I have been working unsuccessfully with hikashop and we cannot seem to fix that problem so far and have not contacted Akeeba yet.

I am wondering if I have sdome kind of Joomla problem?"
( www.ostraining.com/support-forum/joomla-...kup-update-hikashop/ )

Does this make you think of anything?

Hello,

I deleted the variants it had and it still worked fine. Everything was ok until I created a new characteristic and added 1 variant. Then the UPS plugin would not show again - even deleting the variariant/characteristic did not make it come back - I am back where I started

Can you show me how you configured your Product and its variants through some screenshots so that we can have more information about it ?
I don't think that your "Joomla Update" and UPS issue are connected, the UPS problem is only coming from the way UPS read and send your product/variant data to the UPS platform. Also, note that using the "Group package" option will probably be a good idea regarding your pricing issue.

Thank you for your help in setting up this mixed system of shipping. Many bugs are worked out, and it is working fine but I still have a few questions.

The image below is a screenshot of a sample order with:

1 - A free booklet item at the top that does not have any shipping method.
2 - Shipping area for a heavier item
3 - Shipping area for a standard flat rate shipping item
4 - The payment area

The problem is the page looks very jumbled together and customers sometimes get confused. I made some red lines between the areas in the image, but is there is anyway to make some division show up in the checkup page. A heavy line, a large space, a box around the areas? Do you have any ideas. My code writing skills are very limited, but I do a lot of cut and paste and tweaking.

Hello,
The best solution will be to directly use some CSS code customization : www.hikashop.com/support/support/documen...the-display.html#css
Or to directly edit the "Shipping" file of the "Checkout" view of your front-end template via "Hikashop->Display->Views".