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    Formula to work out postage costs

    I'm trying to make a sheet which calculates my profits on the work I offer for sale on Etsy but I'm stuck on working out the postage. I want to be able to choose which postage service I want to use and the packaging size, and have Excel tell me how much it will cost. I have a table of different postage costs and services on a separate sheet, and drop down menus with postage service and size on my main sheet. Can anyone help please?

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    Re: Formula to work out postage costs

    Attach your file. We need to see the table of postage costs and services. See yellow banner at the top of the page.
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    Re: Formula to work out postage costs

    Sorry, I missed that... It's very basic atm, I figured I'd start with the hardest bit lol! The idea is to select shipping destination, then shipping type, and have the price appear in the actual shipping costs cell.
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    Re: Formula to work out postage costs

    You have not done this bit:

    ... and some manually calculated results.
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    Re: Formula to work out postage costs

    I want to be able to select eg EU on the destination, small parcel 2nd class 2kg tracked on the shipping type and have the £15.25 that is in the c10 cell on the postage sheet populate the actual shipping costs cell on the costs sheet.

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    Re: Formula to work out postage costs

    Add a few examples to the currently EMPTY table and then post the workbook again, please.

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    Re: Formula to work out postage costs

    Try

    =IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("tracked",$G2)),INDEX(Postage!$B$3:$E$16,MATCH($G2,Postage!$A$3:$A$16,0),MATCH($F2,Postage!$B$1:$E$1,0)),INDEX(Postage!$H$3:$K$16,MATCH($G2,Postage!$G$3:$G$16,0),MATCH($F2,Postage!$H$1:$K$1,0)))
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    Re: Formula to work out postage costs

    I've added some information in the cells, but what I want to do is to be able to populate cell H1, H2 etc with the data in the postage sheet that corresponds with the shipping destination and the shipping type I select from the drop down list in the Costs sheet.
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    Re: Formula to work out postage costs

    Quote Originally Posted by JohnTopley View Post
    Try

    =IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("tracked",$G2)),INDEX(Postage!$B$3:$E$16,MATCH($G2,Postage!$A$3:$A$16,0),MATCH($F2,Postage!$B$1:$E$1,0)),INDEX(Postage!$H$3:$K$16,MATCH($G2,Postage!$G$3:$G$16,0),MATCH($F2,Postage!$H$1:$K$1,0)))
    That works prefectly, thank you so much!!

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    Re: Formula to work out postage costs

    See #7

    Added Data Validation for all shipping types
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    Re: Formula to work out postage costs

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    Re: Formula to work out postage costs

    I added it in the wrong post.. d'oh! It's a long time since I used forums!!! I'll mark this thread as solved now. Once again, thank you. I'm now off to deconstruct how the formula works so I can use it elsewhere too lol

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