Jump to content
  • Checkout
  • Login
  • Get in touch

osCommerce

The e-commerce.

Recommended Posts

Posted

My apologies in advance, I'm new to PHP and OSCOMMERCE, so please excuse my ignorance. I have a client who is selling bulk commercial chemicals. If the total weight of the order is less than 150lbs, they want to use UPS (no problem), but if the weight is over 150lbs, on the checkout page they want a message displayed telling the customer that they will contact the customer to finalize the order in order to provide them the best pricing for shipping. I've found the code in includes/classes/shipping.php that checks if the total weight of the order exceeds SHIPPING_MAX_WEIGHT, but I'm unsure how to change it to get the result I want. I looked through the Shipping Contribs and I didn't see anything like this - does anyone know if there is anything out there that will do this, or at least point me in the right direction as to what to do? Many thanks in advance.

Posted

I have a similar dilemma. I see the solution to the problem almost the same but instead of weight based, mine would be locale based. A solution could be to generate a quote; the order would be edited to add appropriate shipping, then notify the customer that thier quote is ready. The customer would then "buy" the quote? Our US domestic orders can go right through paypal but international orders will have variable shipping costs and do not want the customer to have to jump through a bunch of hoops to order product.

 

Thoughts?

 

-ej

  • 9 months later...
Posted (edited)
I have a similar dilemma. I see the solution to the problem almost the same but instead of weight based, mine would be locale based. A solution could be to generate a quote; the order would be edited to add appropriate shipping, then notify the customer that thier quote is ready. The customer would then "buy" the quote? Our US domestic orders can go right through paypal but international orders will have variable shipping costs and do not want the customer to have to jump through a bunch of hoops to order product.

 

Thoughts?

 

-ej

 

POSSIBLE SOLUTION:

 

I put together an option on my store for freight quotes and international orders. I added a new shipping and payment module with the option "Request for Quote".

 

The customer registers, and than can (1) pay for the item and request a freight quote, or (2) processes the request without payment of either. The request then shows up as a processing order, and we can contact them with a price and shipping quote via email etc.

 

The final payment is made the old fashioned way, via phone, fax, and mail. etc., since freight and international orders have too many variables to automate the process.

 

If anyone has interest in this option, I’ll package up the contribution and post it

 

- Dan

Edited by Naegle
Posted
POSSIBLE SOLUTION:

 

I put together an option on my store for freight quotes and international orders. I added a new shipping and payment module with the option "Request for Quote".

 

The customer registers, and than can (1) pay for the item and request a freight quote, or (2) processes the request without payment of either. The request then shows up as a processing order, and we can contact them with a price and shipping quote via email etc.

 

The final payment is made the old fashioned way, via phone, fax, and mail. etc., since freight and international orders have too many variables to automate the process.

 

If anyone has interest in this option, I?ll package up the contribution and post it

 

- Dan

 

Have you posted this option yet?

Posted
Have you posted this option yet?

 

You can find the contribution here....

REQUEST FOR QUOTE

 

Let me know if any changes are needed. Its been a while since I wrote this, so hopefully I have everything included. Regardless, its a fairly simple contribution.

 

GOOD LUCK! :thumbsup:

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
×
  • Create New...