Shipping surcharge

[knifeman]

Hi all,

 

I am contemplating expanding my sales to Canada. I have shipped some orders already, but my shop is not set up to charge the extra shipping. I am not sure if I should install the zones in admin or if I need a contrib like shipping surcharge.

 

I currently use a table rate based upon total dollars spent for anywhere in the US. I want to add $4 to the table rate shipping charge for orders to Canada. I do not have any shipping mods installed (USPS, UPS, fedex, etc) and I do not have product weights entered in the DB.

 

Rather than start installing and uninstalling until I find the right one, i was hoping someone could tell me from experience which way would be best to accomplish the surcharge.

 

Thanks,

Tim

[knifeman]

Well, I tried the shipping surcharge mod, but could not make it add a surcharge. I hope you are online Jack. This was in the instructions:

Try to place an order. If the country of the test account is not

listed in the country field in the admin section of this

contribution, a surcharge will be applied.

I had the US only listed, but could not get an order from CA to have a charge added to it. If it were working, how would I add 2 payment types? Like this? money order, credit card. Oh yeah, I also made sure to sort the order total to 5 and the surcharge to 4. I think this mod will suit my needs if i can make it work.

 

I tried installing zones from admin, but just as I feared, it only works if you have weights for all the products. Plus it gave me a choice between the low US rate and the higher zone rate for CA. I am sure my customers will choose the low rate and negate having the zone rate installed.