store for gift basket delivery presents unique issues

[webdev2]

In this gift basket delivery service, there are features unique to this business:

- customers are charge the standard delivery fee is they order from vendors in a 6 mile mile radius of the delivery address

- outside this radius, there is a surcharge

- a delivery fee is charged PER VENDOR, not per basket purchased

 

For example, you can buy two baskets from ABC vendor and one basket from ZYX vendor and there would be two delivery fees - one for each vendor.

 

Any ideas how to do this in osCommerce? (I might have to build a custom application but I don't want to reinvent the wheel if I can help it)

 

Many thanks.

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In this gift basket delivery service, there are features unique to this business:

- customers are charge the standard delivery fee is they order from vendors in a 6 mile mile radius of the delivery address

- outside this radius, there is a surcharge

- a delivery fee is charged PER VENDOR, not per basket purchased

 

For example, you can buy two baskets from ABC vendor and one basket from ZYX vendor and there would be two delivery fees - one for each vendor.

 

Any ideas how to do this in osCommerce? (I might have to build a custom application but I don't want to reinvent the wheel if I can help it)

 

Many thanks.

 

you might be able to integrate a map system like google-maps so that you can get the distance in miles from that. As for changing the shipping, that might have to be a custom module built based off of said map system. It's just an idea I was brainstorming. ;-)