Would you please help out with shipping module ?! Just a Q

[Sam-Matthews]

Hi everybody,

 

i hope you are fine,

 

My problem that i wanna add my shipping methods, but i don't know how and don't know what to do or if i need a module or no .... but anyway let's see what i have got :S

 

I Use three Shippers

 

1- Fedex

- USA & Canada: $40 for the 1st 500 gram.

 

$50 for the 1st Kg.

 

2- Express Mail Services

 

- USA: $27 for the 1st 500 gram.

 

$32.95 for the 1st Kg.

 

- Canada: $22 for the 1st 500 gram.

 

$27 for the 1st Kg.

3- Anther Company :

 

$7 for 200 gram.

 

$12 for 500 gram.

 

$20 for Kg.

 

 

 

- So i wanna it to be set as written above also i wanna write a the shipper's name so the customers can see which shipper they want to choose.

 

- i don't wanna any coflictions.

 

- i wanna know how the calculations gonna be , also where should i put the product weight ? do i include it in the product description ? or somewhere else ?

 

-and if i included it in the product desception and a customer picked up 2 items , let's say one has 100 gm and the other is 50 gm , so it means it the total should be 150 gm. will it be calculated like that or what 's gonna happen.

 

 

I see that people don't care about answering module Questions ? is it that easy , so you don't care about it :) LOL

 

 

Hope someone gonna help me finding my answers,

 

Many Thanks My Friends

 

Sam Matthews

[♥mdtaylorlrim]

Sam, I really don't know about shipping modules that much, and even less about altering the logic of the module to force it to do something it was not designed to do. As a retailer I want to offer a variety of methods that are both legal and economic, and meeting the time needs of the buyers. In order to not OVERcharge customers I use modules that produce LIVE data retrieved from the shipper. Customers do not want to pay more for shipping than it actually costs, so live quotes is the only way for me to go.

 

If your business and customer will tolerate table rates such as those you mention then the only way I see this working for you is to take the table rate module to your local computer. Copy it three times, naming each one to correspond with the three methods you choose. Then, you may have to make some edits within each to match the variable values to the name. Upload them back into your shipping modules folder and you will be able to configure each with table rates to match your business shipping model.

 

It's really not that hard to do. If you open up the modules you can study them for a short while and see just how easy it is. I copied the cod module and converted it over to a store pick up module in about 2 minutes.

Edited February 27, 2010 by mdtaylorlrim

[Sam-Matthews]

Thanks Mark you always stand by my side i do really apprecaite your efforts my friend i will try that now and get back to as soon as possible i hope it will work.

 

 

 

Many Many Thanks :)

 

Sam-Matthews

[♥mdtaylorlrim]

Copy it three times, naming each one to correspond with the three methods you choose. Then, you may have to make some edits within each to match the variable values to the name. Upload them back into your shipping modules folder and you will be able to configure each with table rates to match your business shipping model.

Oh, yeah....be sure and do this one at a time, perfecting the first before you start on teh second. As always a test storefront to try this on is the best approach.

[Sam-Matthews]

I couldn't make it my friend , you know i'm not that good in coding so would you please help me doing it or at least give me an example ... if you don't mind doing me a module for the express mail services for example ??? what do you say ?