International shipping question

[paulrus]

I'm sure this has been covered before, so if someone with experience in this wants to talk to me directly by email that would be great.

 

Our shop has been online since last June (using the 2.2CVS June snapshot). We're currently using the International USPS contribution for shipping, but we've had some problems. First, it only handles parcel post and global express shipping - many customers have requested sea-mail (whatever it's called) 1-2 month shipping. Second, many customers have requested insurance and tracking numbers - the International USPS contribution can't do that.

 

Has anyone else dealt with this situation? We only ship to Japan, so we really only need to set up shipping from the US to Japan. I've never used the Zones module, but could I set up multiple versions of Zones for each type of shipping & weight?

 

Thanks,

 

Paul

[Parikesit]

Our shop has been online since last June (using the 2.2CVS June snapshot).  

 

I write a shipping module contribution. Maybe it's suitable for your need:

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,244

[gnehc]

Paul,

 

If you only ship to Japan ... you could probably forgo the entire

USPS International Shipping contribution and just use a TABLE rate.

You can reference all the different pricing from their website and

if your products are weighted by LBS ... just set it appropriately in

the TABLE RATE section (for surface mail).

 

For 'confirmation', you know the set fee for confirmation when you

ship ... so, you could probably link off of a product that says 'shipping

confirmation' -> add to cart ... insurance could probably go along

the same lines ... but probably code some logic to calculate their

insurance rate to add into their shopping cart .....

 

I'm actually trying to find a much cheaper way to ship overseas ... :)

Shipping 1/2lb (or lighter) parcels with USPS isn't very economical at

all ... but then, i haven't found any alternatives yet.

 

I'm sure this has been covered before, so if someone with experience in this wants to talk to me directly by email that would be great.

 

Our shop has been online since last June (using the 2.2CVS June snapshot).  We're currently using the International USPS contribution for shipping, but we've had some problems.  First, it only handles parcel post and global express shipping - many customers have requested sea-mail (whatever it's called) 1-2 month shipping.  Second, many customers have requested insurance and tracking numbers - the International USPS contribution can't do that.

 

Has anyone else dealt with this situation?  We only ship to Japan, so we really only need to set up shipping from the US to Japan.  I've never used the Zones module, but could I set up multiple versions of Zones for each type of shipping & weight?

 

Thanks,

 

Paul

[paulrus]

A table seems like the way to go, but how would I handle multiple shipping options - Global Express (EMS), Airmail, Parcel Post and Surface Mail? It seems like table shipping only gives me one option - weight+price.

 

I tried downloading the revised table module, but it is simply too new and doesn't work with my June 2002 snapshot.

 

Thanks!

 

Paul

[Guest]

Paul,

 

You can simply copy the table method as many times as you have types. Just name each new version a different name...etc. In fact in your orginal download there is a tep_docs folder, there isn't much in it but there is a very good tutorial on creating a new shipping module.