billybrag Posted May 16, 2004 Posted May 16, 2004 can some one please explain this to me as i dont understand it Shipping rates to Zone 1 destinations based on a group of maximum order weights. Example: 3:8.50,7:10.50,... Weights less than or equal to 3 would cost 8.50 for Zone 1 destinations. "because it'll hurt more"- the greatest film of all time?
yoja Posted May 16, 2004 Posted May 16, 2004 you can define how much shipping wil cost based on the weight. so if your products weight less than 3 lb(s) the cast would be 8.5 is your product between 3.5 and 7 the cost would be 10.50 etc this you can define for as many as zones as you want. If you want to add zones, you have to edit the file in includes/modules/shipping
Guest Posted May 19, 2004 Posted May 19, 2004 This is in the zones.php file which I found extremely informative so I will include it here: $Id: zones.php,v 1.20 2003/06/15 19:48:09 thomasamoulton Exp $ osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions http://www.oscommerce.com Copyright © 2003 osCommerce Released under the GNU General Public License USAGE By default, the module comes with support for 1 zone. This can be easily changed by editing the line below in the zones constructor that defines $this->num_zones. Next, you will want to activate the module by going to the Admin screen, clicking on Modules, then clicking on Shipping. A list of all shipping modules should appear. Click on the green dot next to the one labeled zones.php. A list of settings will appear to the right. Click on the Edit button. PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU WILL LOSE YOUR CURRENT SHIPPING RATES AND OTHER SETTINGS IF YOU TURN OFF THIS SHIPPING METHOD. Make sure you keep a backup of your shipping settings somewhere at all times. If you want an additional handling charge applied to orders that use this method, set the Handling Fee field. Next, you will need to define which countries are in each zone. Determining this might take some time and effort. You should group a set of countries that has similar shipping charges for the same weight. For instance, when shipping from the US, the countries of Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore have similar shipping rates. As an example, one of my customers is using this set of zones: 1: USA 2: Canada 3: Austria, Belgium, Great Britain, France, Germany, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Holland/Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, Portugal, Israel, Greece 4: Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore 5: Taiwan, China, Hong Kong When you enter these country lists, enter them into the Zone X Countries fields, where "X" is the number of the zone. They should be entered as two character ISO country codes in all capital letters. They should be separated by commas with no spaces or other punctuation. For example: 1: US 2: CA 3: AT,BE,GB,FR,DE,GL,IS,IE,IT,NO,NL,DK,PL,ES,SE,CH,FI,PT,IL,GR 4: JP,AU,NZ,SG 5: TW,CN,HK Now you need to set up the shipping rate tables for each zone. Again, some time and effort will go into setting the appropriate rates. You will define a set of weight ranges and the shipping price for each range. For instance, you might want an order than weighs more than 0 and less than or equal to 3 to cost 5.50 to ship to a certain zone. This would be defined by this: 3:5.5 You should combine a bunch of these rates together in a comma delimited list and enter them into the "Zone X Shipping Table" fields where "X" is the zone number. For example, this might be used for Zone 1: 1:3.5,2:3.95,3:5.2,4:6.45,5:7.7,6:10.4,7:11.85, 8:13.3,9:14.75,10:16.2,11:17.65, 12:19.1,13:20.55,14:22,15:23.45 The above example includes weights over 0 and up to 15. Note that units are not specified in this explanation since they should be specific to your locale. CAVEATS At this time, it does not deal with weights that are above the highest amount defined. This will probably be the next area to be improved with the module. For now, you could have one last very high range with a very high shipping rate to discourage orders of that magnitude. For instance: 999:1000 If you want to be able to ship to any country in the world, you will need to enter every country code into the Country fields. For most shops, you will not want to enter every country. This is often because of too much fraud from certain places. If a country is not listed, then the module will add a $0.00 shipping charge and will indicate that shipping is not available to that destination. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ORDER CAN STILL BE COMPLETED AND PROCESSED! It appears that the osC shipping system automatically rounds the shipping weight up to the nearest whole unit. This makes it more difficult to design precise shipping tables. If you want to, you can hack the shipping.php file to get rid of the rounding. Lastly, there is a limit of 255 characters on each of the Zone Shipping Tables and Zone Countries.
Blowin Posted May 22, 2004 Posted May 22, 2004 I'm also having issues with this. I see that only 255 characters can go in each zone. How do I create extra zones for additional countries?
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