Guest Posted May 31, 2004 Share Posted May 31, 2004 Hi all - I have ocs up and running fine (aside from some other minor tweaks I still need to do cosmetically). My question(s) are these: 1) Is there a way to set unique shipping options for each product individually (or by groups of products)? I did look in the conrtib section and saw there was something there, but it stated that if you use that contrib you wouldn't be able to use any other shipping contribs. That might be an issue because I might need to also offer free shipping for certain products (unless just using a shipping cost of 0 would work for an individual product). 2) I installed the USPS shipping module and opened an account at usps.com/webtools. I have the .pdf documentation they supply to run tests against their test server, and it seems that they may have changed the return values from the test server. If you run the test XML calls that are supposed to generate errors, they do properly, but the test calls that are supposed to be valid give what seems to be an error-type msg. like 'That has not been set up on the test server.' It seems like they maybe disabled the full Rate web tool so you couldn't pull actual shipping rates off the test server? This causes a problem because osc has a standard error msg. for USPS shipping if rate info is not returned, so there is no way to determine if an acutal error is being generated or if is it just USPS's test server issue. I guess what I am looking for ultimately is this: Product A would show a shipping cost of $x with a shipping option of USPS; Product B would be a shipping cost of $y with ashipping options of UPS ot USPS, Product C would show a shipping cost of $0 (free shipping), etc. Any ideas? I did so a search through the forums, and I know free shipping was covered, but I didn't really see anything covering something like this. Thanks in advance! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 31, 2004 Share Posted May 31, 2004 Ok, after reading some other posts, the first part of issue #2 seems to be a standard thing... the test server doesn't really work with ocs as far as returning sample rate data to see rates. Since that's normal, I'll just have USPS bump me over to prod to see how it shapes up there. I guess no thoughts though on my other issues? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Stein, VisiBone Posted June 1, 2004 Share Posted June 1, 2004 Hey, I'm working on similar stuff -- putting shipping complexity into osCommerce. Briefly, certain combinations of my products require multiple packages, and I'd like to charge more for that. I'm sure I'm looking at some PHP programming to get it right. Good luck I'll be watching here what you find. Thanks for the clue on USPS. I too am getting the osc error message: "An error occured with the USPS shipping calculations. If you prefer to use USPS as your shipping method, please contact the store owner." It's nice to know things just plain don't work with the USPS test servers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 2, 2004 Share Posted June 2, 2004 Well, after looking through the contribs again, I found this: Multi Vendor Shipping As per the description: This module allows you to assign a shipping method to each product. This will allow you to have an order containing items that ship by multiple methods and still calculate an accurate shipping rate So... this is actually very close to what I am looking for. I'm going to give it a shot and see how it goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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