SHIPPING - Can someone explain

[Huski]

The shipping section is confusing. I sort of get something working, but only for one zone.

What I need to do is the following (and can someone explain in non tech speak if possible as not a php programmer if that is required)

1. Have a number of costs per item weight (have a number of weight categories) that doesn't matter where the buyer is from (in Australia). Do I set up a table rate for this. Also, I might have to set rates based on the states of Australia - or zones. Do I set up Australia as one zone within country Australia for now or set up each individual state as a zone of Australia.

2. I also ship internationally - how do I set this up as every country has different costs per weight category. Ie. New Zealand has one set of prices, US/CA has another, UK has its own, France, etc. How do I set up zones for each of these as it seems to only let me set up one zone for shipping.

Hopefully thats clear. Thanks.

[jpf]

Most of the included shipping methods are a template for what is possible - there are MANY other options.
Examples:
Australian Shipping Module
Additional Shipping Options for Zone Module
MultiRegion MultiTable Shipping

ZONE.PHP is defaulted to a single zone - by editing it to ADD additional zones. OR by DUPLICATE (rename and change database & other variable name and in LANGUAGE file to differentiate)

[Huski]

Thanks for reply

How do you add additional zones by editing the zone.php file?

Cheers

[jpf]

Read the file.....there is allot of notes.

[Huski]

Hi

I opened up the file zone.php in the includesmodulesshippingzones.php and updated the line $this->num_zones = 1; to $this->num_zones = 10;

In the admin site under shipping zones, it adds a bunch of text boxes which is obviously the 10 zones I said it should have BUT, there are no labels for the boxes so the client needs to guess, and when you input data for the zones in these new text boxes and click update, they are either not being saved to the database or they are not being displayed in the admin site. Very confusing especially when it says in the notes in the file that adding multiple zones is as simple as changing the line above. Its not.

Also, do you have to go and set up a zone for each country or because the country still exists, can I just use the country code?

Pulling my hair out - sorry - but client nagging me.

Cheers

[Huski]

Can anyone help....

[ridexbuilder]

2. I also ship internationally - how do I set this up as every country has different costs per weight category. Ie. New Zealand has one set of prices, US/CA has another, UK has its own, France, etc. How do I set up zones for each of these as it seems to only let me set up one zone for shipping.

An example zones table, for 4 zones, shipping from Japan to numerous counties (EMS shipping rates - probably outdated):

BD,BT,BN,KH,CN,GU,HK,IN,ID,KR,LA,MO,MY,MV,MN,MM,NP,PK,PH,SG,LK,TW,VN 
0.3:900,0.5:1100,0.6:1240,0.7:1380,0.8:1520,0.9:1660,1.0:1800,1.25:2100,1.5:2400,1.75:2700,2.0:3000,2.5:3500,3.0:4000,3.5:4500,4.0:5000,4.5:5500,5.0:6000,5.5:6500,6.0:7000,7.0:7800,8.0:8600,9.0:9400,10.0:10200,11.0:11000,12.0:11800,13.0:12600,14.0:13400,15.0:14200,16.0:15000,17.0:15800,18.0:16600,19.0:17400,20.0:18200,21.0:19000,22.0:19800,23.0:20600,24.0:21400,25.0:22200,26.0:23000,27.0:23800,28.0:24600,29.0:25400,30.0:26200 
 
AU,FJ,NC,NZ,PG,SB,BB,CA,CR,CU,SV,HN,JM,MX,PA,TT,US,BH,CY,IR,IQ,JO,KW,OM,QA,SA,SY,TR,AE 
0.3:1200,0.5:1500,0.6:1680,0.7:1860,0.8:2040,0.9:2220,1.0:2400,1.25:2800,1.5:3200,1.75:3600,2:4000,2.5:4700,3.0:5400,3.5:6100,4.0:6800,4.5:7500,5.0:8200,5.5:8900,6.0:9600,7.0:10700,8.0:11800,9.0:12900,10.0:14000,11.0:15100,12.0:16200,13.0:17300,14.0:18400,15.0:19500,16.0:20600,17.0:21700,18.0:22800,19.0:23900,20.0:25000,21.0:26100,22.0:27200,23.0:28300,24.0:29400,25.0:30500,26.0:31600,27.0:32700,28.0:33800,29.0:34900,30.0:36000 
 
AT,AZ,BY,BE,BG,CZ,HR,DK,EE,FI,FR,DE,GR,HU,IS,IE,IT,LV,LI,LT,LU,MK,MT,NL,NO,PL,PT,RO,RU,SK,SI,ES,SE,CH,UA,GB 
0.3:1500,0.5:1800,0.6:2000,0.7:2200,0.8:2400,0.9:2600,1.0:2800,1.25:3250,1.5:3700,1.75:4150,2.0:4600,2.5:5400,3.0:6200,3.5:7000,4.0:7800,4.5:8600,5.0:9400,5.5:10200,6.0:11000,7.0:12300,8.0:13600,9.0:14900,10.0:16200,11.0:17500,12.0:18800,13.0:20100,14.0:21400,15.0:22700,16.0:24000,17.0:25300,18.0:26600,19.0:27900,20.0:29200,21.0:30500,22.0:31800,23.0:33100,24.0:34400,25.0:35700,26.0:37000,27.0:38300,28.0:39600,29.0:40900,30.0:42200 
 
AR,BR,CL,CO,EC,PY,PE,UY,VE,DZ,BW,CI,DJ,EG,ET,GA,GH,KE,MG,MU,MA,NG,RW,SN,SL,ZA,SD,TZ,TG,TN,UG,ZW 
0.3:1700,0.5:2100,0.6:2440,0.7:2780,0.8:3120,0.9:3460,1.0:3800,1.25:4600,1.5:5400,1.75:6200,2.0:7000,2.5:8500,3.0:10000,3.5:11500,4.0:13000,4.5:14500,5.0:16000,5.5:17500,6.0:19000,7.0:21100,8.0:23200,9.0:25300,10.0:27400,11.0:29500,12.0:31600,13.0:33700,14.0:35800,15.0:37900,16.0:40000,17.0:42100,18.0:44200,19.0:46300,20.0:48400,21.0:50500,22.0:52600,23.0:54700,24.0:56800,25.0:58900,26.0:61000,27.0:63100,28.0:65200,29.0:67300,30.0:69400

Note: due to the size of the table values and the number of zones, this required getting 'hands dirty' with mySQL.
Also note: this was part of an extensive install, that I was paid for (for a change)

[Huski]

Hi thanks for the reply

Got the data read to go in notepad. Only thing is when I did what the previous posts mentioned, I included 10 zones, and it showed each one as a text box ( x 3 for each destination) which they said in the notes in the php code was simply all you had to do - but - there are no labels showing for these text boxes and they don't save any data - so was wondering how I could fix that up and at least that would get me going in the short term.

Cheers

[ridexbuilder]

As stated above...

Note: due to the size of the table values and the number of zones, this required getting 'hands dirty' with mySQL.

and a touch of php, if I recall.

You'll have fun using that table verbatim, as it's in Kgs and Yen.

[Huski]

Too dirty for me - back to the drawing board to find a simpler solution to my postage needs