Special Item Shipping Charges Only within Certain States?

[DCDC]

Greetings,

Client is using v 1.38. Site is completely password protected at client's request, but is housed at wholesale.shopinhisimage.com. His retail cart is at shopinhisimage.com

Client has separate zencart for his wholesale customers. There is a shipping table set up, which works fine. However, client has some large items (concrete statues) which need to ship at a higher rate ($30 per item - regular shipping charges on the table will not apply). Furthermore, he only wants to charge the $30 extra per item to 47 states, as he personally delivers the items in a three state territory.

Is there a way this can be done through Zencart? Do I need a customized mod? If someone can direct me on the best way to go, I would sincerely appreciate it.

Client is open to other suggestions on how to handle the shipping config of these items, so if you have any suggestions on that, please pass that along as well.

Thank you in advance.

Christopher
Deer Creek Design Company

[Ajeh]

Is there anything specific that identifies these Products from other Products, such as the master_categories_id?

Or something like these Products are all in specific Categories that could be tested for against the items in the cart?

I am assuming when you say you are using a shipping table that your shipping module is the Table Rate table shipping module ... correct?

[DCDC]

Hi Linda,

Thanks so much for your response...

Yes, the statues are in their own master category. The shipping table is the Standard Shipping module table.

I'll look forward to your response (or anyone elses).

Thanks!

Christopher

[Ajeh]

You can work out the charges in the quote with:

// count how many products are in the cart from various categories
// add a new check for each categories_id to match a master_categories_id
global $cart;
$chk_cats = 0;
$chk_cats += $_SESSION['cart']->in_cart_check('master_categories_id','10');
$extra_charge = $chk_cat * 30.00;

I still have to work out the 47 states ...