Making shipping options dependant on price or weight

[commdiver]

Is there a way to allow a shipping option to only appear if customers checkout for a certain price? I sell soaps. I would like to offer customers the option to select a flat rate if they only order one bar of soap. For example, if I wanted to offer Fed Ex ground to anyone purchasing something more than $100 or weighing more than ten pounds, how would I do that (just an example, I actually want to use a flat rate)?

Is there a way to do this? Thank you for any help.

[Ajeh]

The display of the shipping modules is controlled by the:
$this->enabled

in each module ...

You can test the shopping cart and based on the Total and Weight control the settings of the $this->enabled to turn them on and off ...

What shipping modules are you actually using?

You might also look at the threads at the bottom of this one for examples ...

[commdiver]

The display of the shipping modules is controlled by the:
$this->enabled

in each module ...

You can test the shopping cart and based on the Total and Weight control the settings of the $this->enabled to turn them on and off ...

What shipping modules are you actually using?

You might also look at the threads at the bottom of this one for examples ...

I am using the USPS shipping module.

Where do I find "$this->enabled"? I want to use flat.php for flat rate. I want the flat rate to be $5, but I want the shipping module to only appear if the order is below $X.YZ. The reason being, one bar of soap will ship in a small flat rate USPS box, but ten will obviously not fit in the $5 small flat rate box.

Thank you for the help so far

[commdiver]

I guess I could just use the Per Item shipping module. I still would like to know how to hide it, though. I do not want someone with a large order seeing a really high shipping charge.

[Ajeh]

If you look at some of the related topics below this thread, you should see you can use something like:

Example, to not show when weight is less than 20 ...

if (IS_ADMIN_FLAG == false && $_SESSION['cart']->show_weight() < 20) {
  $this->enabled = false;
} else {
  $this->enabled = true;
}

This code would be placed, for example, in the Flat Rate flat shipping module for:
/includes/modules/shipping/flat.php

just below the code:

      // disable only when entire cart is free shipping
      if (zen_get_shipping_enabled($this->code)) {
        $this->enabled = ((MODULE_SHIPPING_FLAT_STATUS == 'True') ? true : false);
      }