I want to set up 2 UK shipping zones:
Mainland UK
UK Highlands and Islands
They will have different rates. What should I enter for the Zones Code? Can they both be UK? Should they be different?
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I want to set up 2 UK shipping zones:
Mainland UK
UK Highlands and Islands
They will have different rates. What should I enter for the Zones Code? Can they both be UK? Should they be different?
I must say I'm finding the Zen Cart shipping setup incredibly complex. Here's all I need:
(1) Shipping to Mainland UK - orders over 50 GBP = free
(2) Shipping to Mainland UK - orders less than 50 GBP = FLAT RATE 5.95 GBP + VAT
(3) Shipping to UK Highlands & Islands = FLAT RATE 19.95 GBP + VAT
(4) Shipping to Eire = FLAT RATE 27.50 GBP + VAT
I've been bouncing around the WIKI and search and Admin Locations/Taxes for a few hours and I'm none the wiser. Could someone please explain how to go about this? Countries, Zone Definitions, Zones, etc. Some assistance would be much appreciated.
Best regards,
Patrick
In the Zone Shipping Module you are using the 2 character ISO code ...
United Kingdom 2 character ISO code for the country ( countries_iso_code_2 ) is GB not UK ... :eeks:
However ...
You are trying to specify not a Country but a peice of the country ... :unsure:
You may need to pick a Shipping Module closest to what you want to do and clone it ...
As in clone Flat flat Shipping Module to:
flatukmain
flatukhigh
etc.
Then you would need to customize the Order Total Module for Shipping so that you can further control the Free Shipping based on building a Zone for Free Shipping ...
Thanks for taking a look, and I've reset UK to GB. As regards cloning flat rates, I don't know how to do this.
But I've noticed that sub zones can be set up Zone Definitions. So now, in Zone Definitions, I have:
(1) Tax Zones: GB | Zone Description: United Kingdom
(2) Tax Zones: IE | Zone Description: Southern Ireland
and when I click the GB Tax Zone I see:
(1) Country: United Kingdom | Zone: Mainland UK
(2) Country: United Kingdom | Zone: UK Highlands and Islands
In Zones, I have:
(1) Country: Ireland | Zones: Eire | Code: IE
(2) Country: United Kingdom | Zones: Mainland UK | Code: GB
(3) Country: United Kingdom | Zones: UK Highlands and Islands | Code: GB
I don't understand the difference between Zone Definitions and Zones, and how they fit together with Tax Zones. It's all very confusing to a newcomer like me.
In the Shipping Module: Zone Rates there are three Zone Rate tables. I presume I can simulate a flat rate in a shipping table with 9999:27.50 (27.50 GBP for anything less than 9999 GB purchase price).
Am I getting anywhere? What I can't find is a full explanation of how these settings all work together, so at present it's just a long process of trial and error without even knowing if the end result is actually possible.
Patrick
Also, in Shipping Modules -> Zone Rates there are three Zones available, but it seems that only tables for countries can be entered, not zones within countries. So how would I specify different rates for different parts of one country?
Patrick
I've set up a Shipping Module clone for flat as flatukmainland (followed the instructions off these forums) and then installed it and enabled it, but the little green blob does not go green. When I attempt to make a purchase the cart just says "Sorry, we are not shipping to your region at this time."Quote:
Originally Posted by Ajeh
Is it really so complicated, trying to set up different shipping rates for two zones within one Country? This should be easy as pie, but it is not.
I'm close to giving up altogether.
Have a look at the sql patch in Kevin Polley's UK Template as this will give you a few more ideas on how to set up UK zones.
Also Dreamscape's MultiGeoZone MultiTable Shipping is very good.
Searching the forums for either of these will also throw up numerous posts with some detailed answers to help you along. Don't exclude the Archived threads as there are also many good posts in there that are still applicable.
Hope that helps.
Brent
Thanks Brent.
MultiGeoZone MultiTable Shipping looks interesting. I'll have a good look at that, but I still can't believe it's so complicated just to set up 2 flat shipping rates for within the UK. Zen Cart is so smart in other respects, but this shipping thing... and I see others have had the same issues in the past, with no apparent solution put forward.
Patrick
Patrick,
I'd strongly recommend you download the 'Big Royal Mail' contribution, not to use the Royal Mail per se, but because it has an optional Courier module which does indeed divide the UK into mainland UK and Scotland/the Islands.
More importantly, it has a PDF document in its docs folder which addresses your problem and how to attack it.
Regardless of whether it is usable or not, I would first setup the 3 zones you require and get them working, then add the freeoptions module for the free over GBP50 orders, since your zones will then be correctly defined.
Also, possibly start with the Eire zone since that seems to have the least customisation.
Good Luck!
Rgds,
Chuckl
Chuckl, thanks for that. I'll try it as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chuckl
Best regards,
Patrick