Optional Shipping Insurance Module [Support Thread]

Hi

Nice mod, but I have a wee problem which I need to sort out. Any help appreciated

I have a local sales tax that I need to apply to shipping insurance. Currently this mod shows the tax inclusive amount in the Order Confirmation screen. This is ok when shipping outside of my stores zone, but local regulations state that I must clearly show the amount of local sales tax being charged. In my case I see:

Sub-Total: $100.00
Flat Rate shipping: $7.50
Shipping Insurance: $11.50
Sales Tax @15%: $16.12
TOTAL : $135.12

So the Sales tax is not showing the $1.50 of sales tax included in the shipping insurance.

For "in-zone" orders I really need to see:
Sub-Total: $100.00
Flat Rate shipping: $7.50
Shipping Insurance: $10.00
Sales Tax @15%: $17.62
TOTAL : $135.12

For "out-of-zone" or international orders I dont need to charge sales tax on the goods, but I am still charged sales tax on the shipping and insurance. Really need to see
Sub-Total: $100.00
Flat Rate shipping: $11.50
Shipping Insurance: $11.50
TOTAL : $131.50

Note that in this case the shipping amount goes up.

Er um... help please :)

Why do you need to charge sales tax on shipping insurance? Do you make a profit on it? Normally you don't charge sales tax on shipping or shipping insurance unless you are making a profit on that.



I also have a question. Does anyone have GoogleCheckout installed? If so, how does that work with this mod? Is the shipping insurance cost passed on to GoogleCheckout just fine?

Thanks.

Hi,

Anyone been able to get optional insurance working for any country apart from the one the store is in? When delivering locally insurance is not available with my provider, however when delivering internationally it is.
:blink:
Ta

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Originally Posted by MortalWombat

When a customer goes through checkout with the insurance included on their order, and then applies a discount coupon, the percentage is deducted from the insurance as well as from the order sub-total.

Does anyone have a way to prevent this?

Thanks,
Tija

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Did you ever find a resolution for this? I'm having the same issue, as well as one other.

When I pay for my test order in full with a gift certificate, the shipping insurance is not deducted from the gift certificate amount, and a balance for the insurance is ending up showing owed in the total.

Example: Subtotal is 14.95. No Sales Tax. Shipping Insurance is 1.40. I have a gift certificate balance of 25.00. In the Gift Certificate area of the check out, I apply 16.35 of my Gift Certificate Account balance to the order. I click "Continue Checkout". The OT balance on the next page should be zero, but it's 1.40 - the amount of the shipping insurance.

I'm having this same issue with Priority Handling Fee - but that's another mod that unfortunately doesn't seem to have a support thread.

For whatever reason, the fees from neither of these mods can be paid for with a Gift Certificate, and coupons deduct from them separately from the OT.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

I'm not looking at this at all because I'm working overtime from another PC, but I wonder if perhaps changing the sort order of the order total modules will resolve this.. In other words I wonder if moving the shipping insurance's sort order above the gift certificate's sort order that it will apply the gift certificate to the shipping insurance.. (I think this is what I understand it is you want to have happen)

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Originally Posted by ScriptJunkie

Did you ever find a resolution for this? I'm having the same issue, as well as one other.

When I pay for my test order in full with a gift certificate, the shipping insurance is not deducted from the gift certificate amount, and a balance for the insurance is ending up showing owed in the total.

Example: Subtotal is 14.95. No Sales Tax. Shipping Insurance is 1.40. I have a gift certificate balance of 25.00. In the Gift Certificate area of the check out, I apply 16.35 of my Gift Certificate Account balance to the order. I click "Continue Checkout". The OT balance on the next page should be zero, but it's 1.40 - the amount of the shipping insurance.

I'm having this same issue with Priority Handling Fee - but that's another mod that unfortunately doesn't seem to have a support thread.

For whatever reason, the fees from neither of these mods can be paid for with a Gift Certificate, and coupons deduct from them separately from the OT.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

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Originally Posted by DivaVocals

I'm not looking at this at all because I'm working overtime from another PC, but I wonder if perhaps changing the sort order of the order total modules will resolve this.. In other words I wonder if moving the shipping insurance's sort order above the gift certificate's sort order that it will apply the gift certificate to the shipping insurance.. (I think this is what I understand it is you want to have happen)

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Thanks for that tip Diva, it did the trick! It also worked for the priority handling fee mod. The only issue I have now is that my tax isn't calculating correctly. Sales tax is calculating based on the sub-total BEFORE coupons are applied.

However, I recognize this is off topic for this thread, so I'm off to do some searching on the forum :smile: I'm thinking that at some point I did something wrong with the sort order for the discount coupon when attempting to resolve that other issue.

Thanks again for your help :smile:

Someone please let me know if with this mod the insurance charge is listed as separate charge or is it added to shipping and handling.

Thanks.

Hi tj,

Shipping, Shipping Insurance, and Priority Order Handling are all listed separately. Now that I have all my OT Mod in the correct sort order, they show in this order:


$84.92
Sub-Total:


-$21.23
Discount Coupon: Welcome Coupon:


$25.00
Priority Handling:


$5.99
Illinois Sales Tax = 6.75%:


$1.56
United States Postal Service (First-Class Mail (2 - 5 days)):


$2.15
Shipping Insurance:


-$98.39
Gift Certificates Applied:


$0.00
Total:

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Originally Posted by kiddo

Can anyone confirm if this mod works on 1.3.9x?

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I'm using this mod, version 3.13 with ZC 139h. It is working perfectly now that I have the sort orders for my order total mods set up correctly. If there are any gotcha's, I haven't seen them yet.

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Originally Posted by kiddo

There seems to be a newer version on the Numinix site, but it still says for 1.3.8.

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There is indeed a newer version on the Numinix site. It is version 3.2.0 and it was built for ZC 138. I haven't upgraded my mod to this newer version, because the older version seems to be working fine for me.

The differences between the two versions are in the ReadMes on the Numinix site. The link for each version's ReadMe can be found in their respective mod download package.

I misspoke in my previous post. The change log outlining the differences between the versions is not in the ReadMe included in the download. It's actually on the download page for v3.2.0. Unfortunately, the changelog stops at v3.1.6, so there's no way to know what the improvements/fixes are for 3.2.0.

But, here's the link to the download and the changelog if you want it.