UK ParcelForce Shipping Modules

You are right about configuration and store.

For some reason 222 was showing where United Kingdom had previously been showing. I fixed it and will try again. Hopefully that was the only problem apart from the SQL thing above.

Managed to add the UK zones now and checked the tables and everything is correct in MyPHP.

Still getting a sign up error.

I'll check the fast and easy thread since i think i updated that last night for one template only and those other two templates work fine with the sign up process.

Still having problems with one template and sign up.

Others work but cannot checkout.

I think PayPal does not recognise England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland as separate countries and it needs to be United Kingdom and GB.

In the perfect combination then England, Scotland etc.. should be sub-zones of the United Kingdom, but you can get aroung it by setting those countries to have the code GB and that certainly works as paypal accepts only the two country code. Now whether the fastpayment module is extracting the correct codes is not something to do with me but I have seen it configured correctlt on other people's system and configured it myself.

The one thing also worth mentioning is that if someone clicks on the fast pay button then it bypasses the whole log on/ account procedure and uses the country for the user's paypal ID so the zones in zencart are irrelevant apart from providing shipping information.

Philip.

Well something wasn't right and i could take eight hours to fix it or maybe days so instead of that i have decided on a new fresh zencart install.

Did someone mention backups ? Yes well next time i will :oops:

Perhaps this has been asked before, but I can't find it:

I want to make a county, such as Surrey or Somerset, into shipping zones defined in ukzr so that a package with the same weight are sent to these two counties at different charges. I have the UK set up as a country and all the counties, such as Surrey, listed as zones under UK. What would be the code to replace to go about this? I am aware that parcelforce charges the same to these counties, but the above is an example and I am looking for the principle behind how the ukzr shipping zones are defined.
thanks

There's a pdf inside the zip file that gives more help for setting up ukzr but very approximately it goes like this the UKZR is split into 3 different areas,

• area 1 - most of the UK
• area 2 - highlands Island of Scotland
• area 3 - Northern Ireland

When you install the module then it creates "zone definitions" that you can find under locations/ taxes > zone definitions then you assign the places that you want into these zones. This has to be done manually because over the years people choose things like Scotland as a separate country to the United Kingdom and then there are things like Zetland as an alternative name for Shetland.

The module looks at the selected county and goes "right I'll use the rates for UKZR:2" is it's in that county. So the module is coded to look at the defined zones and is limited to three distinct areas. There is a module and a thread called MZMT somewhere which is MultiZone Multi-Table and that modules can have more rates quoted for differing zones but the mechanism is that same. You define an area to be in a specific "zone definition" and the module picks that up and quotes a postal rate for it.

Thank you
Philip.

BUGFIX

version 2.3.7
VERY IMPORTANT TO READ THE UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS, the modules were designed not to overwrite any data set by the administrator, such as handling charges and unfortunately a bug has meant that this can happen if the instructions are not followed exactly.

Until it is available at the download area this update is located here:

https://www.3xlock.com/versions/ParcelForce_v2.3.7.zip

I only want to use the UK Parcel Force modules (at the moment we only deliver in the UK) but after installing the full Parcel Force module. I seem to have only International services. I certainly can't find Parcelforce 24 the one that offers Next Day delivery in the UK. Sorry, if I am missing something obvious I am a bit of a dummy when it comes to all this ...

You will have to read the pdf called UKZR to use the UK parcelforce rates, as you are probably aware, within the UK parcelforce splits the country up into 3 zone, Mainland UK, Northen Irleand & the channel isalands, and the Highlands of scotland, so you have to configure your cart manually.

This is unfortunately quite a lot of work as it involves going through a county list for the UK, It cannot be set up automatically by the modules, because there have historically been many county lists with spelling errors etc... so one solution does not fit all. Also when zen cart creates a "zone" (e.g. the highlands) it adds it to database with a number that is automatically one greater than the last zone, because of this, there is no consistent numbering for the module to lock onto to perform a database update.

Philip.