Always Free Shipping

[arthurdent]

Also, I've just noticed something when FREE SHIPPING is limited to a particular Zone.

If a customer with a delivery address in a different Zone (i.e. not entitled to Free Shipping) has a Free Shipping product in their cart, they get the TITLE / TEXT_NO_SHIPPING_AVAILABLE message - so I can at least tell them they have to contact the store to buy the item.

However if they also have a non-free shipping product in their basket, the free shipping bar on their Zone is ignored, and the the Zone Rate amount for the second product only is displayed / charged. So they'd be ordering 2 items, but paying shipping for only one of them.

Am I missing something, or is it a wee bug? I'm on v1.3.7.

[Ajeh]

Free Shipping freeshipper is not really designed for Zones ...
as a matter of fact, as is, it will not work ...

The Zone code is in the module for coders who might need it for customization purposes ...

On trying to make products Free Shipping for a particular Zone or Zones, you would need to really customize the code to manage this ...

Always Free Shipping is for Free Shipping for everyone ... and cannot, at this time, be used for a given Zone ...

[Mickyelta]

I too was confronted by this very same issue, so put my coding hat on and heres what i came up with. My example applies to Australia but seems to work for any country it will make products marked free shipping only available to the country the store is in and use any of the other shipping mods if being shipped out of the country of origin.

Step 1
if you haven't already created a zone for you country do it now
eg create zone australia with all states included.

Step 2
in admin goto modules>shipping>freeshipper and set the zone to the zone you have just created.

now if you place an order to an overseas address with all freeshipping items in cart you should get a message that you are current not shipping to this region and locally freeshipping should show (this is good this shows you have zones set correctly.

Step 3
the file editing
edit /includes/classes/shopping_cart.php

find on around line 591

function calculate() { 
    global $db;

add $order to the globals eg

function calculate() { 
    global $db, $order;

around line 619 find

// adjusted count for free shipping 
        if ($product->fields['product_is_always_free_shipping'] != 1 and $product->fields['products_virtual'] != 1) { 
          $products_weight = $product->fields['products_weight']; 
        }else{
    $product_weight=0;
    }

directly after this add

if ($product->fields['product_is_always_free_shipping'] = 1 && $order->delivery['country']['id']!= STORE_COUNTRY) { 
         $products_weight = $product->fields['products_weight'];
}

around line 658 find

// shipping adjustments 
        if (($product->fields['product_is_always_free_shipping'] == 1) or ($product->fields['products_virtual'] == 1) or (ereg('^GIFT', addslashes($product->fields['products_model'])))) {

replace it with

if (($product->fields['product_is_always_free_shipping'] == 1 && $order->delivery['country']['id']== STORE_COUNTRY) or ($product->fields['products_virtual'] == 1) or (ereg('^GIFT', addslashes($product->fields['products_model'])))) {

on line 1031 find

 if ($product->fields['product_is_always_free_shipping'] != 1) { 
          $new_attributes_weight = $attribute_weight_info->fields['products_attributes_weight']; 
        } else { 
          $new_attributes_weight = 0; 
        }

directly after it add

if ($product->fields['product_is_always_free_shipping'] = 1 && $order->delivery['country']['id']!= STORE_COUNTRY) { 
         $new_attributes_weight = $attribute_weight_info->fields['products_attributes_weight'];
}

save file

now edit /includes/functions/functions_general.php
find around line 1203

// Always free shipping only true - disable everyone 
      case (($check_cart_free == $check_cart_cnt) and $shipping_module != 'freeshipper'): 
        return false; 
        break;

replace it with

// Always free shipping only true - disable everyone 
      case (($check_cart_free == $check_cart_cnt && $order->delivery['country']['id']== STORE_COUNTRY)  and $shipping_module != 'freeshipper'):
    return false; 
        break;

save file and it sould work.
the last but not least thing to change is the free shipping icon
/includes/templates/template_default/images/always-free-shipping.gif make a new one to reflect where you are offering free shipping eg free shipping australia only.
As always no guarantees test test test then retest in your own enviroment. if anyone has anything to add or finds bugs in the system please let me know

[cheezey]

I too was confronted by this very same issue, so put my coding hat on and heres what i came up with.

Thanks for this

I've just implemented what you've done for a site and so far all seems to be working very nicely.

[numinix]

A simpler way to have shipping modules display with freeshipper is to change the following lines in functions_general.php:

Find:

case (ORDER_WEIGHT_ZERO_STATUS == '1' and ($check_cart_weight == 0 and $shipping_module != 'freeshipper')):
        return false; 

Replace with:

case (ORDER_WEIGHT_ZERO_STATUS == '1' and ($check_cart_weight == 0 and $shipping_module != 'freeshipper')):
        return true; 

Find:

case (($_SESSION['cart']->free_shipping_items() == $check_cart_cnt) and $shipping_module != 'freeshipper'):
        return false; 

Replace with:

case (($_SESSION['cart']->free_shipping_items() == $check_cart_cnt) and $shipping_module != 'freeshipper'):
        return true; 

Find:

case (($check_cart_free == $check_cart_cnt) and $shipping_module != 'freeshipper'):
        return false; 

Replace with:

case (($check_cart_free == $check_cart_cnt) and $shipping_module != 'freeshipper'):
        return true;