UK ParcelForce Shipping Modules

[philip_clarke]

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.

[Balefire]

Have installed this module following the PDF instructions. Enabling Euro 48 gives some very messed up zones - e.g:
EURO48: World Zone 5 Ireland (Republic of) consists of Greece, Italy, Portugal & Spain
EURO48: World Zone 8 Italy, Spain, Portugal & ; Greece consists of what is in ECONOMY WORLD ZONE 11: Far East & ; Australasia ( I checked by installing this afterwards)

Editing these zones to the correct contents and the Euro 48 still does not appear for any of the European countries. Choose France, get Store Pickup as the only delivery option. Uninstalling Euro 48 and reinstalling puts the zones back to the incorrect settings.

Will try on a completely fresh install and see what happens. I even ordered the SQL updates before I noticed this problem!

[Balefire]

Will try on a completely fresh install and see what happens. I even ordered the SQL updates before I noticed this problem!

Update:
Have installed into a completely fresh install and the same problems occur.

[philip_clarke]

Update:
Have installed into a completely fresh install and the same problems occur.

I have left the zencart project because I a) don't agree with them deleting my (defamatory and vulgar) posts, b) the project being financed by jsweb.co.uk who charges £75 to unzip and install the shipping module (and infers that the module is paid for). There is my email address in the zip files and if you click on my username.

Philiip

[philip_clarke]

Have installed this module following the PDF instructions. Enabling Euro 48 gives some very messed up zones - e.g:
EURO48: World Zone 5 Ireland (Republic of) consists of Greece, Italy, Portugal & Spain
EURO48: World Zone 8 Italy, Spain, Portugal & ; Greece consists of what is in ECONOMY WORLD ZONE 11: Far East & ; Australasia ( I checked by installing this afterwards)

Editing these zones to the correct contents and the Euro 48 still does not appear for any of the European countries. Choose France, get Store Pickup as the only delivery option. Uninstalling Euro 48 and reinstalling puts the zones back to the incorrect settings.

Will try on a completely fresh install and see what happens. I even ordered the SQL updates before I noticed this problem!

this is to confirm that EURO48 no longer works in version 2.3.7 which is available here on the zencart site. (well it does if you never try and install/ re-install or update anything and even then it gives you the wrong postal rates.

I am working on a fix, it will not be available from the download area.

[philip_clarke]

I can also confirm that the economy service in version 2.3.7 does not function and places most countries into the incorrect zone.

[philip_clarke]

Version 3.0 of ParcelForce will soon be ready, it should be noted that ParcelForce suddenly changed tehir prices unannounced on 5th October 2009 instead of the 1st January 2010, so all parcelforce pricing is now inaccurate.

[philip_clarke]

It should also be noted that a fix shall shortly be avaiable as the names and have also changed from International Datapost to Global Express so all the define files have to change too. The email address for support is royal@########################.co.uk

[JollyJim]

The UK Royal mail and Parcelforce mod is vital for UK online shops if they are to succeed. I applaud your work on this and personally I would be happy to pay a modest fee to see it maintained.

Perhaps future versions can be made available with a "download fee" or some kind of subscription for the updates and the licence changed to prevent anyone from charging for unzipping the file, or at least capping the charge to a fee where the creator/maintainer is happy with and maybe even gets some form of revenue share in order to at least cover costs.

Failing this perhaps you should follow the example set by the Zencart Dev team and launch some merchanidising (Big Royal mail mug, cap and t-shirt) with perhaps a book on how to install, configure and use the shipping module. :)