Always Free Shipping

[yd29999]

Hello,
I'm using 1.3.8a. Is there a way to make the "Always Free Shipping" option restricted to USA addresses only?

[Ajeh]

You would need to do quite a bit of customizing and testing as this is not how this feature was designed ...

The good news is ... anything can be customized ... have you got your coding hat on?

[yd29999]

OR you can change the zone to the United States.

[Ajeh]

No, that too is managed by Always Free Shipping being for everyone and other shipping modules do not show when displayed ...

The Zone information is in there for advance coders who know how to utilize alternative coding methods for easier placement in the code to follow the standard pattern of the shipping modules ...

[yd29999]

The question was

"Is there a way to make the "Always Free Shipping" option restricted to USA addresses only?"

[Ajeh]

And the answer was ... No, not by default ...

You would need to do quite a bit of customizing and testing as this is not how this feature was designed ...

Always Free Shipping YES is designed to reduce the Item Count, Shipping Weight and Total Price for all shipping calculations ... and it is designed to only allow Free Shipping freeshipper shipping module to run when all Products compute to 0 on these calculation ...

You would need to reverse everything related to this so that it is not done that way ... and only do that when the address is not the US ...

[bobdog]

Well, perhaps you are not asking the right question.

It looks like you want free shipping in the USA, all other countries are charged shipping.

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=114396

I think it gets easier in 1.3.8 the instructions in my link are old. Set up zones in shipping. One zone is US, the other zone is defined as 00 (zero zero) it includes all other countries except US and give it a value $

** be sure to set all products as "normal shipping rules" ** not free shipping to all.

[yd29999]

I'm sorry, but I thought "USA addresses only" was rather clear.
Anyways that was before. Unfortunately, that seems to be the only way to get the "Free Shipping" gif to appear in the product listings and product info pages.

So, now I must decide, stay with the always free shipping with a statement "Not for International Customers" and have a second item, priced a bit lower, because the shipping won't be included and let the free shipping option controll that one.

The Free Shipping option seems to work well once the "or" was changed to "and". Tomorrow I'll see about adding a free shipping gift.

BTW zone rate won't work for me because of the range of prices and weights.

[Ajeh]

You could also customize the code to test for the shipping address to determine it is the US or not and alter the way the field:
product_is_always_free_shipping

is used in the shopping_cart class ...

This would change the product_is_always_free_shipping from being applied to everyone to only being applied when the shipping address is from the US ...

Yes, it would take some work to do this ... but then you would have this working the way you want it to ...

You could also add a condition to the display of the Free Shipping icon based on product_is_always_free_shipping or ... just change the Free Shipping icon to look like a cute little american flag with Free Shipping ... or base that on displaying for logged in customers ... or make folks login to shop ...

Note: be sure you keep in mind that the goal is the Shipping Address, and not just the Customer Address ...

Grandma might like in the UK for her customer and billing address, but be shipping little Tiny Tim his Christmas presents in New York ...

[arthurdent]

Hi Linda,

Just read this thread after trying to give free delivery to the UK only for certain products, but still charge to other Zones using the usual Zone rates.

I don't really have the expertise to start hacking around with classes. Don't suppose there's any chance this could be added to v2.0? I'd buy you a coffee... :)

Thanks