Hi all:

I've searched here and in the Zen Cart site for a contribution or a custom modification similar to what we need without success.

Here's a little background of our business: We sell accounting supplies and tax forms. We used to be a catalog/phone order business only. We migrated the business to Zen Cart from a custom-built COBOL application running on SCO UNIX that was coded God knows when. So far, we have added all products successfully, and have fulfilled online orders without a problem.

There's one feature that we haven't been able to replicate from the old catalog/phone order days, which is offering free shipping by state. We have a chart of free shipping minimums, and it's divided by state. For example: to get free shipping to Alabama, the customer needs to spend at least $180.00, Arizona $295, and so on. Each individual state has a free shipping minimum. We are moving away from the printed catalog, and we want to offer this feature to our online customers.

I've tried a few contributions so far (Table Rate, Multiple Zones Modification, etc.) with little success. By default, Zen will allow free shipping to just one zone, but since we have 50 zones, it's kind of useless for what we need.

We're using a very lightly customized version Zen Cart 1.3.9d (added a Manufacturer Model Number field to the Admin products page for internal purposes). We also use the Tables Discount order total module. Everything else we use are the standard modules that come with Zen (UPS and PayPal modules) except for a few reporting modules.

Could someone at least point me in the right direction? Maybe there's a contribution out there that can accomplish this with a little tweaking? Maybe cloning the default free shipping module? I don't know. I am no PHP coder. I can read code, I know a little bit about MySQL and can easily make modifications to the code if need be, but unfortunately I don't write code from scratch.

Thank you all! Cheers! :-)

Victor