Different Shipping Costs by Category & Zone

[townsend2009]

I have searched but am not finding the answer to this question.
I am running Zen Cart 1.3.8a, Database Patch Level: 1.3.8

I would like to create shipping based on the category and then by zone.

For example:
Category A has a flat rate shipping of $12 to USA
Canada Shipping is $20
Contact me for International Shipping

Category B has a flat rate shipping of $15 to USA
Canada Shipping is $25
Contact me for International Shipping

Etc...

How would I go about setting this up the easiest way?

I'm not sure about if someone puts in a product from each category. I might assume the higher shipping would rank? Or would they be combined?

I tried doing this from THIS THREAD but it doesn't offer what I need.

TIA for anyone that can help!
xoxo

[schoolboy]

Conor Kerr (CEON on this forum) has a commercially available Advanced Shipper module that addresses practically every shipping variable one can think of.


see www.dev.ceon.net

(I have no commercial interest in ceon.net and do not endorse their software. I provide this information purely for you to evaluate the offers at ceon.net)

[townsend2009]

Thank you for that information. $77 is not what I want to spend right now if I don't have to. It does look like a GREAT program.

I'd like to just do a workaround or code. Thanks!!!

[schoolboy]

One way to look at things is to apply a reasonable value to your time...

Let's say $20 is not unreasonable...

Given that it took Conor (a highly skilled coder) more than 100 hours of solid work to build that mod, HIS time (at that modest rate) is over $2000...

Assuming that you are only half as skilled as Conor, the arithmetic suggests you'd take more than 200 hours to code the same functions - or a cost of more than $4000...

QED.

[townsend2009]

Please don't get me wrong. I am not saying it's not worth the money and time he's put into it. I'm just saying I don't have it to spend right now. That's all ;) Which is why I'm trying to do this myself ;)

[Ajeh]

Without a lot of customization, this is not something that can be easily done ...

If you had the shipping prices between zones that were proportional for each Category, you could adapt something easier ...

How many different Categories are you using?

Do you use Linked Products?

You could count how many products are in each Category and then build a rate for the results and add them together ...

But again, you are looking at a lot of code ...

global $cart;
$chk_category_12 = $_SESSION['cart']->in_cart_check('master_categories_id','12');

would give you how many are in the cart from Category 12 where the categories_id 12 is the master_categories_id 12 for the product ...

[finlander]

schoolboy:

Really? We make decisions involving purchases based on what it would cost a person to create the product/service on his own?

Uhh, and that $15000 car I bought with all those materials and workmanship, etc., -- I'm supposed to figure, oh, $50000 is actually a perfectly reasonable price for me to pay, since it would easily cost me $100000 in material sourcing, buying or building my own factory equipment, fabrication, labor, etc.? Is that what you would have us believe? Are you serious?

I didn't think so. That leaves promotion (sales pitch) as the only reason you would say such an asinine thing about the price of Mr. Kerr's software. Maybe you don't have any financial interest in Mr. Kerr's work. Fine. Then don't talk about the price tag of it in the vein of a skilled pitchman.

I'm posting this because you are one of the main veterans on this forum; you are trusted and people hold you in esteem. I found your use of snooker logic on Mr. townsend2009 to be disgraceful.

J.

One way to look at things is to apply a reasonable value to your time...

Let's say $20 is not unreasonable...

Given that it took Conor (a highly skilled coder) more than 100 hours of solid work to build that mod, HIS time (at that modest rate) is over $2000...

Assuming that you are only half as skilled as Conor, the arithmetic suggests you'd take more than 200 hours to code the same functions - or a cost of more than $4000...

QED.

[hondarider]

Conor Kerr (CEON on this forum) has a commercially available Advanced Shipper module that addresses practically every shipping variable one can think of.


see www.dev.ceon.net

(I have no commercial interest in ceon.net and do not endorse their software. I provide this information purely for you to evaluate the offers at ceon.net)

So this product will allow us to put a different shipping rates for each product.?

[townsend2009]

In follow up, I have found this module to be very helpful.

hondarider- Yes, it really does pretty cool things :) Has saved my ######## a few times.

-Mrs. Townsend2009