Free Shipping - some items - some zones - need upgrades

[djdavedawson]

I have a few items on my site i'd like to offer free Ground shipping to the Inter-Contenental US.

I have set up a zone definition "ICUS" with the 48 zones I will ship these items free to.

I enabled freeshipper and set the zone to "ICUS".

This seems to work except for a few issues.

Issue 1 -> When someone outside the zone ie. Alaska Hawaii, try to buy the item, no shipping options display at all. It just says nothing is available.

Issue 2 -> I would like for there to be Shipping Upgrades available versus the free Ground Shipping.

I have tried a few different things and cant seem to get it configured to work.

Is there someway to do this ?

Thanks in Advance

~D

[Ajeh]

FREE SHIPPING! freeshipper is designed for ALL customers regardless of Zone ...

The Zone setting is there from developers for easier customization of the code ...

How are you marking the Products for Free Shipping to the Zone you want to have Free Shipping?

What other shipping modules are you using?

[djdavedawson]

I am only using the ups shipping module.

I am marking the products by changing them to "yes, always free shipping" in edit products.

Thanks

~D

[Ajeh]

See if post #11 from this thread:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...hipping_weight

helps you in this customization ...

NOTE: where it references USPS you should customize UPS shipping module in a similar manner ...

[djdavedawson]

Thanks for the link, I will try these changes.

Once they are complete, will the other shipping options be available when free ship products are selected.

For example, If, they wanted to upgrade the shipping to 2nd Day or Overnight.

Thanks again

~D

[Ajeh]

There are a number of ways to make the shipping modules work at the same time as the Free Shipping ...

What is the ultimate goal here?

[djdavedawson]

The ultimate goal is to have just a few products that include Ground shipping. If a customer selects an item that is "free ship", they also have a choice to pay for faster shipping.

[Ajeh]

If you add weight to all Products ... and mark those for Free Shipping to the US as Always Free Shipping ...

You can make the following customizations ...

Make a Zone Definition defined for the US Only ...

Install the Free Shipping Options freeoptions instead of the FREE SHIPPING! freeshipper ... and set the Total >= 0 and set the Zone to the new Zone Definition for the US Only ...

Edit the code for:
/includes/modules/shipping/freeoptions.php

to include the code in RED:

      // disable only when entire cart is free shipping
      if (zen_get_shipping_enabled($this->code)) {
          $this->enabled = ((MODULE_SHIPPING_FREEOPTIONS_STATUS == 'True') ? true : false);
      }

// bof: Always Free Shipping
      if (!IS_ADMIN_FLAG) {
        global $cart;
echo 'Always Free: ' . $_SESSION['cart']->in_cart_check('product_is_always_free_shipping','1') . ' Count: ' .  $_SESSION['cart']->count_contents();
        if ($_SESSION['cart']->in_cart_check('product_is_always_free_shipping','1') == $_SESSION['cart']->count_contents()) {
          $this->enabled = true;
        }
      }
// eof: Always Free Shipping

      if ( ($this->enabled == true) && ((int)MODULE_SHIPPING_FREEOPTIONS_ZONE > 0) ) {

Edit the code for the UPS shipping module with the code in RED:

    // disable only when entire cart is free shipping
//    if (zen_get_shipping_enabled($this->code)) {
      $this->enabled = ((MODULE_SHIPPING_UPS_STATUS == 'True') ? true : false);
//    }

Edit the code for the shipping class with the code in RED:

  function calculate_boxes_weight_and_tare() {
    global $total_weight, $shipping_weight, $shipping_quoted, $shipping_num_boxes;

// bof: add back Free Shipping
    global $cart;
    $total_weight += $_SESSION['cart']->free_shipping_weight;
//
    if (is_array($this->modules)) {

Now the Free Shipping Options freeoptions will only show for the US when the whole order is Always Free Shipping and the UPS will always show with the proper weight ...

[djdavedawson]

Thank you Oba-san. Let me try this out.

[djdavedawson]

Ok, I put this up on the testing server and it works well.

I did have to change this

if ($_SESSION['cart']->in_cart_check('product_is_always_free_shipping','1') == $_SESSION['cart']->count_contents()) {
          $this->enabled = true;
        } 

to this

if ($_SESSION['cart']->in_cart_check('product_is_always_free_shipping','1') == $_SESSION['cart']->count_contents()) {
          $this->enabled = true;
        } else {$this->enabled = false;} 

So the problem then became how do we handle a mixed cart. With the above solution, A mixed cart would force the customer to pay shipping on the items that were free ship.

I came up with a way to handle a mixed cart, Although my method for recalculating the ground shipping "$mycost" was feeble at best, it's was only off by a dollar or so. I'm hoping there is a more accurate way to do it.

Here is what I did:

Around line 196, i changed this:

$methods[] = array('id' => $type,        
                           'title' => $this->types[$type],
                           'cost' => ($cost * $shipping_num_boxes ) + (MODULE_SHIPPING_UPS_HANDLING_METHOD == 'Box' ? MODULE_SHIPPING_UPS_HANDLING * $shipping_num_boxes : MODULE_SHIPPING_UPS_HANDLING) ); 

to this:

    if ($type=='GND' && $_SESSION['cart']->free_shipping_weight !=0 ) {
        
        if ($_SESSION['cart']->in_cart_check('product_is_always_free_shipping','1') == $_SESSION['cart']->count_contents()) {
        
            } else {
            
            $mycost = $cost * (1-($_SESSION['cart']->free_shipping_weight / ($_SESSION['cart']->free_shipping_weight + $ups_shipping_weight)));
        
        $methods[] = array('id' => $type,        
                           'title' => $this->types[$type] . " (Free Shipping + " . (($ups_shipping_weight * $shipping_num_boxes) - $_SESSION['cart']->free_shipping_weight) ." lbs.)",
                           'cost' => ($mycost * $shipping_num_boxes) + (MODULE_SHIPPING_UPS_HANDLING_METHOD == 'Box' ? MODULE_SHIPPING_UPS_HANDLING * $shipping_num_boxes : MODULE_SHIPPING_UPS_HANDLING) );
        }
        
        } else {
            
        $methods[] = array('id' => $type,        
                           'title' => $this->types[$type],
                           'cost' => ($cost * $shipping_num_boxes ) + (MODULE_SHIPPING_UPS_HANDLING_METHOD == 'Box' ? MODULE_SHIPPING_UPS_HANDLING * $shipping_num_boxes : MODULE_SHIPPING_UPS_HANDLING) );
        } 

What do you think ?

Thanks