Need some Help in COD. COD fee depending on order price

[bratsangels]

Hi,
I am new to zencart and need some help from Zencart gurus here. Pls help me.


I want to take some fees say $5 for COD for orders below 500 and above that COD fees will be free i.e. 0.

Pls help me in setting it. The COD fee (0 or the value $5) should be reflected in the order / invoice etc if the COD payment mode is used.



Now before that I need another check as I am planning to make COD available to only few zipcodes in a particular area.
I have a table with columns Sl,zipcodes, city,area, serviceable. the serviceable contains YES or NO.

Now I need to check first if the shipping (current address) zipcode is serviceable or not. if not it will just display "COD not available for your zipcode or the zipcode entered is wrong" (if the zipcode is not found in database). Also making the COD option read only. If the zipcode is serviceable the COD option will work normally.

Thankyou in advance.

[bratsangels]

pls help me friends

[DrByte]

The logic for handling zone validation is in the update_status() function/method of the COD module file.
You can add your additional logic for your custom zone restrictions and your pricing changes to that section as well.

[bratsangels]

its not about the zone.

I need to look up in the table for the zipcode entered during checkout in the shipping address and show the cod option after checking if the zipcode entered is serviceable or not. Actually, in a zone many zipcodes will not be serviceable.

[DrByte]

Right. But your specialized logic for certain zip codes is the exact same concept as the builtin broader zone-based restrictions. Thus adding your custom logic to that same section of the code would the logical way to implement it.

[bratsangels]

thanks buddy. Actually I am bit novice in programming, pls give me a refrence where I need to change the code. like the file name & code section. will give it a try.

[DrByte]

The logic for handling zone validation is in the update_status() function/method of the COD module file.
You can add your additional logic for your custom zone restrictions and your pricing changes to that section as well.

/includes/modules/payment/cod.php

[bratsangels]

should I edit that code with the zipcode database part

[torvista]

What I did was consider COD to be a shipping option, since the carriers (Postal Service, Couriers..) have different fee structures for the different shipping services and this is all easily managed by Advanced Shipper (comercial module) which will do the zipcode filtering you want.
Then, when a COD shipping service is selected, I disable the other payment options on the payment page to stop the idiots paying by another method again.

[bratsangels]

@torvista : thanks buddy for the much needed information. it really helped. God Bless