USPS Insurance?

[brillarmory]

Hello,

I'd like to make USPS insurance an option for the customers on my site.

Here are two concerns:

1. I get a big discount on USPS insurance from my current shipping software provider. Can I pass the insurance savings onto my customers? I don't want them to pay more than they need to.

2. USPS Priority flat rate already comes with $50 of free insurance. I want Zen Cart to know that insurance purchased for Priority flat rate will be additional insurance. Will this pose a problem?

Thanks in advance!

[mc12345678]

Hello,

I'd like to make USPS insurance an option for the customers on my site.

Here are two concerns:

1. I get a big discount on USPS insurance from my current shipping software provider. Can I pass the insurance savings onto my customers? I don't want them to pay more than they need to.

2. USPS Priority flat rate already comes with $50 of free insurance. I want Zen Cart to know that insurance purchased for Priority flat rate will be additional insurance. Will this pose a problem?

Thanks in advance!

For item 1, I would say to read your agreement with your current shipper, you may not be allowed to charge your customers for that associated fee. After that (ie, if allowed), then just need to pass the approriate information to and from the module to accouunt for the desired services to be paid by the customer.

Item 2, I haven't looked into the newly coded USPS module, but I would guess that it is coded to recognize to not begin charging extra insurance until the value was considered to exceed the threshhold established by the USPS. Just my guess, but would surprise me if not so coded and not told so in the install instructions.

[brillarmory]

For item 1, I would say to read your agreement with your current shipper, you may not be allowed to charge your customers for that associated fee. After that (ie, if allowed), then just need to pass the approriate information to and from the module to accouunt for the desired services to be paid by the customer.

Item 2, I haven't looked into the newly coded USPS module, but I would guess that it is coded to recognize to not begin charging extra insurance until the value was considered to exceed the threshhold established by the USPS. Just my guess, but would surprise me if not so coded and not told so in the install instructions.

Thank you.

Currently, I see no option to offer insurance with the USPS module... How do I get this?

[mc12345678]

Thank you.

Currently, I see no option to offer insurance with the USPS module... How do I get this?

Recommend downloading the latest version of USPS http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1292

At least the 2013-07-30 J5 had an option in the adminpanel related to insurance and notification to the customer. I haven't gotten up-to-speed with these new options, but the admin panel has several new settings, one of which includes insurance.

Be sure to follow the directions for install, and remember to backup the database as well as the files before installing/making major changes.

[brillarmory]

I don't see any options in the USPS shipping module that allows for insurance to be an option for the customer. Does anybody know how to get USPS insurance to work? I have the latest version of the USPS shipping plugin.

[Ajeh]

At this time, Insurance is not a customer option but a store owner option ... this is set in the USPS shipping module itself ...