Drop down box for postage options

[Togfather]

Hello,

I am in UK and want to offer postage options in a drop down box for certain postcodes. For example: standard delivery: £9.50, before 9.00 am £16.00, before noon: £13.00.

Can anyone tell me how to do this please?

Best wishes

Tog Porter

[mc12345678]

So my stab in the dark take on this is that you would first need to have each of the shipping modules developed to offer the time option that you want and to calculate out the shipping for that delivery time, then I'm thinking on the template for displaying the delivery options/methods, to create a dropdown box instead of radio buttons. I haven't looked at how it all fits together to say that it would be "this easy", but seems like it is the approximate way that it does/would work.

It would be a little limiting though I think, but it may be what your store needs. The limiting part is that without extra effort, then every shipping option would fall into this dropdown list and it may not make sense.

[Togfather]

Hello,

Many thanks for your reply. I am happy to have radio buttons instead of a drop down box. Can you tell me which page needs code altering in order to get that to work. I need to enter some code that creates additional radio buttons if the postcode matches a criteria. For example: if postcode contains PH26 then display radio button standard £9.95, radio button before 9.00 am £16.00, and radio button before noon £13.00, and if postcode contains FK1 then display radio button standard £9.95.

All of my shipping costs are flat rate.

Best wishes

Tog Porter

[mc12345678]

Hello,

Many thanks for your reply. I am happy to have radio buttons instead of a drop down box. Can you tell me which page needs code altering in order to get that to work. I need to enter some code that creates additional radio buttons if the postcode matches a criteria. For example: if postcode contains PH26 then display radio button standard £9.95, radio button before 9.00 am £16.00, and radio button before noon £13.00, and if postcode contains FK1 then display radio button standard £9.95.

All of my shipping costs are flat rate.

Best wishes

Tog Porter

Forgive me for not being very familiar with the specifics of postcodes in your area, but when you say if the postcode contains FK1, that is what you meant such that all of the following postcodes (while fictitious in my creation) would be subject to the same shipping rate(s): 23FK1, 56FK1, FK136, etc. because they all contain FK1.

So here is where my experience with ZC is light, but I understand the concept and that there are enough examples on this website to push through the problem. Unless there is a cleaner way, because all shipments are through the flat rate module, there are a couple of ways I think it can be done and it somewhat depends on if it is for you as a store modifier or for someone else that mostly uses it but doesn't understand modifications.

The options I see are, copy the flatrate.php file enough times to address the different shipping characteristics, such as there is a general flat-rate, there is a flatrate for two postcodes, then there is a flatrate for each of two times, so that could be four files. Alternatively, in the one flatrate.php file, all of the rules could be incorporated so that there is one file and the rates are changed based onn what is included in the postcode. Ideally all of that inforation would be captured in the admin panel, but one may need to just modify the flatrate.php file in the future.

The file(s) in question are located in store/includes/modules/shipping.

At the moment I'm on a cell phone and it is not easy to find additional information to help out. But from what it appears the desire is to modify the rate based on where it is being shipped and offer some additional flatrate options based on the destination.

[Togfather]

Thank you.

I have now added more flat rate modules, which give me the choices I want the buyer to have, but each one is displayed in a separate box. How can I get all of the choices to appear as different radio buttons inside one flat rate box?

Many thanks

Tog