auspost registered post option?

[gilly]

The website I am building (only for australian customers) requires an option to use registered post. I am using the auspost shipping module, but it seems odd that registered post is not built into this.

Is there a version that has this inbuilt?

I just need to make customers who spend over $20 to use registered post for extra security for them.

Any ideas?

[gilly]

anyone with any ideas on this?

[janks]

In the auspost module, use the insurance field to add the charge for registered post, and just change the language files to say registered post instead of insurance.

i believe the right insurance formula for your application is 20:0,1000:2.50

in place of the 1000, this figure could be anything... just make sure it is higher than the total of your biggest orders

hope this helps

[gilly]

cheers for that. I put it in and it appeared to work.

However it doesnt work the way I would like.

For starters, when you go to "estimate shipping" it only displays the regular postal charge and doesnt include insurance. The user doesnt find out about the insurance until the checkout process.

The other thing is, not all customers want insurance. So thats why I want the insurance part of it to be an option. Ideally the option would sit amongst either Parcel Post and Express Post.

It would be awesome if this was built into the aus post module - I'm a little confused as to why it isnt.

[drakky]

cheers for that. I put it in and it appeared to work.

However it doesnt work the way I would like.

For starters, when you go to "estimate shipping" it only displays the regular postal charge and doesnt include insurance. The user doesnt find out about the insurance until the checkout process.

The other thing is, not all customers want insurance. So thats why I want the insurance part of it to be an option. Ideally the option would sit amongst either Parcel Post and Express Post.

It would be awesome if this was built into the aus post module - I'm a little confused as to why it isnt.

it's not built in because you are limited by the functionality that the Australia Post DRC has, and it doesnt include COD or Registered Post functions, however these 2 functions should not need the DRC they should be able to be added by someone who can code php fairly easily , unfortunately it's difficult to find someone familiar with the code

[gilly]

I just had another idea. I really want registered post to be an option for customers (as many orders are only worth a few dollars anyway).

So this is my idea:

Duplicate the auspost php files and call it auspostregistered. Change all instances of auspost, to auspostregistered. There are 2 of these files:
/cart/includes/languages/english/modules/shipping/
/cart/includes/modules/shipping/

Then you could create a new gif file with the registered post logo on it. Located here:
/cart/includes/templates/template_default/icons/

Then basically, you install the new module within the admin panel, and manually add a handling fee of $2.50 (the registered post charge) and set 'handling fee' to hide.

So in effect, this new module simply uses the regular post DRC thing to check the normal postage price, and then adds in the registered post charge of $2.50.

So if this were to all work, your customers are given the chance to select either regular post, or registered post. Ive tested this through the checkout process and it seems to work perfectly fine - but I could be wrong.