Shipping to various zones, with 2 methods ..how to do this?

[jack82]

Hi ! I have seen there are plenty of modules with zen cart but I haven' t seen or understood which one is the best for my needs.

Here is what I would like to do :

There would be 3 zones :

A , B , C

Depending on the zone the costs would be different and for each zone you would have 2 shipping methods, priority mail and registered mail like this :

Zone A : x for priority mail and x' for registered mail
Zone B : y for priority mail and y' for registered mail
Zone C : z for priority mail and z' for registered mail

at last, independently of the zone and of the shipping method , for 2 or more items you should simply add a certain fixed amount t .

Is this possible ? I know that I can easily set the shipping for more zones thanks to the zone module, but how can I add more shipping methods for the same zone , and add that extra fixed amount if someone buys more than 1 item ?

Thanks a lot in advance for any help !

Jack

[kobra]

Are you trying to have a flat fee for each of these ? Or is it based upon weight or # of items? A bit sketchy on what your description was descirbing

[jack82]

Hi! thanks for answering!
Yes , I think thats what you call flat fee ...

It is a fixed tariff (within a zone obviously )for all items , but there should be the option to choose whether you want it by priority mail or registered mail. In addition if you buy 2 or more items you just have to add another fixed fee , but just once , not for each item . This last fee would be the same for all the zones.


So you have these 3 zones A,B,C .

If you are from B , you go on in the checkout and get the 2 options : priority mail and registered mail corresponding to your area. In addition if you are buying more items you'll have to pay another fee , just once, like 0,50 cents or so ..

I hope I have explained myself better now... can you help me ?

I saw there is the flat rate clone process I could do ...right ? Is that hard ? Is there another option ?

Thanks a lot !
Jack

[kobra]

Still more detail:

Area "A"
1 item =
2 items =
3 items =

Area "B"
1 item =
2 items =
3 items =

Please what you want for each condition

[jack82]

Hi! here I'll put some values as example:

Area "A"
1 item = 1.50 priority mail
1item = 3.50 registered mail

for more items, just add 0.50 cent to the total final amount so e.g.
2 items = 2.00 prioriy mail
2 items = 4.00 registered mail
3 items = 2.00 priority mail
3 items = 4.00 registered mail
.
.

Area "B"
1 item = 2.50 priority mail
1 item = 4.50 registered mail

always only add 0.50 cent for more items :
2 items = 3.00 priority mail
2 items = 5.00 registered mail
an so on
3 items = 3.00 priority mail
3 items = 5.00 registered mail

So , for each area you should always have the 2 possibilities, the buyer must be able to choose whether he wants priority mail or registered mail. If he has got 2 or more items , he should automatically pay 0.50 cent more.

Thanks, any help is welcome!
Jack

[kobra]

I would look for a mod for MZMT (multi zone-multi table) and try this with tables where the table is based upon # of items and you only require the cost for one item and then the cost for 2 to infinity items ( this will most likely be a high value like 100) so that purchases above one are charged according to the table rate.

You will then have to rename the text displayed as registered or priority and this is user selectable and do this for each zone.

The zone includes the country codes for where this is applicable

[jack82]

OK, thanks a lot ! So I am going to see where this mod is (in the downloads section?) and try it out. I'll let you know how I'm doing.

Thanks again!
Jack

[jack82]

Hi ! I 've been trying to set up the shipping with the zones module that is already included.

I used the one that is already there to set up my priority mail shipping for all the world and depending also on how many item someone buy, and that works fine !

Then, I tried to clone the zones module (both files in includes/modules/shipping..and includes/languages/modules/shipping/...) and I change everywhere I saw the word "zones" with "zones2" so that I could have another zones module for the registered mail . In this way everything would be perfect...the problem is that after having cloned it ,I see it in my admin among the modules and I am able to set up the rates and everything (so it seems to work) BUT in the end when I test it (as a user) it says :"The shipping rate cannot be determined at this time " as if it didn't recognise the country ?
I really setted it as the other one , that still appears and works fine.

I really think , I did something wrong when I changed the name from "zones" to "zones2" within the zones.php . I am not expert at all in php so I don't really know if it was correct to change the name all the times it appeared...I read somewhere I had to change it in the classes and function or something like that ...

Can anyone help me ? Maybe Kobra since you followed my problem and you are an expert , thank a lot in advance !

[jack82]

Hi ! I made it !

I doubled checked the zones2.php file again and I had missed out some "zones" words which I had not renamed ...!

OK, thank a lot for your help !
Jack

[kobra]

07:21 AM to 07:35 AM you became an expert!!!

Glad you sorted it