Creating New Zones

[JRayfield]

I need to set up different Table Rates for several different Zones. I think I've got cloning the Table Rate module covered. Now I need to set up multiple Zones.

For example:

Table Rate 1 - Continental U.S.
Table Rate 2 - Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, APO, FPO
Table Rate 3 - Canada

I've tried setting up a new Zone for the entire U.S., but when finished, the Status is 'yellow', instead of 'green'. So, it appears that something isn't right.

First, I created a new Zone called "United States" with a Zone Code of "US" and the Country set to "US".

Then I created a new Zone Definition with a Zone Name of "US" and the Description of "United States".

What did I do wrong?

John

[JRayfield]

I think I figured out how to do this. My Status is still showing 'yellow', but I see now that this is because there is no tax set for these 'shipping' zones.

But, I still need some help. I realize now that I need to set up Zones/Table Rates as follows:

Table Rate 1 - Colorado, with Sales Tax
Table Rate 2 - All U.S., except for Colorado, Alaska, Hawaii
Table Rate 3 - Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, APO, FPO
Table Rate 4 - Canada
Table Rate 6 - All Other Countries

What's the best (and hopefully easiest) way to set up the above Zones?

John

[JRayfield]

I keep figuring out things myself...I guess that's good!

Actually, I entered all of the countries, other than the U.S. and Canada, one by one, using the Admin interface. It was time consuming, but it worked.

I do have something odd, though.

I have one Zone - Colorado - setup with Sales Tax. So, the 'status' shows 'green' for that Zone on the Zone Definitions page.

However, when I look at the Shipping page, the first four Table Rate modules are 'yellow' and the fifth Table Rate module is showing 'green'.

What is causing this? At this point, all of the Table Rate modules are set up identically, using default values for each one.

John

[Ajeh]

The Zone setting is showing the yellow icon as a warning/caution to alert you that there is a filter on the module ...

[JRayfield]

What do you mean by 'filter'?

John

[Ajeh]

Setting a Zone is like setting a filter of who can use the module ...

[JRayfield]

Ok. I understand.

Table Rate 1 is set for Colorado (with tax)
Table Rate 2 is set for United States (Continental, less Colorado)
Table Rate 3 is set for Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, APO, FPO
Table Rate 4 is set for Canada
Table Rate 5 is set for All Countries (less Canada and U.S.)

Table Rates 1,2,3, and 4 are 'yellow', but Table Rate 5 is 'green'.

Shouldn't Table Rate 5 also be 'yellow', since a Zone is set for that Table?

John

[Ajeh]

hmmm ... one would think ...

But I didn't write your shipping modules so I am not sure if there are other issues here ...

Does your Table Rate 5 work?

[JRayfield]

I don't know if any of them actually work, yet. I found part of the code the download section of this site, but I think all it is, is just clones of the original Table Rate files and I'm not sure that they're quite up-to-date with the latest version of Zen-Cart. So I think I'm going to delete them and 'do it myself'.

If I understand correctly, I should just be able to 'clone' the the /includes/languages/English/modules/shipping/table.php file and the /includes/modules/shipping/table.php file, naming them something like table1.php, table2.php, etc., and making similar changes to all references of 'table' in each file (for example, this line "$this->title = MODULE_SHIPPING_TABLE_TEXT_TITLE;" in table.php would become "$this->title = MODULE_SHIPPING_TABLE2_TEXT_TITLE;" in table2.php.

At least, that's what the code that I used has done. Does this sound like it's the correct way to set up multiple Table Rate shipping modules?

John

[Ajeh]

Look in the Free Software Add Ons for:
Zone Table

And there is one called something like ZoneTables that lets you define your Zones and then when you Install the shipping module, it creates as many table settings as you have Zones defined ...

Are you just wanting 1 shipping module per zone?