Canada Post module

[one tall man]

This question must have been asked a dozen times, but I am not having luck with search function, so forgive me for asking it again.
When I add products to the shopping cart, the shipping rate just keeps multiplying instead of doing combined shipping. Is this the only way Canada Post module works?
With recent jacking up the rates 2x by Canada Post this is going to run me out of business in a short time, as when a customer sees $30 for shipping two diodes from Toronto to Winnipeg, they just bail out and go to the eBay where it's free shipping from China all over the world.

[soxophoneplayer]

This question must have been asked a dozen times, but I am not having luck with search function, so forgive me for asking it again.
When I add products to the shopping cart, the shipping rate just keeps multiplying instead of doing combined shipping. Is this the only way Canada Post module works?
With recent jacking up the rates 2x by Canada Post this is going to run me out of business in a short time, as when a customer sees $30 for shipping two diodes from Toronto to Winnipeg, they just bail out and go to the eBay where it's free shipping from China all over the world.

I can't speak to technical code aspects. But do you have package sizes established in your CPost profile that will accommodate multiple items. And if so, are the package dimensions given in the same sequence as used in your product description - ie a 2 x 3 x 6 product won't compute to fit in a 6 x 2 x 3 box. These are only things I can think of if mod is merged/installed ok.

Good luck.

[Northfur]

Tried playing with the old Canada Post module again, but I cannot seem to get it to load.

When adding /includes/modules/shipping/canadapost.php into its directory, it "breaks" the admin interface with and without the fix from #284 Any suggestions?

[twitchtoo]

Warning: the current Canada Post Shipping Module for Zen Cart 1.53 will not work out of the box. There are coding errors...

I am currently rebuilding the module to be compatible with Zen 1.55f, will post updates/bug fixes when complete.

[Northfur]

The current Canada Post module is terribly out of date. Canada Post has abandoned the Sell Online platform years ago, and uses only Rest/Soap. The solution I have mashed together, of the Shipping Boxes Manager module and Advanced Canada Post produces rates, but the box manager is terribly inaccurate with its logic for packing boxes, and the advanced Canada post module won't return rates for Tracked Packet, Priority and other services.

It's been 4 years since the Canada post Module has been updated, if twitchtoo or anyone can produce a module that works with CP's new platform, and handle boxes in a competent way, I'd gladly contribute money towards it.

[soxophoneplayer]

The current Canada Post module is terribly out of date. Canada Post has abandoned the Sell Online platform years ago, and uses only Rest/Soap. The solution I have mashed together, of the Shipping Boxes Manager module and Advanced Canada Post produces rates, but the box manager is terribly inaccurate with its logic for packing boxes, and the advanced Canada post module won't return rates for Tracked Packet, Priority and other services.

It's been 4 years since the Canada post Module has been updated, if twitchtoo or anyone can produce a module that works with CP's new platform, and handle boxes in a competent way, I'd gladly contribute money towards it.

I'm still using last Canada Post mod from the plugin page. Priority Shipping apparently doesn't work but I don't use it. I use the includes/modules/shipping/candapost file as written, not modified as mentioned a few posts back.

The boxes and packing work well for me and the quoted rate is usually dead on, or at least very close. It did take some fiddling years ago to get my box sizes set - its important to have length, width, depth in the same order for each box. And I created boxes that accommodate multiples of those dimensions and in the same sequence. (an item sized as 8x2x4 will NOT fit in a box 4x2x8 - instead the mod will search for the first box defined to accommodate the former. squence)

There was an issue, years back when I was on zc 1.3.7 - using the 'free shipping mod' resident in zen cart conflicted with the Canada Post Mod - the solution at the time (that I still use) is to leave the free shipping mod uninstalled and define free shipping threshold in the Canada Post set up (where the box sizes are defined).

My biggest gripe with Canada Post is that their site goes down more often than I like - affecting not just zen cart mod but other CanPost online services.

I am, however, looking forward to an update as it is surely a matter of time before it all goes south on me ;o)

Currently using zc 1.5.5f, php7.1

[Northfur]

So, is Canada Post down yet again or just me? Must be them, I can't even log into their website...

[twitchtoo]

The current Canada Post module is terribly out of date. Canada Post has abandoned the Sell Online platform years ago, and uses only Rest/Soap. The solution I have mashed together, of the Shipping Boxes Manager module and Advanced Canada Post produces rates, but the box manager is terribly inaccurate with its logic for packing boxes, and the advanced Canada post module won't return rates for Tracked Packet, Priority and other services.

It's been 4 years since the Canada post Module has been updated, if twitchtoo or anyone can produce a module that works with CP's new platform, and handle boxes in a competent way, I'd gladly contribute money towards it.

Unfortunately funding to rebuild this project by my first client was cut when their hosting fees - to open the specific port needed - exceeded their projected income each month! There were other factors of course and each hosting company had similar pricing/support.

We instead developed a static/dynamic lookup that can gather the information by other means and present very accurate postal pricing without any time waiting for a remote processing server.

Obviously being wired directly into Canada Post is the purpose of this module and when funding returns I'll be happy to support it!

[Northfur]

I've tried re-installing the regular canada post module from the plugins page on my 1.5.4 cart, and it's causing the shipping modules page on the admin side to hang. (see picture), what can I do to have the page load properly?

[nootkan]

Unfortunately funding to rebuild this project by my first client was cut when their hosting fees - to open the specific port needed - exceeded their projected income each month! There were other factors of course and each hosting company had similar pricing/support.

We instead developed a static/dynamic lookup that can gather the information by other means and present very accurate postal pricing without any time waiting for a remote processing server.

Obviously being wired directly into Canada Post is the purpose of this module and when funding returns I'll be happy to support it!

I can't speak for everyone but because I manage my own dedicated server with websites already using a rest/soap canada post plugin (wp) the opening of the ports isn't an issue for me.

In fact, I have my own api keys registered with Canada Post. I would definitely entertain the idea of discussing what funding is required to upgrade or rebuild this plugin.