Shipping options question...

[voltar]

I want to offer free USA shipping on a few categorizes and leave the others alone. I accomplished this by setting the weight of these products to 0 and setting free shipping options to weight <=0 to activate the free shipping option. In order to exclude international orders from the free shipping option I set zones for USA only. This all works great but although international orders are excluded from the free shipping option, having the weight set to 0 for this set of products the international shipping doesn't calculate properly. I am running ZC ver1.3.9h

Is there a way to accomplish this? Thanks.

[Ajeh]

What shipping method(s) are you using for International and the other Products that are not Free Shipping?

[voltar]

I'm using the stock modules for UPS and USPS. We show UPS but no international customers have ever selected it. They always choose USPS. Thanks.

[Ajeh]

When the Cart contains only Always Free Shipping and the customer is a US customer, do you want to:

1 Only see Free shipping ...

2 Or, see the Free shipping and the other shipping modules for UPS and USPS ...

[voltar]

2 would be the best choice. I always want the customer to have the option of selecting free shipping along with all of the other shipping options in case they would prefer to have another shipping method ie. Express or UPS. Many of my customers seem to order at the last minute and they need the other option. Thanks.

[Ajeh]

First, create a Zone for the US and include in the Details what the US should be ...

Add the Zone to the Modules ... Shipping ... FREE SHIPPING! freeshipper shipping module ...

Next, you need to customize the code in:
/includes/classes/shipping.php

and around line 65 change the code:

  function calculate_boxes_weight_and_tare() {
    global $total_weight, $shipping_weight, $shipping_quoted, $shipping_num_boxes;

// bof: add back in the Free Shipping Weight
    global $order, $cart;
      $total_weight += $_SESSION['cart']->free_shipping_weight();
// eof: add back in the Free Shipping Weight


    if (is_array($this->modules)) {

Now, add Weight to ALL Products and the ones that should offer Free Shipping for the US mark as Always Free Shipping ...

What should happen is that the US, based on your US Zone Definition, should see the FREE SHIPPING! freeshipper and ALL of the other shipping methods ... any one else will only see ALL of the other shipping methods, excluding the FREE SHIPPING! freeshipper ...

You can then customize the Language file for the FREE SHIPPING! freeshipper shipping module to read as you would like to see it ...