Region Tables 1.0.0 Released!

[conor]

Hi,

We're very pleased to announce the release of Region Tables 1.2.0RC1!

The following changes and bugfixes are part of this release:

[UPDATED] COMPATIBILITY BREAK! Upper limits are now INCLUSIVE, rather than exclusive as they were previously. E.g. 100-200 now includes 200 and reads as “Weight/Price equal to 100 or above, but not over 200” (Up to and including 200).
[ADDED] Support for fallover/catchall wildcard (‘*’) added for country codes.
[ADDED] A wildcard (‘*’) can now be used within ranges as an upper limit of “unlimited” for weights/prices. E.g. 30-*
[ADDED] Support for Australian postcodes added (4 digit codes). No country-specific docs yet.
[BUGFIX] Problems with Shipping Estimator not displaying error messages fixed.

The new website is online!

Check it out for more info and downloads...

http://dev.ceon.net/web/zen-cart/

We hope you like this new release! (As it is a Release Candidate, not all docs are finished... the code seems fine though!).

We've received lots of suggestions for updates. We'll be posting a list of these soon to see what everyone else thinks.


If you like this module please consider donating, it will help to make developing and supporting it worthwhile! :-)

Have a good weekend!

All the best...

Conor
Ceon

[kebeid]

Hi Conor,

I've read about the mod you've made and I like the idea very much. I haven't tested it, though. Do you think this would work well with Google Checkout?

-Pete

[conor]

Hi Pete,

Do you think this would work well with Google Checkout?

I don't know anything about google checkout really but if it works like all the other payment modules then I don't see why there would be a problem.

If the customer has to supply a shipping address, this module will allow you to charge them for shipping, irrespective of what payment module(s) you are using.

All the best...

Conor

[Peekay]

Shipping estimator now works.

I have one question. The 'we can not ship to your location' warning is preceded by the words 'Flat rate' which is the default fall-back title in the config. I was going to change this, or make it blank, but I wondered in what other circumstances might this title be displayed?

[conor]

Hi,

Shipping estimator now works.

Indeed it does! I hope that means you can make full use of the module now! :)

I have one question. The 'we can not ship to your location' warning is preceded by the words 'Flat rate' which is the default fall-back title in the config. I was going to change this, or make it blank, but I wondered in what other circumstances might this title be displayed?

Each shipping module in Zen Cart has a code and a title. The title is used to inform the user about the rate selected and is stored in the database against a completed order's details. If you don't ship to a region a customer is in then they won't be able to use the Region Tables shipping method so this information won't get recorded. So there's no harm in setting your default title to be something more descriptive like "Shipping to Region Unavailable". However, you must then be sure that there is a title/fallback title for every region that you have set up. Otherwise it'd be very confusing for the customer!

Hope that helps!

All the best...

Conor

[sylk]

Is anyone else having problems with the shipping estimator and region tables 1.2, it dose not handle weights over 400kg & i need to ship products up to 18 tone.

Also using weight based shipping if i express shipping method 1 as "1000:70,2000:180" and method 2 as "*:0" then enter a test order of 3000kg the estimater still offers a rate for method 1

Any sugestions please

[conor]

Hi,

Is anyone else having problems with the shipping estimator and region tables 1.2, it dose not handle weights over 400kg & i need to ship products up to 18 tone.

I'm talking to John privately about this.... obviously something is wrong with his installation of Zen Cart as the shipping estimator shouldn't fail at any specific weight.

This issue can be considered closed on this thread, please post any comments about it to myself or John privately as there is no point taking up any more room here!

All the best...

Conor

[treewoman]

I guess I missed something. I love the idea of this module - the only one that will work for my needs. However, when I tested the module, the weight is in kg but I want lb. Is this possible or should I convert everything over to kg?

Thanks again.

[Fred9V]

the weight is in kg but I want lb. Is this possible or should I convert everything over to kg?

Don't worry, this is just a matter of changing your language file!

Open regiontables.php located in includes\languages\english\modules\shipping

All you'll have to do is changing this line:
define('MODULE_REGION_TABLES_UNITS_TEXT', 'Kg(s)');

Good luck!

[conor]

Thanks Fred,

Just got in there before me! :)

All the best...

Conor
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