Quote Originally Posted by brittainmark View Post
Zen cart does not have length attributes. All the shipping modules are base on the weight of the item being shipped. Therefore the shipping module adds up the total weight of the order to calculate the cost of sending items. I added to Big royal mail the ability to take into account some aspect of size by using product attributes.
It sound like you are trying to use big royal mail to deliver via an other supplier (not royal mail). I would suggest that you just use the weight to determine the extra cost. If you want to use one of the modules you could just choose say 1st medium parcel and change all its headings in "\includes\languages\english\modules\shipping\rm1stmedparcel.php" to say what you want for the deliver. If you are entering the weights for all your items then you could just put in different weights for the different costs as described above. If you are using a template then you should copy the file above to includes>language>english>modules>shipping>YOUR_TEMPLATE in this way if you ever update big royal mail then your changes to the description will not be updated. (If you are not using royal mail rates then I would not advise updating as it would overwrite your price changes). If you do this you could use medium parcel for heavy items.

If you are using royal mail and want to keep the modules. Let me know. Is heavy item more important that long item or other way round?
Hi
Most of my items fall-in within Royal Mails posting so I will be using Big RM modules for these. Some Items are excessive length or weight which Royal Mail do not handle cheaply. There is no preference to either, customers choice would lead this. Long items would be 3m plus, heavy items can be up to 20kg. We would love to have these postage free but alas it would cost us heavily (excuse the pun). When setting up attributes it would be cool if to state Heavy or Long item. a clone of a module will probably be my best bet, but I am no coder and would benefit some help. I would be willing to donate for assistance if anyone could help. Sorry to be a pain in the ########.