Canada Post module

[carley]

I just called Canada Post's help line for their "sell online" accounts, to see if they might be able to help with getting Lettermail quotes to show up or see what the error is on their end.

The person I spoke with said that they don't offer quotes for lettermail, to show directly on sites. I let them know that I do have it working for USA & INTL quotes & that those quotes are showing using this module and their "table rates", but he still said that there is no such feature that they offer. So they must just not be aware of how this module works or something.

Anyway, they unfortunately couldn't help, but he did suggest to just set up a "flat rate" shipping option that would cover the amount charged for any Lettermail shipments within Canada. So if I'm unable to get the Canadian Lettermail quotes to work with this module, i may try that.
I'm also wondering now if i should try to set it up through the "Table Rates" shipping module that's already included in zencart. I'm thinking that maybe I can set that up for the same table rates, and put the "Shipping Zone" to Canada (if it even allows that) if that will maybe work to provide Lettermail quotes for my Canadian customers.
I may try that now - I'll update here with the results, in case anyone else is having the same issue as me.

[carley]

Nevermind , my idea to the "Table Rates" module to fix my Canadian Lettermail Quotes issue won't work - it doesn't take into consideration the dimensions of the item, so it will offer the rate even on items that have dimensions that are too big.

It looks like the same applies to using the "Flat Rate" thing that the Canada Post customer service rep suggested.

So it looks like I'm back to the issue from before - my "estimate shipping" button/pop up in my zencart supplies Lettermail quotes for USA & INTL customers, but not Canadian ones (for some random, unknown reason). Oh well, it was worth a shot

I just called Canada Post's help line for their "sell online" accounts, to see if they might be able to help with getting Lettermail quotes to show up or see what the error is on their end.

The person I spoke with said that they don't offer quotes for lettermail, to show directly on sites. I let them know that I do have it working for USA & INTL quotes & that those quotes are showing using this module and their "table rates", but he still said that there is no such feature that they offer. So they must just not be aware of how this module works or something.

Anyway, they unfortunately couldn't help, but he did suggest to just set up a "flat rate" shipping option that would cover the amount charged for any Lettermail shipments within Canada. So if I'm unable to get the Canadian Lettermail quotes to work with this module, i may try that.
I'm also wondering now if i should try to set it up through the "Table Rates" shipping module that's already included in zencart. I'm thinking that maybe I can set that up for the same table rates, and put the "Shipping Zone" to Canada (if it even allows that) if that will maybe work to provide Lettermail quotes for my Canadian customers.
I may try that now - I'll update here with the results, in case anyone else is having the same issue as me.

[janissaire]

Sorry Royal have been hunting around the Cda post webste looking for the box wieght thing you mentioned - no luck - do you have a link?

[Royal]

Sorry Royal have been hunting around the Cda post webste looking for the box wieght thing you mentioned - no luck - do you have a link?

Hello janissaire,

That's okay! It's in the "Add / Modify / Delete Boxes".

You will see:

Description | Weight Limit of Box (kg) | Box Weight (kg) | Length (cm) | Width (cm) | Height (cm)

[Royal]

Hello Everyone,

Carley got her Canada Post working. Well done!

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I've just make correction and change "Regular Mail" back to "Lettermail".

In Version 1.3.9h1: Regular Mail is Lettermail
Version 1.3.9h2 will show Lettermail

When editing always be careful. Always look out for these in red: '....' or "...."

If you see "Regular Mail" just change it to "Lettermail". When I update the module I forgot to change "Regular Mail" to "Lettermail".

includes/modules/shipping/canadapost.php

or

Check post 167 & 168: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...=94151&page=17

Sorry for any incovenience this might cause anyone.

[janissaire]

Hi Royal,

You've been a great help so far can you check out this post:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=176670

I'm using easy populate for my store and I'm wondering if there's a way to get it to feed the size wieght dimensions from the spreadsheet into the Canada Post module area without having to code each and every one of the products in by hand one at a time via the catalogue in admin.

Thanks.

[Royal]

Hi Royal,

You've been a great help so far can you check out this post:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=176670

I'm using easy populate for my store and I'm wondering if there's a way to get it to feed the size wieght dimensions from the spreadsheet into the Canada Post module area without having to code each and every one of the products in by hand one at a time via the catalogue in admin.

Thanks.

Hello janissaire,

I've not tried Easy Populate. I wouldn't know where to begin.

[carley]

Hello Everyone,

Carley got her Canada Post working. Well done!

I did indeed get it working & I'm so happy about it! I forgot to post here after PMing you about getting it working Royal, sorry about that!

Now i just have to get a ton of other modules taken care of (waiting to hear back from a company that makes some of them - they said they can try to let me know if any of them will cause issues or "not co-operate" with any of the others before i try installing them) and then my stores cart will be ready to go Live!
I'm so excited, it's taken a long time to get to this point, even though I really don't have all that much done LOL

[janissaire]

Royal - can you build in a simple (well ok I call it simple - maybe it isn't) security feature for the the shipping module?

Here's my idea -

Once the module is installed there is, like other modules - items for Name / Password or the site you need to connect to.

i.e. Module talks to Canada Post

User name - Tony
Password - Spumoni

Now this isn't and issue if you are a single person running your own store BUT if you have extra admins - can they also see this info?

Can we make the side panel in the admin section look like:

User Name - Tony
Password - *******

That way, if you get a disgruntled admin - and they want to change everything before they quit - they can't because you have already limited their acces to information.

It also keeps you from having to change all of your passwords on those other sites everytime an admin quits.

Is this an easy fix or add on?