Big Royal Mail 3.0

[Man from Mars]

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 ########.

[VDecalS]

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 ########.

Can you utilize the attributes function included with Zen-Cart? I created a radio button called "oversized item - additional charge" applied $20.00 and made the radio button default so the customer cannot switch it off. Your price will remain the same with "starting at", but total charge will include the oversize fee and any other options they choose.

[brittainmark]

You could just change the description in the \includes\languages\english\modules\shipping\rmlongitem.php to long and heavy. if you want to change the attribute description which the customer does not see log in to admin then go to catalog>attribute controller then click on option values. Find the Long Item and click edit. Change the name to what you want. Then you can use the same attribute for both long and heavy items (as long as you have the weight set to 20kg max then all should be well).

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 ########.

[Millie63]

Hello lovely people

I've tried installing BigRoyalMail_V3.3.2 and I have a problem with editing and updating the following Small Parcel files:

rmamparcelsf (Royal Mail International Signed "Small Parcel" ver. 3.3.2)
rmamteuparcel (Royal Mail International Tracked EU "Small Parcel" ver. 3.3.2)
rmamtsparcel (Royal Mail International Tracked & Signed "Small Parcel" ver. 3.3.2)

When installing these modules I either get WARNING: An Error occurred, please refresh the page and try again. But then when I do and the module shows up there's something wrong with where the prices should be marked - it's just an empty box with no instructions. I tried putting in prices myself but it would not save. Pls see attached .jpg

My Unit weight is in 'gm' I have changed the other modules (letter, large letter etc) to reflect this (0.1 to 100 etc).
Funnily enough, both the 1st and 2nd class Signed small parcels modules work. It seems the problem is with the International Small parcels modules.

My zencart version is 1.5.1 This is the first time I'm trying to use BRM so it's a fresh installation. I'm installed the 'Install3.2.sql' patch but I noticed there is 'zen_Install3.2.sql' Should I have tried this instead. Also do I need to run any other sql patches?

Can anyone help me please?

Many thanks
Millie

[brittainmark]

Sorry to say this is a bug in the install function in the code. I have provided a sql patch file that will correct the issue.
Download and unzip then follow instructions below.
File:InstallFix.zip
To install the patch.
First back up your database
Then run the patch.
1) log in to you Admin.
2) Go to Tools>Install SQL Patches
3) Either copy and paste the contents of InstallFix.sql to the window and run.
4) or Browse to the file and select Upload to execute the file
5) Check the modules they should now have cost in that you can modify.
Regards
Mark

Hello lovely people

I've tried installing BigRoyalMail_V3.3.2 and I have a problem with editing and updating the following Small Parcel files:

rmamparcelsf (Royal Mail International Signed "Small Parcel" ver. 3.3.2)
rmamteuparcel (Royal Mail International Tracked EU "Small Parcel" ver. 3.3.2)
rmamtsparcel (Royal Mail International Tracked & Signed "Small Parcel" ver. 3.3.2)

When installing these modules I either get WARNING: An Error occurred, please refresh the page and try again. But then when I do and the module shows up there's something wrong with where the prices should be marked - it's just an empty box with no instructions. I tried putting in prices myself but it would not save. Pls see attached .jpg

My Unit weight is in 'gm' I have changed the other modules (letter, large letter etc) to reflect this (0.1 to 100 etc).
Funnily enough, both the 1st and 2nd class Signed small parcels modules work. It seems the problem is with the International Small parcels modules.

My zencart version is 1.5.1 This is the first time I'm trying to use BRM so it's a fresh installation. I'm installed the 'Install3.2.sql' patch but I noticed there is 'zen_Install3.2.sql' Should I have tried this instead. Also do I need to run any other sql patches?

Can anyone help me please?

Many thanks
Millie

[paperman]

Hi
Thanks for the excellent plugin.

Just installed on 1.5.4 and the Parcelforce module works fine but the EU ones do not show up as options. I ran the patch mentioned above and wonder if that was the wrong thing to do?

[brittainmark]

The patch above fixes the costs fields not appearing.
Not sure what you are saying for EU not appearing. Do you mean the EU options are not in the admin section to set up? or EU option is not appearing when you post an Item?

Hi
Thanks for the excellent plugin.

Just installed on 1.5.4 and the Parcelforce module works fine but the EU ones do not show up as options. I ran the patch mentioned above and wonder if that was the wrong thing to do?

[CandleMan]

Odd question but I cannot find the answer anywhere.
Since adding the mod, the delivery method has disappeared from my packing slips.
How do I add the delivery method back onto it so that it prints on the slip?

[brittainmark]

Odd question but I cannot find the answer anywhere.
Since adding the mod, the delivery method has disappeared from my packing slips.
How do I add the delivery method back onto it so that it prints on the slip?

Don't think this is caused by big royal mail. I assume you mean the packing slip is not showing the delivery method. I personally use the invoive for packing. However if you want to include the delivery method you would have to modify the packing slip php. This is found in //Your Site/Your admin/packingslip.php
The easyest way is just to add in all of the order totals lines just before the <table></td> statement about line 165 (unmodified zencaer 1.5.4). The code is

      <tr>
        <td align="right" colspan="8"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
<?php
  for ($i = 0, $n = sizeof($order->totals); $i < $n; $i++) {
    echo '          <tr>' . "\n" .
         '            <td align="right" class="'. str_replace('_', '-', $order->totals[$i]['class']) . '-Text">' . $order->totals[$i]['title'] . '</td>' . "\n" .
         '            <td align="right" class="'. str_replace('_', '-', $order->totals[$i]['class']) . '-Amount">' . $order->totals[$i]['text'] . '</td>' . "\n" .
         '          </tr>' . "\n";
  }
?>

This will put the total / sub total and packing method after the products.

If you only want the shipping method add the followingin the same place.

<tr>
        <td align="right" colspan="8"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
<?php
  for ($i = 0, $n = sizeof($order->totals); $i < $n; $i++) {
    if ($order->totals[$i]['class']=="ot_shipping"){
    echo '          <tr>' . "\n" .
         '            <td align="right" class="'. str_replace('_', '-', $order->totals[$i]['class']) . '-Text">' . $order->totals[$i]['title'] . '</td>' . "\n" .
         '            <td align="right" class="'. str_replace('_', '-', $order->totals[$i]['class']) . '-Amount">' . $order->totals[$i]['text'] . '</td>' . "\n" .
         '          </tr>' . "\n";
  }
  }
?>

Hope that helps.

[CandleMan]

Don't think this is caused by big royal mail. I assume you mean the packing slip is not showing the delivery method. I personally use the invoive for packing. However if you want to include the delivery method you would have to modify the packing slip php. This is found in //Your Site/Your admin/packingslip.php
The easyest way is just to add in all of the order totals lines just before the <table></td> statement about line 165 (unmodified zencaer 1.5.4). The code is

      <tr>
        <td align="right" colspan="8"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
<?php
  for ($i = 0, $n = sizeof($order->totals); $i < $n; $i++) {
    echo '          <tr>' . "\n" .
         '            <td align="right" class="'. str_replace('_', '-', $order->totals[$i]['class']) . '-Text">' . $order->totals[$i]['title'] . '</td>' . "\n" .
         '            <td align="right" class="'. str_replace('_', '-', $order->totals[$i]['class']) . '-Amount">' . $order->totals[$i]['text'] . '</td>' . "\n" .
         '          </tr>' . "\n";
  }
?>

This will put the total / sub total and packing method after the products.

If you only want the shipping method add the followingin the same place.

<tr>
        <td align="right" colspan="8"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
<?php
  for ($i = 0, $n = sizeof($order->totals); $i < $n; $i++) {
    if ($order->totals[$i]['class']=="ot_shipping"){
    echo '          <tr>' . "\n" .
         '            <td align="right" class="'. str_replace('_', '-', $order->totals[$i]['class']) . '-Text">' . $order->totals[$i]['title'] . '</td>' . "\n" .
         '            <td align="right" class="'. str_replace('_', '-', $order->totals[$i]['class']) . '-Amount">' . $order->totals[$i]['text'] . '</td>' . "\n" .
         '          </tr>' . "\n";
  }
  }
?>

Hope that helps.

Thank you that work fine