[Old] Royal Mail Modules

[bouncingltd]

i ship lingerie, so i use packets at the moment i offer free shipping but how will the RM be used for my site as lingerie is very light the packets could have goods in access of £100 but very light weight, how does the RM insurance of £32 affect me.

Only use specialdelivery modules with the extra insurance, first or second class, signed for or not, and you are not covered. Although apparently you can insure a "standard parcel" for more, though that module has not yet been written.

You could go the other way and "insure yourself", e.g. add £2 to the postage of each item in the handling section of the module and then just claim the maximum £32 back from the post office.

[Pixxi]

i ship lingerie, so i use packets at the moment i offer free shipping but how will the RM be used for my site as lingerie is very light the packets could have goods in access of £100 but very light weight, how does the RM insurance of £32 affect me.

I'm just in the process of cloning some more mods for standard parcels based on one of the RM mods Philip has provided, which will include the extra insurance/compensation cost and take over from the £32 point.

The idea is to produce:

rmstdparcels100 (order value up to £100 incl. compensation)
rmstdparcels250 (order value from £100 up to £250 incl. compensation)
rmstdparcels500 (order value from £250 up to £500 incl. compensation)

and also similar ones for:

airmail500
airsure500
airmail int. signed for 500

(order value over £32 up to £500, incl. insurance/compensation)

Alternatively, you could just use the existing 'Special Delivery' option which would cover you up to £500.

[Pixxi]

Philip,

This may well be local to my set up, but could you see if you get the same please?

If you leave the airmail mods set to £32 (no other non-RM mods installed), put over £32 in the cart and chose a foreign country in the shipping estimator (and update), does your entire shipping estimator disappear?

Just wondering if this is connected with the code that removes any shipping modules that aren't appropriate, and whether the shipping estimator is set not to show at all if there aren't any modules to list?

If so, maybe it could fail gracefully with something like 'Please contact us for shipping rates' in the shipping estimator.

I came across this when I had only the Airsure module turned on for airmail, and chose a european country - by chance I'd chosen one of the countries that wasn't in Airsure's list. Maybe not a big problem (if you find it happens too) since it's likely other airmail mods will be turned on also. And if we up the airmail mods to £500 insured, less chance still. But just a small refinement perhaps.

Having said that, it probably won't happen for you

[bouncingltd]

Pixxi,

I noticed the same about 2 weeks back, it's a zencart things, if no quotes are valid the whole thing goes bye-bye, my mod or not, I did change it but then can't remember why I changed it back. It's something to do with sizeof($quotes)
Oh yes, because it's zencart core, I was reluctant to change it on a public release, I was going to put "Sorry, no shipping options available at the moment, please create an account, and we'll quote especially for you" but my reluctance came from, if zencart upgrades the estimator, the current estimator should work as it's based on the existing stylesheet structure, whereas if I start re-writing the template, there's a good chance that a zencart upgrade will not work with it. I'll have a look again at it tomorrow night.

Philip.

[bouncingltd]

Okay I managed to get a version working tonight, but it does require modding the file includes/modules/shipping_estimator.php

I've got the selection boxes back up and the update button and the counties in countries if they are defined. I suspect it would go gaga for "free shipping" err but this is a shipping module so that may not matter at the moment.

Now what would we like the "Nice you have no shipping options message" to be ?

[Pixxi]

Hi Philip,

That was quick work

Maybe something like 'Sorry, no shipping options currently available, please contact us for a quote', or even a slightly more posh version with the country code inserted, ie. '... currently available to ES. Please ...'.

The second version might also be useful for finding problems when the estimator/modules don't work as expected, or the customer emails the shop owner and quotes the error message ... ?

I've emailed you the cloned rmstdparcels100/250/500, and the Int Signed For 500 and Airsure 500 modules.

Let me know if you can't get at them

[bouncingltd]

Maybe something like 'Sorry, no shipping options currently available, please contact us for a quote', or even a slightly more posh version with the country code inserted, ie. '... currently available to ES. Please ...'.

Small problem with that, with the bug you defined, you'll notice that you can still click on the checkout button, there it is written:

"Sorry, we are not shipping to your region at this time. Please contact us for alternat
e arrangements."

in red (that's a ZC spelling prob with alternate). This is defined in /includes/languages/english/checkout_shipping.php and I'm not sure at the current time whether the defined constant for the page we're altering will have the regions/ countries easily accessible. So far I have just done

"Sorry, we cannot calculate your shipping at this time. Please contact us so that we can arrange a quote tailored especially for you."

which will go into /includes/languages/english/shopping_cart.php at least then it's editing a defined constant rather than editing scary PHP code.

[faulkns]

Hi Again

Got some problems I need advice on. Been working hard on setting up web site. Put in the modules and all seemed well.

But I keep getting 'shipping rate cannot be determined at this time' on postage. Tried everything and totally frustrated now as its about the only practical thing stopping me testing paypal and going live!

Help!!

[faulkns]

Don't worry sorted I think. All to do with config settings for shipping. Had a brainwave and changed

[bouncingltd]

Which module was it then ? and how did you fix it, even if it was something overlooked, if it's posted here, it may very well stop someone asking me the question again, or it could make it into the instructions.

Thanks

Philip.