[Old] Royal Mail Modules

[trollboy]

Love these modules - thanks for the hard work - looking forward to the small parcels mods begin available,

One small problem I noticed with the "letter" mods:
If the weight of an item is less that 100g, but the weight of the item plus tare/packaging is more that 100g, then the letter shipping method is displayed, but is listed as "The shipping rate cannot be determined at this time".
Presumably the filter using the maximum weight criterion to hide unavailable shipping methods is using bare weight rather than item+packaging (which it then uses to calculate the cost).

[bouncingltd]

Thank you very much for bringing that to my attention, I'm still working on the version two release so will incorporate any bug fixes into that. For version 2 we shall be having almost every service offered, the upgrades will not longer remove shop owner handling fees and the extra insurance for signed for services etc... is going to be moved into the define pages i.e. Royal mail increases signed for from £0.68 to £0.72 pence, no need for an upgrade, edit one line of text and it should be sorted. Other fixes and advice has been taken on board too, I think it should be finalised by Monday night, though progress is slow with so many services and this tare thing may delay it slightly further.

Thank you

Philip.

[bouncingltd]

I've had a look at the tare/ shipping weight issue where the "The shipping rate cannot be determined at this time" comes up and it can't be solved quickly. In the shipping estimator, the $shipping_weight is not yet defined, only the total weight of the order, so the module is "enabled" at the time that ZC looks to see if a relevant shipping option exists.

When ZC sees that the "total_weight" is valid, it then goes on to try and quote for it, and only during the quoting process does it then add the tare value and find that a rate is invalid, hence the disparity. I could modify the zen cart core code, but that will be on a back burner for a while, since as discussed before, changing core code leads to upgrade problems.

[bouncingltd]

http://bouncing.org/big_royalmail_v2.0-beta-2.zip

Almost totally overhauled, as yet the copyright and the versioning has not yet been updated in these files. Installs and removes do not remove handling fees that you may have set. You will need to remove and re-install to re-correct the rates as there have been rate adjustments as bug fixes, and the new way of doing things, like adding 68 pence to services rather than re-writing the full ones.

ukzr.php has not been particularly overhauled. Many thanks to all especially Pixxi who refuses to be creditted.

Philip.

[firehorse]

Hi,

I'm testing out beta 2.

I have uk templates installed.
I did install Royal Mail v.1.5 but it did not have standard parcels.
I've installed v.2.0.beta and love the facts it has standard parcels with the different insurance levels.

However, when I reduce the number of items, the weight in the shipping module does not decrease.

I've emptied out the shopping cart, added one item of 1.5kg but when I got to checkout, the parcelpost is saying 4.5000kg.

Any clues?

Thanks
Alan

[Pixxi]

I have the 2.0 b2 installed and it works fine.

Have you checked to make sure you don't have a tare weight (of 3kg) set in admin->configuration->Shipping/Packaging?

[firehorse]

Hi Pixxi,

I have the 2.0 b2 installed and it works fine.

Have you checked to make sure you don't have a tare weight (of 3kg) set in admin->configuration->Shipping/Packaging?

Thanks for that :-)

Best regards
Alan

[bouncingltd]

Good Afternoon,

Now would this be the weight in the estimator or the checkout procedure ?

thank you

Philiip

[firehorse]

Hi, Phillip,

Good Afternoon,

Now would this be the weight in the estimator or the checkout procedure ?

thank you

Philiip

Pixxi sorted me out, thanks.

Just not used to all the different features in zencart!

Thanks
Alan

[AngelusUK]

Hi all - I installed the royal mail module today and now when I go test it out, as soon as I go to checkout and then to the shipping mage, my page squashes up and I get errors at the top of the page - can anyone please help?

many thanks on advance