[Old] Royal Mail Modules

[DanAllkins]

Sorry the forum does not seem to be telling me when there are new threads, Royal Mail should work with everything apart from a bug with "free shipping" which is irritating but it does still work. How heavy are your items ? and what cost ?, we'll try and get one thing working at a time.

I've done as Chuck said and it started to give me shipping rates... but when I go to check out the price for the shipping is way over what it should be.

The item I'm testing with is a DVD, weight=0.125kg, but when it comes to check out its saying 3.125kg and giving a hight shipping cost.... any ideas?



Cheers
Dan

[Pixxi]

Go into admin->configuration->shipping/packaging

You'll see a setting there for '3.0' - set that to zero. It's adding an extra 3.0 units to your weight.

Philip - will do. (BTW, did you mean 'shipping.php'? - that seems to be in includes/classes, I don't think your mod has changed that file, has it?)

[Pixxi]

Dan - to be more precise:

Change:

Package Tare Small to Medium - added percentage:weight 0:3

to:

Package Tare Small to Medium - added percentage:weight 0:0

... long time since I looked at that page

[bouncingltd]

I've done as Chuck said and it started to give me shipping rates... but when I go to check out the price for the shipping is way over what it should be.

The item I'm testing with is a DVD, weight=0.125kg, but when it comes to check out its saying 3.125kg and giving a hight shipping cost.... any ideas?



Cheers
Dan

And the Pixxi strikes once more ! he always answers that one ! it's earlier on in the thread too.

[DanAllkins]

Thanks Guys! that seems to have worked a treat!!!! I owe you one..
Now all I have to do is work out why the Royal mail icons are clipping the center col... might edit so it dont have such a long string of text.



But before I go on... I'll post this question in the correct forum.

Thanks for you help again Guys!

Dan

[bouncingltd]

Thanks Guys! that seems to have worked a treat!!!! I owe you one..
Now all I have to do is work out why the Royal mail icons are clipping the center col... might edit so it dont have such a long string of text.



But before I go on... I'll post this question in the correct forum.

Thanks for you help again Guys!

Dan

Generally that is a problem with the style sheet layout or the main box being based around a percentage of your screen, you can either fix the css or put a <br /> in the text which is what I ended up doing in one section of my personal site. You could also just omit Royal Mail or something. Edit the files under /languages/ english for whichever ones are too big, and then remember when you upgrade, to fix them again, Oh and please upgrade to the next version if you are using the optional shipping.php, it's quite important.

[Pixxi]

And the Pixxi strikes once more ! he always answers that one ! it's earlier on in the thread too.

Once you've spent ages trying to figure out something like that yourself ages ago when you tried to set up your first cart, it tends to stick in your mind

Now all I have to do is work out why the Royal mail icons are clipping the center col...

Philip will probably explain this better ( ) but it's probably because you have both left and right columns set 'on' and a standard-width shop - so there isn't much room for the full string of characters. Solution might therefore be to either:

a) Edit the text to make it shorter (as you mentioned), or

b) Make the center section of your shop wider by either removing the right columns, or extending the overall shop width a little, or

c) See if you can get the text to break onto the next line (not sure how that would look).


(Edit: told you Philip would explain it better ... )

[DanAllkins]

Oh and please upgrade to the next version if you are using the optional shipping.php, it's quite important.

eh ? lol sorry lost me there

[bouncingltd]

eh ? lol sorry lost me there

there's a file in big_royalmail_v2.xxx/ optional called shipping.php if you are using it please upgrade because I made a boo boo and left in some code that's pointing towards my own website !

[Pixxi]

v 2.11 /optional:

shipping_estimator.php
shopping_cart.php
total_big_royalmail_uninstall.sql
tpl_modules_shipping_estimator.php
ukzr_optional_county_install-0.0.1.sql
ukzr_total_uninstall.sql