[Old] Royal Mail Modules

[Pixxi]

When i put the item weight as 0.1 in the new items page, everything is fine, on the shipping estimator it also says o.1kg, but when it gives the options it adds 3kg, this happens always, even if i change items weight it adds 3kg.

Take a look at posts 192/193 - it's a setting in the standard zen cart that adds a 3 unit tare weight to all shipping ('tare' is an allowance for the weight of the box/crate/packaging). It causes so many questions in the forums that it should really be set to zero in the standard zen distro.

Try that first and then report back - eg. large letter only goes up to 750g, and 2nd class packet only goes up to 1kg, so you may find the problems are different once you take the '3' off the tare. Although you should also be able to remove that '... can't be determined...' message, and there may still be a tweak necessary for the special delivery 9am.

It's 1.46am here now and we've been out with friends this evening, so I'm leaving that bit until tomorrow when I'm more awake ...

[Pixxi]

I'm very excited by this Royal Mail mod and would like to install on my zen cart shop. I have read through all posts and confused about the duplicated counties issue. Can someone please tell me what is the BEST version to install this mod? Is it best install on UK template (by Mutual Advantage) or just original zen cart?

1. The UK counties change quite regularly, so the counties that come as standard in the zen cart distro aren't up to date.

2. The counties list in the 'UK template' mod should be the most up to date, but if you run the SQL in the mod it will (IIRC) install additional (regional) counties which you may not want if you're not splitting the UK/Ireland into regions for your shipping.

I would suggest you make your own counties list up by comparing/editing the existing zen zones table (in the database) with reference to the list in the UK Template mod and adding/changing/deleting as you need to.

You can set the maximum order value in all of the RM mods - at that point they will (or should...) turn themselves off, leaving the free shipping option as the only one. You'll need to search the forum for info on how to set up the free shipping mod - there are lots of posts

[hudda]

Thanks Pixxi

What a swift reply!

Thanks for all your help, and sorry to bother you.

Thanks,

N.Hudda

[martyndw2005]

Hi,

I have just installed the latest version of this mod , having not used it before.

I get the following error when looking at shipping in admin:-

Warning: main(/home/otcafxm/public_html/alttest/includes/languages/english/modules/shipping/rm1stlargeletter.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/otcafxm/public_html/alttest/admin/modules.php on line 174

Warning: main(/home/otcafxm/public_html/alttest/includes/languages/english/modules/shipping/rm1stlargeletter.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/otcafxm/public_html/alttest/admin/modules.php on line 174

Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening '/home/otcafxm/public_html/alttest/includes/languages/english/modules/shipping/rm1stlargeletter.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/otcafxm/public_html/alttest/admin/modules.php on line 174

it continues for each shipping option that was added.

What i have done so far I have upgraded to 1.3.6 from 1.2.6 then checked that everything is working ok and installed this modules bu copying the files across.

I have not installed any of the sql files i was not sure about that.

i am currently running on a test site http://www.beeunique.co.uk/alttest/

Let me know if i need to provide any more information to get this resolved.

Please help

regards

Martyn

www.beeunique.co.uk

[Pixxi]

The error message is telling you that a language file for the mod (rm1stlargeletter.php) is not where it should be:

/home/otcafxm/public_html/alttest/includes/languages/english/modules/shipping/rm1stlargeletter.php

Upload all the files in the mod to your server again, making sure they all go into their respective folders, then report back if you're still having problems.

[martyndw2005]

Hi,

I reuploaded files, i had put them in a template folder. I copied them to the \modules\shipping\ folder and now it seems to be working. Thanks for your very quick response.

regards

Martyn

[martyndw2005]

Hi,

The rates seem to be are based on weight, which is great however my store has set prices based on cost of items rather than weight. Is there a way to change this for the different options?

For example airmail (small packet) has different zones and the related cost for the different weights.

If there is another option that caters for my store let me know.

The mod looks great.

regards

Martyn

[Pixxi]

All of the modules are based on weight - but if you want to try 'banding' your products into specific Royal Mail charging bands, you could see if it's possible to play around with either:

1. The weights you set on your products, and/or

2. The weight bands in the RM modules

so that it works out the way you want, although you may be better off using one of the other shipping modules designed to do that, such as 'per unit' - depending on what you want to achieve.

I've just had a look at your main (old) site to see what your postal bands are, but you have it down for maintenance right now, so sorry, but I can't be more specific at the moment.

[martyndw2005]

Hi,

Do you know how i can clone the modules and change it to cost for item rather than weight or do this from the start.

I have a zones setup at the moment and would like to clone that so people can choose the different options depending on what is wanted.

I can't setup my store by weight i simply have too many items.

for example:
uk only royal mail 1st class
uk only royal mail 1st class recorded
europe (zone1) airmail
europe (zone1) airmail + insurance
Rest of world (zone2)
Rest of world (zone2) + insurance

We have the zones setup in our current setup and prices.

based on cost of item.

Please let me know the best way for me to do this please.

i just need to know how to do this, we have been getting customers to add in items for extra postage items but it does not look that good.

Regards



Martyn

[Pixxi]

You could clone and rearrange them to work on cost, I would think - but, depending on how many order values : postage bands you have for each module type (eg. 1st class, 1st class recorded, etc.), it might be better in your case if you cloned the 'Table Rate' module instead.

The table rate module allows you to enter a list of order values : postal charges.