Drop Shipping Purchase Orders Module for v1.3.8

[srturner47]

hairydog - I see the same problem. This has nothing to do with the dropship mod; it appears to be an oversight in the TY Package Tracker mod. I don't use this page often, as I use the PO-Enter Tracking page that is included with the drop ship mod. FYI - the "t" for add tracking id essentially is the edit orders page with a tracking number option.

cropinstop - that would be very generous....right now I simply don't have time to address this problem, but if I can't figure it out, when I do have time, I'll PM you. Thanks!

[gabstero]

By the way, and this is just my 2 cents, I think you are making a big mistake if you intend to charge shipping this way. Free and reduced shipping make a HUGE difference for internet customers. Charging more for adding items to their cart doesn't make sense -- customers should be rewarded for doing so, not punished with additional shipping. Frankly, I think you'd be better off losing money on an order here and there. What difference does it make if you are doing a ton of business? Just my two cents...I'll step down off my soapbox now.

I never thought of this the way you put it - and really it makes MUCH SENSE!!! Adding a list of shipping charges to each item in the cart is not something I would be attracted in my online shopping experience. You are very right.
The only thing is that it would make the store admin's life easier.

For example now I have a UPS shipping set as my default shipping in my store even if one SC is shipping FedEx, while others are shipping UPS. I loose on some shipments, and I gain on the others. It seems to be working just fine for now.

An elegant way would be to calculate the total of each SC's product and display a total for the customer on the checkout page saying something like "Shipping Fee for your order: $xx.xx" (without specifying the carrier!!).
Further on, the shipping fee is displayed for the store Administrator on the PO's sent to each SC.

Does that make sense?

Gabstero.

[srturner47]

gabstero - Sure does. You might want to try table shipping. It lets you choose the shipping amount based on the total order amount. For example, orders <$25 could charge $5.00 shipping, orders $25-50 could cost $10 and orders $50 or greater could cost $15. I know that still leaves some uncertainty for you as a seller with multiple subcontractors, but it is probably your best bet for the time being.

[srturner47]

New Version 3.1 is out! Here is a link:

Version 3.1 Here!

Please read the instruction carefully before upgrading. In a previous post I wrote about replacing three files. I've fixed other problems, so you really need to replace all files. In addition, there is one file that needs to be removed if upgrading from 3.0 to 3.1. Read the instructions first!

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V3.1 CHANGELOG

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This is a bug fix release. If you are using 3.0, I highly recommend you upgrade.
1) Fixed problems with adding products on send PO for unknown customer page.
2) Fixed heading problems that caused issues with other headings in Zen Cart.
3) Renamed send PO for unknown customer page to be more consistent with mod.
4) Consolidated files to be more consistent.

Please read the instructions for upgrading carefully!

Special Thanks to cropinstop!

[AddVant]

Yes, I have this problem and no I don't have edit orders installed.

However, I can't make it work anyway: it does not generate pdf packing lists and it does not send out any content in the html part of the email: just

[FONT='Courier New']$EMAIL_MESSAGE_HTML[/FONT]
[/FONT]

Thanks for the module and support :)

We have similar issue with the new version 3.1. The PDF is generated as it should.
When we send PO email with no HTML than it sent as it should.
When we send with HTML than we get bellow the subject line (in the body bellow the logo):
$EMAIL_MESSAGE_HTML no other details show neither from the .txt files or data. Next thing we see is the footer Copyright line.
- we were able to send other HTML email with no errors.

We have other issue regarding re-sending PO: the PO number (after the "-" is changed every time we resend it - this could cause duplicate shipping to end user - PO number that sent should not changed.

Thanks
AddVant

[srturner47]

AddVant - Sorry. Unfortunately, these are meant to act the way they do. I never implemented HTML emails with this mod because I don't use them. As for the second number, this seems like the behavior you would want. At least it does for me. Here is an example:

Order#502 is sent to ABC Distributing as PO 502-111. They email back and say "We are out of stock!" So--you resend this to another dropshipper, XYZ Distributing, who can fulfill the order . It gets sent as PO 502-112. You already know 502-111 won't be filled because they are out of stock, and in these situations you are probably communicating with your drop shipper about this. So, 502-112 should be the only one that ships.

Make sense?

Another reason you wouldn't want this is that you may need to split a PO up when resending, in which case you would end up with two PO with the same number.

[XantosNew]

hi thanks for the great mod,
I have installed it, it sends PO to the dropshippers in txt format.
It generates and attaches packing list.

It does not send any notification, to the customer with sending PO to DSH
it does not change the status of the order in the DB.

Where could be the problem?
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ZC v1.3.8
Drop Shipping PO Module V 3.1

tracking switched off
(TyTracker not installed)

[cropinstop]

New problem with "Send for Unknown Customer" (installed version = 3.1b).

Seems to be getting confused SOMETIMES with the name of the option selected.

Input at admin screen

Step 1: Wedding papers
Step 2: Anniversary Rings
Step 3: # of sheets - 1
Step 4: 1

Output to email
1 x Anniversary Rings, Album Style: 1 1157071502

The display after hitting OK on the admin screen had the same error.

If I select the option of # sheets: 10, the error does not occur

I can give you access to my site if you can not reproduce it on yours

[srturner47]

XantosNew - It is not designed to send a customer notification when the PO is sent. The order notes are ammended with a comment, but I assumed that most customers do not want an email just to say "Submitted to Shipping Department" or whatever you want to say here. It should change from Pending to Processing at this time with no email notification.

When the item ships, it should change from Processing to Delivered. At this point, the customer is notified by email with the tracking number as well as the order notes being updated. Of course, this won't apply to you because you aren't using TY Package Tracker.

TY tracker shouldn't have any effect on the behavior when a PO is sent. I really don't know why this won't work for you, but I can lead you in the right direction. The code that does this can be found in send_pos.php on line 466 and reads like this:

$query978=mysql_query("SELECT orders_status FROM ".TABLE_ORDERS." WHERE orders_id='$passitw'")
or die("Failed to connect database: 1");
$row978=mysql_fetch_array($query978, MYSQL_NUM);
if ($row978[0] == 1) {
$query555=mysql_query("INSERT INTO ".TABLE_ORDERS_STATUS_HISTORY."
(orders_status_id, orders_id, date_added,
customer_notified, comments)
values ('2','$tm1',now(),'0','".PO_SENT_COMMENTS."')")
or die(mysql_error());
mysql_query("update " . TABLE_ORDERS . "
set orders_status = '2', last_modified
=
now()
where orders_id ='$tm1'");
}

The first query checks to see if the order has already been marked as processing. This is so that if you send the order to several different subcontractors the order won't get remarked each time. The if statement checks this, and if the order status is 1 (Pending) it writes the order status as 2 with the comments you specified in Admin/Configuration/Purchase Orders/PO-Sent Comments to the database.

[srturner47]

cropinstop - That would be very helpful. Send me an email when I can access it and I will take a look. Also, could you please email me with a few examples of when it does and doesn't work -- This will make my life a lot easier. Thanks!

Also, just an FYI - In the meantime you can just edit the values before sending it. I designed this so that everything is fully editable before sending the email.

By the way, what's the deal with the 1157071502?