[Old] Royal Mail Modules

[steve1965]

Try looking at this.... https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=204 Hope that helps.

mate

steve

[steve1965]

right everything is fine for the uk, i have just had a customer on the phone he does not have a shipping option from northern Ireland ? how do i insert zones manually , i have read the ukzr installation.pdf that comes with the moduel, but i dont know how to install them

Zone 1 you should have United Kingdom and Scotland, Wales and England if you have
Scotland, Wales & England installed. The easy way to tell this is to try and buy something and
check is Scotland, Wales or England appear in the drop down ( i only have the uk)

For Zone 2 you should have insert these zones manually: (as mentioned above there is no way to
predicating which ones you have installed i.e. “Ross & Cromarty” as one zone or seperately as
“Ross-shire” and “Cromartyshire”). ( i dont understand how too ?)

i cant add a subzone as the country doesnt appear in the drop down , if i try to add norther Ireland as a country it asks for ISO CODE 2 and ISO CODE 3 and ADDRESS FORMAT how do i find out what the isocode 2 and iso code 3 are ?

same for Scottish highlands.

steve

[mR JoLLy]

Steve I am just running into a few issues with the postal zones myself. I have got the cart running and practically configured without having to resort to additional help, I find I learn the subject better that way. I have to admit defeat on the zones however as the shipping estimator is reporting errant charges. Here is my background. This module has helped greatly with my setup which I am concentrating on the UK only at the moment.

I have all the countries listed and they include, UK, England, Wales, Scotland, N. Ireland, RO Ireland, Isle of Man and the Scilly Isles.

I have the UK zone with everyone in the UK listed except RO Ireland. These places are then repeated in additional zones for their respective areas, England, Scotland, Wales, Cannel Islands, N. Ireland, RO Ireland, and Isle of Man.

OK the Zone definitions, are set up as per the instructions I think
UKZR: Zone 1: United Kingdom, Scotland, England, Wales. all set to "all zones"
UKZR: Zone 2: Scotland, with all the outer regions specified AND because they are also listed in the United Kingdom list there is a duplicate list with the same outer regions of Scotland in the Country "United Kingdom"
UKZR: Zone 3: Isle of Man, Northern Ireland, Isle of Scilly with "all zones"

OK when I use the shipping estimator I get the following:

Country: United Kingdom, State Province: Glasgow - UK Zone 1 and the correct fee.

Country: Scotland, State Province: Glasgow - UK Zone 1 and the correct fee.

Country: United Kingdom, State Province: Bute - UK Zone 1 and the wrong fee.
(the Bute region is in my zone 2 listing with Scotland and United Kingdom countries)

Country: Scotland State Province: Bute - UK Zone 2 and the correct fee.

So clearly there is something wrong with my logic and I would appreciate some input to correct my error.

Naturally I can see where the errors are coming from, but I thought there was some logic looking at the zones when it's conducting the calculations?? I don't really know so I will stop before I make a fool of myself

Thanks in advance.

Nigel

[mR JoLLy]

OK to further qualify what is going wrong I see the error coming from the way the Scottish highlands are part of several zones.

Using Bute as an area in the Highlands and therefore should be part of a postal zone 2 charge. It receives postal zone 1 charges currently because (I think) it is also included in the United Kingdom area zone, also the Scotland area zone.

So
UKZR Zone 1 Mainland UK. Includes the United Kingdom area zone, and the Scotland zone, both of which include Bute in their listings.

UKZR Zone 2 Scottish Highlands. only includes the regions of Scotland that are in the Highlands.

When I was setting it up I followed the instructions to the letter or so I thought

I really would appreciate a pointer here to resolve this dilemma!

Regards.

Nigel

[mR JoLLy]

If anyone has answers to my issues above I would be grateful. Is there another thread more active than this one per chance??

Regards

Nigel

[enquirer66]

I'm a little confused. Is the Big Royal Mail a development of this module? The installation for Big Royal Mail does not specify any SQL patch to be run but 3 are included in the download. However, it is not clear which, if any, one should use. Can someone please clarify? Thanks.

[mR JoLLy]

There is a text file in the root of the folder "install.txt" use that and the adobe pdf file in /Docs to install. You don't actually need to run any of the scripts, it all depends on your zen version and the way you have your countries set up.

Details are in the pdf file.


Nigel

[some name not taken]

Your zones look right to me. - Your rates are not getting screwed up by the Tare value or some other stupid addition that Zen Cart makes in the background, by any chance?

Also, I don't mean to add to your headaches with the BRM contribution (which is a really nice update), but letters can only be 240mm x 165mm and not more than 5mm in thickness, whilst large letters can only be 353mm x 250mm and not more than 25mm in thickness.

I have tried to add length and width (in place of thickness) values to Zen Cart but cannot get them working, and then there is the added problem of integrating them with BRM.

I also investigated the possibility of adding a filter to the BRM so it would not use certain postage options with filtered category/product IDs and the possibility of expanding the contribution so you could specify that certain postage services not be used in the product listing details page for serious fine tuning of the postage services. - Both of these would have the added advantage of not needing to add length or width variables into Zen Cart and the database.

[some name not taken]

Discovered another problem with BRM: it does not seem to work with the Google Checkout mod.

- The mod picks up on the BRM modules no problem, but lists each as not being configured even when they are.

I'm not sure what needs to be done to fix this, but I would guess that the values being passed to the checkout are not in a recognised format because the PayPal Express Checkout seems to have no problems whatsoever recognising them.

[topcat24]

It does work with googlecheckout you just have to put the shipping tables that you use into the shipping_methods.php file (or replace it with shipping_methods_uk.php ,will have to add ukzr manually) and make sure that the API callback is going to https://<url-site-url>/googlecheckout/responsehandler.php

If you have any luck in getting filtered categories/products then that would be a great help