[Old] Royal Mail Modules

[barricades]

I've done the changes for World Zone 10 (USA) if anyone's interested but only for datapost.

In admin>modules>shipping>international datapost>edit then go to the box for World zone 10 and replace the prices/weights with:

0.50:43.99, 1.00:47.79, 1.50:51.59, 2.00:55.39, 2.50:59.19, 3.00:61.79, 3.50:64.39, 4.00:66.99, 4.50:69.59, 5.00:72.19, 5.50:75.09, 6.00:77.99, 6.50:80.89, 7.00:83.79, 7.50:86.69, 8.00:89.59, 8.50:92.49, 9.00:95.39, 9.50:98.29, 10.00:101.19, 10.50:103.79, 11.00:106.39, 11.50:108.99, 12.00:111.59, 12.50:114.19, 13.00:116.79, 13.50:119.39, 14.00:121.99, 14.50:124.59, 15.00:127.19, 15.50:129.49, 16.00:131.79, 16.50:134.09, 17.00:136.39, 17.50:138.69, 18.00:140.99, 18.50:143.29, 19.00:145.59, 19.50:147.89, 20.00:150.19, 20.50:152.49, 21.00:154.79, 21.50:157.09, 22.00:159.39, 22.50:161.69, 23.00:163.99, 23.50:166.29, 24.00:168.59, 24.50:170.89, 25.00:173.19, 25.50:175.49, 26.00:177.79, 26.50:180.09, 27.00:182.39, 27.50:184.69, 28.00:186.99, 28.50:189.29, 29.00:191.59, 29.50:193.89, 30.00:196.19

then update and it's sorted.

If anyone's bothered doing the rest of them and feels like sharing it'd be appreciated :)

[philip_clarke]

If anyone does have the other figures, or the spreadsheet then I can always recopile the zip file and upload an updated module for everyone else.

[blackjm75]

Problem is that they get updated each year to so 1st of april 2009 they change again.

[barricades]

thats true, but at the same time people who use parcelforce do need to have the correct prices.

Perhaps people would be willing to do parts, if there was enough of us it would be dead easy.

I'm up for it, anyone else?

[philip_clarke]

I'm releasing some security software this weekend (probably Sunday), after I've done that I'll be a little freer to have a look at the module. I could probably just release a parcelforce patch, or maybe the time has come to split the modules up a bit, if someone can just dig out the current spreadsheet showing zones and prices etc... it would help speed me up as I'll have to configure a test server anyway since I don't use them myself.

Philip.

[meknownowt]

I will now eat my own words.

This is how google checkout works and it's really quite good but you have to configure it very carefully.

Right here goes then first off go here:

http://<YOUR_WEBSITE>/googlecheckout/responsehandler.php

and check if you get this type of error message

Cannot open /var/www/html/googlecheckout/logs/response_error.log file. Logs are not writable, set them to 777

So you set them to read write or owned by the webserver.

What happens is that you click on that Google button and it sends you to google with a call back to get the shipping rates that you have specified/ installed. When you set up google checkout then you put in default values for your service in case the call back fails, and this is why I thought it was a flat rate. So if set up correctly it goes.

• Click on button
• go to google
• google calls your shop for the shipping rates available for the weight of the item
• the rates appears in the select

if the call home fails, then it reverts to default values you have set up.

To try and diagnose the problem is a bit "tricky" visiting the googleresponse page above is helpful in that it if you have correct permission to write to your log files, then it presents you with a password access box ! This is the first time that I have seen true two way communication between a payment module and shipping rates.

So UK people,

• install "big royal mail"
• then install google checkout,
• then copy googlecheckout/shipping_methods_uk.php to overwrite shipping_methods.php.
• then visit
  
  http://<YOUR_WEBSITE>/googlecheckout/responsehandler.php
  
  
  to see if you get errors (and remember on a test site google may still not be able to communicate with your shop).
• put in default values for the UK shipping modules in case communication does fail in the google payment module.
• remove all the USA shipping options at the bottom which is irrelevant by setting GoogleCheckout Carrier Calculated Shipping to false

That should then work (paypal donations to [email protected] for having worked this through and having written the modules in the first place).

Philip.

When I try the http://<YOUR_WEBSITE>/googlecheckout/responsehandler.php with my own site address, a box pops up and requests sign in details, have tried all the ones I can think of but none will get me any further.


put in default values for the UK shipping modules in case communication does fail in the google payment module.

Where is the question for that, as even though I don't think I can use the flat rate system, due to the items I carry, if I can get it to use the RM mod it would be great


I disagree with moving this great help we are getting to the google checkout post, as i have been reading through that for weeks, and most of the questions concerning RM and google, or the setting up of the flat rate just go unanswered.

Not blaming anyone for that just the fact most of those setting it up and discussing it on that thread are Americans and they will possibly struggle to reproduce the UK problems we are having

the other bit of copy and pasting the files across has got the google checkout showing correctly but I am getting an oopps this does not work message, and when I look at it, on google, it is saying I am getting an XML error due to 0.0 weight or something.

Any help from anyone would be great and hope all is well, after reading the earlier posts

Thanks for any help

[meknownowt]

Problem is that they get updated each year to so 1st of april 2009 they change again.

Also, what I heard recently. they are supposed to be hiking the price up quite a bit this year so, anyone using RM should make sure they are ready to change these in a hurry, as it may end up costing you.

[philip_clarke]

When I try the http://<YOUR_WEBSITE>/googlecheckout/responsehandler.php with my own site address, a box pops up and requests sign in details, have tried all the ones I can think of but none will get me any further.

Send me an email or a PM with the site details and I'll have a look.

I disagree with moving this great help we are getting to the google checkout post, as i have been reading through that for weeks

I disagree with your disagreement but still PM me.

Philip.

[philip_clarke]

Also, what I heard recently. they are supposed to be hiking the price up quite a bit this year so, anyone using RM should make sure they are ready to change these in a hurry, as it may end up costing you.

As I've said, I have a little time to do programming for the new prices, and I will get it done, what I do not have is the time to go and look for new price information on the royalmail website. But If someone sends me direct links I will sort out a new moudle before the price change and then no-one will have a problem.

[meknownowt]

As I've said, I have a little time to do programming for the new prices, and I will get it done, what I do not have is the time to go and look for new price information on the royalmail website. But If someone sends me direct links I will sort out a new moudle before the price change and then no-one will have a problem.

No worries, just a little bit of work for everyone, and the heads up that it may just be larger than a few pence this time.

I read it on another forum and they were mentioning something like a little over twenty five percent rise on UK postage.

Most of us will be making the changes, so if we copy and paste what we have up here for everyone else, it may make life a little easier.

Also if someone has a friend that works in a post office, they will get the price changes quite a while before hand, I seen the last rise about three weeks before they came out, as the guy that used to run the local post office was busy reading them.

And thanks for the PM

This is what is showing up in google in the error notification

Error parsing XML; message from parser is: Invalid value for attribute value in checkout-shopping-cart/shopping-cart/items/item/item-weight: Must be at least 0.0
Warnings: XML failed to validate against the schema at line: 14, column: 14, with error: cvc-minInclusive-valid: Value '-2.9' is not facet-valid with respect to minInclusive '0.0E1' for type '#AnonType_valueItemWeight'.
XML failed to validate against the schema at line: 14, column: 14, with error: cvc-attribute.3: The value '-2.9' of attribute 'value' on element 'item-weight' is not valid with respect to its type, 'null'.

The problem may just be that I have not set up any flat rate postage, as I am still working out where that goes.

But thanks to your other post I am a lot further forward than I have been for ages with this.

Thanks again