Big Royal Mail 3.0

brittainmark:

Good spot. There is a typo in the update instructions 3.3.2 is the correct sql file to run. I am assuming you are doing an upgrade not an install as this in not necessary for an install. I'll get the documentation updated.
Thanks
MarkReally appreciate your swift reply !
Yes - it was / is an upgrade - although I've messed with trying to get a good postage / shipping solution for a long time - with many variations - and I did actually use the 3.3.2 on a test install yesterday - seemed to work ok - but I still decided to roll back to my previous install & ask the question this morning - thanks again - I can now go ahead...
One thing I did notice when messing yesterday was that I could not get a shipping method to work for a test posting to Australia - so whether that's my shipping options setup incorrect - or something else - I'll have to spend some (more) time trying to understand the whole process...

Vinyl Signs:

Really appreciate your swift reply !
Yes - it was / is an upgrade - although I've messed with trying to get a good postage / shipping solution for a long time - with many variations - and I did actually use the 3.3.2 on a test install yesterday - seemed to work ok - but I still decided to roll back to my previous install & ask the question this morning - thanks again - I can now go ahead...
One thing I did notice when messing yesterday was that I could not get a shipping method to work for a test posting to Australia - so whether that's my shipping options setup incorrect - or something else - I'll have to spend some (more) time trying to understand the whole process...

The latest is 3.3.7. Australia needs to be in the list of two letter codes for zone 2 countries, the code is "AU" they are comma seperated without the quotes. If it is there it could be because of the weight of the item.

Mark

brittainmark:

The latest is 3.3.7. Australia needs to be in the list of two letter codes for zone 2 countries, the code is "AU" they are comma seperated without the quotes. If it is there it could be because of the weight of the item.
MarkThanks again ! - seems to be working now !

Vinyl Signs:

Thanks again ! - seems to be working now !Hi - me again - After some time messing with various parts of admin and running a lot of test purchases - I have a question...
The popup shipping estimator does not show the "included Royal Mail insurance" level for the various options - my preference would be for all shipments to have "fully insured" cover - I wonder what I'm missing ? - is this possible ? - to force "fully insured" shipping rates ? - I have tried adding a bit to the packing to help with the cost - but that's a bit hit & miss - and doesn't address the issue quite how I'd like....any thoughts ? (very much appreciate your time - and hope this hasn't been answered elsewhere before - I did look - but failed to find anything relevant)

Vinyl Signs:

Really appreciate your swift reply !
Yes - it was / is an upgrade - although I've messed with trying to get a good postage / shipping solution for a long time - with many variations - and I did actually use the 3.3.2 on a test install yesterday - seemed to work ok - but I still decided to roll back to my previous install & ask the question this morning - thanks again - I can now go ahead...
One thing I did notice when messing yesterday was that I could not get a shipping method to work for a test posting to Australia - so whether that's my shipping options setup incorrect - or something else - I'll have to spend some (more) time trying to understand the whole process...

Sorry for delay have been busy and away from computer. The default maximum values ensure that the item is coverd by royalmails insurance. So first/second class not signed is insured up to £20, Signed for is insuered for £50. Special delivery is insured for £250 with additional insurance if you want which is built into the cost. If you look a specila delivery you will see insurance as one of the settings. The only one that I beleive is not covered is international economy. Please note the comnpensation you recieve will be the value you paid for the goods and the postage you paid. NOT the value you charged your customer. Therfore you may wish to up the default values to reflect the cost of goods to you rather than your customers prices.
Hope that makes sence.
Mark

It seems that Royal Mail are hiking prices up for US postage from 1st July. To which end they have introduced a Zone 3. Any plans to get a mod in for this please?

Gwiazda:

It seems that Royal Mail are hiking prices up for US postage from 1st July. To which end they have introduced a Zone 3. Any plans to get a mod in for this please?
It seems to be only Small Parcels and Printed Papers that are affected, but the hike is quite substantial.

Gwiazda:

It seems that Royal Mail are hiking prices up for US postage from 1st July. To which end they have introduced a Zone 3. Any plans to get a mod in for this please?
I'll look into it. Probably take me a week or so. Should be doable.

brittainmark:

I'll look into it. Probably take me a week or so. Should be doable.

Thank you.

Gwiazda:

Thank you.

Have Submitted updated version. Should be there in a couple of days. The removal of USA from zone 1 was just a quick and dirty so you may have a blank entry in the country codes for existing modules. you can just edit the codes list to remove the additional comma. I have done a test on my system and seems to be OK. Please test to make sure OK for you. I have not seen any news as to parcelforce upping their prices so if you use parcelforce it may be worth checking on line about the 1st July to see if their rates have changed. (As a precaution you could temporally disable the modules when you have despatched your last order before 1 July and re-enable on 1st when you know the new prices if any). If they split USA in to a new zone it will need a program mod again.

brittainmark:

Have Submitted updated version. Should be there in a couple of days. The removal of USA from zone 1 was just a quick and dirty so you may have a blank entry in the country codes for existing modules. you can just edit the codes list to remove the additional comma. I have done a test on my system and seems to be OK. Please test to make sure OK for you. I have not seen any news as to parcelforce upping their prices so if you use parcelforce it may be worth checking on line about the 1st July to see if their rates have changed. (As a precaution you could temporally disable the modules when you have despatched your last order before 1 July and re-enable on 1st when you know the new prices if any). If they split USA in to a new zone it will need a program mod again.

Thank you again. I'll get that installed and tested next week.I don't have that many US orders atm, but am expecting more in a few weeks so the timing should work out OK.

I don't use Parcelforce as most of my stuff can go Large letter or Small parcel. They already have about 12 zones, of which US and Canada are in one. I had a look but can't see any price changes there.

brittainmark:

Have Submitted updated version. Should be there in a couple of days. The removal of USA from zone 1 was just a quick and dirty so you may have a blank entry in the country codes for existing modules. you can just edit the codes list to remove the additional comma. I have done a test on my system and seems to be OK. Please test to make sure OK for you. I have not seen any news as to parcelforce upping their prices so if you use parcelforce it may be worth checking on line about the 1st July to see if their rates have changed. (As a precaution you could temporally disable the modules when you have despatched your last order before 1 July and re-enable on 1st when you know the new prices if any). If they split USA in to a new zone it will need a program mod again.

Any idea how I would only enable this for a single category and disable all other shipping options please?

Nick1973:

Any idea how I would only enable this for a single category and disable all other shipping options please?
I did this on my site for books. I only have one book at the moment but the principle worked OK. I created a new attribute of book and cloned all the royal mail modules i wanted to use changing their name from RM... to BK... (and making a small change to the module) then applied the attribute to the book so that the only valid shipping for books was the BK methods. I had an additional complication in that we cannot send books with any other products so I also created an observer that check when you added items to the cart or that you were not mixing books with crystals.
The only other shipping method I use is store collection so as everything else was royal mail the attribute shipping method for products worked fine.
If you want to understand more you would have to look at the royal mail modules in the quote function you will see and array set up called $postage_check this is used in the combination with the attribute checking to see if the method can be used to dispatch the item. If you look in the include quote.php (in ...>shipping>BigRoyalMail>) you will see about line 75 onwards the check being performed.
So the bottom line is if you are happy to do a bit of coding you can mod big royal mail and the other shipping methods that you use to make the changes you need.
If is probably easier to do it for products that it s for a category as if like me you have a product in multiple categories then it does not matter were it comes from you probably need the different postage method.

Not sure if that helps.

brittainmark:

Have Submitted updated version. Should be there in a couple of days. The removal of USA from zone 1 was just a quick and dirty so you may have a blank entry in the country codes for existing modules. you can just edit the codes list to remove the additional comma. I have done a test on my system and seems to be OK. Please test to make sure OK for you. I have not seen any news as to parcelforce upping their prices so if you use parcelforce it may be worth checking on line about the 1st July to see if their rates have changed. (As a precaution you could temporally disable the modules when you have despatched your last order before 1 July and re-enable on 1st when you know the new prices if any). If they split USA in to a new zone it will need a program mod again.

Hi, Just went to install the mod and RemoveUSA.sql appears to be missing from the package

Gwiazda:

Hi, Just went to install the mod and RemoveUSA.sql appears to be missing from the package
Sorry here is the code. I'll add it and release. Obviously too rushed.

UPDATE configuration SET configuration_value = REPLACE(configuration_value, "US", "")
WHERE `configuration_key` LIKE "MODULE_SHIPPING_RMAM%ZONES_COUNTRIES%";

You can manually remove US from all your Zone countries.This would be neater as the script will leave , , in the lists. This does not effect the running of the code.

OK, no problem. I wasn't sure if that was all it did so didn't want to risk it, but I'll do that manually. Thanks

Another issue - International Signed Large Letter is not showing Zone 3. Sods law that this is the one I use most :D
I've uninstalled and reinstalled it 3 times just to check

Gwiazda:

Another issue - International Signed Large Letter is not showing Zone 3. Sods law that this is the one I use most :D
I've uninstalled and reinstalled it 3 times just to check

That's because Royal mail are no longer doing signed to USA you have to use "tracked and signed" or "tracked". Make sure that you remove US from the signed modules if you have done it manually. :D

brittainmark:

That's because Royal mail are no longer doing signed to USA you have to use "tracked and signed" or "tracked". Make sure that you remove US from the signed modules if you have done it manually. :D

Ah, in which case you might want to remove the following from the SQL update as it causes an error :D
UPDATE configuration SET configuration_value = @ROWHandlingZ3 WHERE configuration_key = 'MODULE_SHIPPING_RMAMTSLETTER_ZONES_HANDLING_4 ;

Gwiazda:

Ah, in which case you might want to remove the following from the SQL update as it causes an error :D
UPDATE configuration SET configuration_value = @ROWHandlingZ3 WHERE configuration_key = 'MODULE_SHIPPING_RMAMTSLETTER_ZONES_HANDLING_4 ;

The issue is it is missing a quote should be
UPDATE configuration SET configuration_value = @ROWHandlingZ3 WHERE configuration_key = 'MODULE_SHIPPING_RMAMTSLETTER_ZONES_HANDLING_4**'** ;

This one is for Tracked and Signed.

I must have slipped when I transferred the file. You wont' believe that I tested it fine on my system before I put it out there.