Big Royal Mail 3.0

The issue is with all the modules that start Parcelforce... these are not part of big royal mail. I think these are old Philip Clark modules. It is not big royal mail that needs to be removed but all of the other parcelforce modules.

You need to find the download that installed these modules and it should have instructions on hoe to get rid of them.

If not then I think your idea of upgrading the the latest zencart is a good one.

Mark

Hi Mark,

This is a great module, I have been using it for a few months and find it great that it handles the different product sizes for UK items, never had this level of control before and is really useful.

Now that Royal Mail are using the same sizes guidelines for international items as they do for mail travelling within the UK is there any chance of getting a large letter options added for international items of mail, I believe that it only affects standard airmail items as opting for tracked/signed for options the price is the same as tracked small parcels.

Also if an item has a minimum size associated with it of large letter then both large letter and small parcel rates are shown, I think this might be confusing to some customers, it would nice if there was an option to have it so that if the item would go as a large letter that only that rate is shown and not both as the customer is likely to select the cheaper option anyway.

~R

I'll Look at it. To see what's involved. The new rates should not be too much of an issue. Not sure about limiting to the lowest available. Give me a couple of weeks to look at it.

Hi Mark,

Thanks that would be great!

~R

Hi, I'm using Basic Royall Mail add-on but it appears to have lost support. Can I simply install Big RM to run along side but disable the my other add-on once set-up?

Rizla:

Hi, I'm using Basic Royall Mail add-on but it appears to have lost support. Can I simply install Big RM to run along side but disable the my other add-on once set-up?

This should not be an issue as long as none of the module names overlap with big royal mail. There will be a lot of modules in your shipping methods. I am currently updating Big royal mail to include Airmail letter and Large letter. So I don't know if you want to wait a few weeks while I finish my testing.

Thanks for the reply Mark, Do we have any form of delivering to the US and abroad at present?

Yes there sre currently Royal mail Airmail small parcel and surface mail, and parcel force world wide global. I am currently adding Airmail letter and large letter. Also the Parcel force rates need to be updated as they have recently changed.

Hello britainmark and to anyone else who maybe able to help.

I seem to have an issue with this plugin and not sure what else to check.
Basically I have a clean build of zc 1.5.4, I've installed your plugin as per your documentation, made changes to the site weight to change from lbs to Kg and configured the built in paypal express api settings.

I've enabled and configured two royal mail postage options, one for local and other international. I've added the weight to the products.
The problem I have is when I add item to shopping cart, it displays the correct estimated shipping at the bottom, I then click the paypal express quick checkout button which takes me to the paypal page with the item but the shipping cost isn't added to the item total, I even proceed to login to paypal and it still doesn't charge for shipping.

Here are my settings for Big Royal Mail.

Royal Mail special delivery® next day ver. 3.2.3

Royal Mail Rates Expiry Date
The Date the current Royal Mail postage rates expire.
Format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
e.g. 2012-04-02 00:00:01 or 2012-04-02
It is not necessary to put in the time.
Set this to remind you to update the shipping costs.

Enable this shipping option
If you need to adjust your shipping rates, you can use this option to disable it in your shop, instead of re-installing

True
False

Hide Invalid Shipping
Hide this shipping service if it is not valid (either due to exceeding the maximum weight or the min & max order values).

True
False

Tax Class
Use the following tax class on the shipping fee.
--none-- Taxable Goods VAT VAT Exempt

Sort Order
Sort order of display.

Minimum Order Value
Minimum order value in £ GBP for this shipping option.
Set to 0 for no minimum order value.

Maximum Order Value
Maximum order value in £ GBP for this shipping option.
Set to -1 if there is no Maximum

Insurance rates
example: 200:1.2 means values less than or equal to £200 would cost £1.20. to insure. 100+:4.5 means that each additional £100 costs £4.50 to insure.
500:0,1000:1,2500:3

Handling Fee
The amount it costs you to package the items and get to the post office to get the items into specialdelivery®.

Shipping rates to GB & Northern Ireland
Example: 0.1:1.14 means weights less than or equal to 0.1 Kg would cost £1.14.
0.1:6.4, 0.5:7.15, 1:8.45, 2:11, 10:26.6, 20:41.2

If you have any ideas, would greatly appreciate it?

Many thanks to you and all.

Here's my paypal express settings too for reference.

Enable this Payment Module
True

Sort order of display.
0

Payment Zone
--none--

Express Checkout Shortcut Button
On

Set Order Status
Processing [2]

Set Unpaid Order Status
Pending [1]

Set Refund Order Status
Pending [1]

Express Checkout: Require Confirmed Address
No

Express Checkout: Select Cheapest Shipping Automatically
Yes

Express Checkout: Skip Payment Page
No

Express Checkout: Automatic Account Creation
Yes

Payment Action
Final Sale

Transaction Currency
Only GBP

Store Brand Name at PayPal
IBW

Allow eCheck?
Any

PayPal Page Style
Primary

API Signature -- Username
us_api1.****.com

API Signature -- Password

API Signature -- Signature Code

PayPal Mode
PayPal

Live or Sandbox
live

Debug Mode
Alerts Only

I cannot see your settings for next day special delivery. Here are mine.

Royal Mail special delivery® next day Rates. Weights in Kgs. Rates valid until 2016-03-27

Big Royal Mail Expiry Date
2016-03-27

Enable this shipping option
True

Hide Invalid Shipping
True

Tax Class
--none--

Sort Order
170

Minimum Order Value
10.00

Maximum Order Value
2500.00

Insurance rates
500:0,1000:1,2500:3

Handling Fee
1.00

Shipping rates to GB & Northern Ireland
0.1:6.45, 0.5:7.25, 1:8.55, 2:11, 10:26.6, 20:41.2

For Paypal I use express chackout and these are the settings. I have obscured the ones that are sensitive.

Enable this Payment Module
True

Sort order of display.
20

Payment Zone
--none--

Express Checkout Shortcut Button
On

Set Order Status
Processing [2]

Set Unpaid Order Status
Pending [1]

Set Refund Order Status
Pending [1]

Express Checkout: Require Confirmed Address
No

Express Checkout: Select Cheapest Shipping Automatically
No

Express Checkout: Skip Payment Page
No

Express Checkout: Automatic Account Creation
No

Payment Action
Final Sale

Transaction Currency
Only GBP

Store (Brand) Name at PayPal


Allow eCheck?
Any

PayPal Page Style
Primary

API Signature -- Username
*****************

API Signature -- Password
****************

API Signature -- Signature Code
****************

PayPal Mode
PayPal

Live or Sandbox
live

Debug Mode
Off

Hope this helps

[QUOTE=brittainmark;1283879]I cannot see your settings for next day special delivery. Here are mine.

Hello Brittainmark, thanks very much for the settings comparison and the brilliant plugin, complete lifesaver!, here's my config below although I think I've found out what the issue is and might be useful for you guys as reference to some template issues, of course if that is even the case.

I'm using one of picaflor-azul responsive templates from here which is brilliant but I think there's an issue with the shopping cart icon not redirecting to SSL as my site is fully SSL enabled. This seems to cause an issue with your plugin not sending the postage estimate onto paypal express.

I've detailed the issue here just incase anyone else comes across this issue. It's post #94 at bottom of page, anyway thank you very much for your input on this, cheers!

https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.php?217203-Responsive-Sheffield-Blue-v2-0/page10

Royal Mail special delivery® next day ver. 3.2.3

Royal Mail Rates Expiry Date
The Date the current Royal Mail postage rates expire.
Format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
e.g. 2012-04-02 00:00:01 or 2012-04-02
It is not necessary to put in the time.
Set this to remind you to update the shipping costs.

Enable this shipping option
If you need to adjust your shipping rates, you can use this option to disable it in your shop, instead of re-installing

True
False

Hide Invalid Shipping
Hide this shipping service if it is not valid (either due to exceeding the maximum weight or the min & max order values).

True
False

Tax Class
Use the following tax class on the shipping fee.
--none-- Taxable Goods VAT VAT Exempt

Sort Order
Sort order of display.

Minimum Order Value
Minimum order value in £ GBP for this shipping option.
Set to 0 for no minimum order value.

Maximum Order Value
Maximum order value in £ GBP for this shipping option.
Set to -1 if there is no Maximum

Insurance rates
example: 200:1.2 means values less than or equal to £200 would cost £1.20. to insure. 100+:4.5 means that each additional £100 costs £4.50 to insure.
500:0,1000:1,2500:3

Handling Fee
The amount it costs you to package the items and get to the post office to get the items into specialdelivery®.

Shipping rates to GB & Northern Ireland
Example: 0.1:1.14 means weights less than or equal to 0.1 Kg would cost £1.14.
0.1:6.4, 0.5:7.15, 1:8.45, 2:11, 10:26.6, 20:41.2

Still cannot see your configuration. you need to select it from the web browser before you click edit. It appears that you have not set expires date, minimum or maximum values. However I do not think the issue is here.
Check out your configuration file. Found in YOURSITE/includes/configure.php

  define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://your.server.here');

  // Use secure webserver for checkout procedure?
  define('ENABLE_SSL', 'false');

I think you need to change the ENABLE_SSL to 'true'

  define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://your.server.here');

  // Use secure webserver for checkout procedure?
  define('ENABLE_SSL', 'true');

This is not definite juts a hunch.

brittainmark:

Still cannot see your configuration. you need to select it from the web browser before you click edit. It appears that you have not set expires date, minimum or maximum values. However I do not think the issue is here.
Check out your configuration file. Found in YOURSITE/includes/configure.php

define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://your.server.here');

// Use secure webserver for checkout procedure?
define('ENABLE_SSL', 'false');

> 
> I think you need to change  the ENABLE_SSL to 'true'
> ```
  define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://your.server.here');

  // Use secure webserver for checkout procedure?
  define('ENABLE_SSL', 'true');

This is not definite juts a hunch.

Those settings you mention are correct, I built ZC clean from 1.5.4. Just double checked against this official doc for SSL enabling your site and all appears correct. http://www.zen-cart.com/content.php?56-how-do-i-enable-ssl-in-zen-cart

Just pulling my hair out :) It's a bit of a weird one, it seems when you add item to cart and do a quick checkout with paypal express without login as a guest, it show's the correct estimate shipping added to the total, then hit checkout which passes over to the paypal page which has the total but no postage and packaging.

If you're logged in and checkout, it works fine. I think I'll try build another test site and go through the whole process but without the Sheffield Blue Responsive template installed, just using default classic template so at least I can rule out a possible custom template issue.

Just wonder if you've used that type of configuration on 1.5.4 with paypal express, checkout as guest without login to see if it passes on P&P?

Any way, I'll keep you and others informed, hopefully something really silly my end.

Cheers and thanks for your help.

Hello Mark, thanks for the new update for BRM 3.3.0. I've just tried to cleanly reinstall BRM on ZC 1.5.4, copied over the *.images, *.includes to root of store overwriting the existing files. Logged in admin and enabled and configured two shipping methods. Ran RemoveAll.sql to completely cleanup any old data.

Followed your instruction docs and ran Install3.2.sql to import records, which went fine then tried to import your new 2015Update.sql which wont work, tried copy/paste and import methods into SQL Query Editor. It just throws me out of the site to a blank screen. Basically http 500 internal error, all other SQL scripts work fine except the new 2015Update.sql.

Looks happy under shipping, say's v3.3.0

Royal Mail International Tracked "Small Parcel" ver. 3.3.0 rmamtparcel Info
Royal Mail International Tracked & Signed "Large Letter" ver. 3.3.0 rmamtslargeletter Info
Royal Mail International Tracked & Signed "Letter" ver. 3.3.0 rmamtsletter Info
Royal Mail International Tracked & Signed "Small Parcel" ver. 3.3.0 rmamtsparcel 370 Info
Royal Mail Parcel Force "express 10" ver. 3.3.0 rmpfexpress10 Info
Royal Mail Parcel Force "express 24" ver. 3.3.0 rmpfexpress24 Info
Royal Mail Parcel Force "express 48" ver. 3.3.0 rmpfexpress48 Info
Royal Mail Parcel Force "express 9" ver. 3.3.0 rmpfexpress9 Info
Royal Mail Parcel Force "express AM" ver. 3.3.0 rmpfexpressam Info
Royal Mail Parcel Force "Global Economy" ver. 3.3.0 rmpfgeconomy Info
Royal Mail Parcel Force "Global Express" ver. 3.3.0 rmpfgexpress Info
Royal Mail Parcel Force "Global Priority" ver. 3.3.0 rmpfgpriority Info
Royal Mail Parcel Force "Global Value" ver. 3.3.0 rmpfgvalue Info
Royal Mail Parcel Force "Ireland Express" ver. 3.3.0 rmpfiexpress Info
Royal Mail International Economy "Small Parcel" ver. 3.3.0 rmsmparcel Info
Royal Mail special delivery® next day ver. 3.3.0 rmspecialdelivery 170 Info
Royal Mail specialdelivery® 9:00am ver. 3.3.0 rmspecialdelivery9am Info
Royal Mail special delivery® next day Saturday ver. 3.3.0 rmspecialdeliverysat Info
Royal Mail specialdelivery Saturday® 9:00am ver. 3.3.0 rmspecialdeliverysat9am Info
Store Pickup storepickup Info
Table Rate table Info
Zone Rates zones

Followed your instruction docs and ran Install3.2.sql to import records, which went fine then tried to import your new 2015Update.sql which wont work, tried copy/paste and import methods into SQL Query Editor. It just throws me out of the site to a blank screen. Basically http 500 internal error, all other SQL scripts work fine except the new 2015Update.sql.
Sorry Finger trouble put the wrong version of the SQL file in the zip.
The error is on line 317 it reads

 Europe Airmail Letter */

it should read

/*  Europe Airmail Letter */

I'll correct the zip file and repost.

brittainmark:

Sorry Finger trouble put the wrong version of the SQL file in the zip.
The error is on line 317 it reads

Europe Airmail Letter */

> it should read
> ```
/*  Europe Airmail Letter */

I'll correct the zip file and repost.

Thanks Mark, that's brilliant! Imported and working fine now. Also thanks for the PM too, have tested the process flow from paypal express checkout back to ZC store and it's applying the postage perfectly afterwards.

I've reposted the helpful link you've found below for any future reference.

Just a helpful reminder note for anyone else as quoted by DrByte on Paypal express checkout - shipping/paypal payment process flow in case you're blindsided like me and concerned it wasn't working :)

In Zen Cart 1.3.x, a customer clicking the EC shortcut button on the shopping cart page will go to PayPal's site to select a funding choice AND THEN return to YOUR store where all the shipping and tax information is properly calculated using all the available address information.

If they use the normal checkout flow and choose PayPal on the checkout-payment page, then all the required address/tax information is already provided and thus when the customer is directed to PayPal for funding choices all that information is presented on the PayPal screen at that time.

https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.php?181008-PAYPAL-Express-sometimes-NOT-Adding-Shipping-cost-during-PayPal-login/page2

Thanks again Mark, cheers!

Hi Mark,

Great module sir! I have installed it successfully.
However my shipping is not being calculated correctly. Can you help?

My items in my store are listed as grams in weight not lbs.
Can your module Big Royal Mail work with this?

If so please can you tell me how, what I need to change?
Also can you explain to me how to set the -

Shipping rates to GB & Northern Ireland
Example: 0.1:1.14 means weights less than or equal to 0.1 Kg would cost £1.14.

My items weigh eg. 127grams 1200grams and so on.

Thanks
Tony

P.S. In laymans terms please.

phatolive:

My items in my store are listed as grams in weight not lbs.
Can your module Big Royal Mail work with this?

If so please can you tell me how, what I need to change?
Also can you explain to me how to set the -

Shipping rates to GB & Northern Ireland
Example: 0.1:1.14 means weights less than or equal to 0.1 Kg would cost £1.14.

My items weigh eg. 127grams 1200grams and so on.
Hi Phill, Yes the module works in KG not Lbs so you will need to change the Shipping rates to GB & Northern Ireland to grams from kilograms this means multiplying the weight by 1000. The weight is the figure before the colon ":". Each set of weight and price is separated by a comma ",". There for for Royal Mail 1st Class "Medium Parcel" the new rates line will be

1000:5.65, 2000:8.9, 5000:15.85, 10000:21.9, 20000:33.4
```This translates as for 0 to 1000g charge £5.65
for 1001g to 2000g charge £8.90
for 2001g to 5000g charge £15.85
for 5001g to 10000g charge £21.90
for 10001g to 20000g charge £33.40

Hope that helps