Free Delivery but No Discount % to Groups

Hi all,
I've seen a couple of similar posts, but nothing solved, or quite right. I've spent all night on it, but my lack of expertise is preventing me from achieving it.

I have set up a group called free delivery (ID 5). The discount rate is 0%.

I have Free Shipping Options set up, to give free delivery when spend is >= £250.

Regardless of spend, I want to give customers in the applicable group free delivery.

I really don't want to use coupons.

I'm confident it's a fairly simple tweak to ../includes/modules/shipping/freeoptions.php but would really appreciate some help.

Thanks in advance

Martin

What I would do is create another shipping method that would cover this group, then have that method only appear when the customer was a member of that group. Would require some custom programming but not too much

Let's say your special Group is customers_group_pricing is 2 ...

You can customize the shipping module:
/includes/modules/shipping/freeshippingoptions.php

with the code in RED:

[B]// bof: give free shipping if Customer is in customers_group_pricing 2
global $db;
$chk_group_sql = "SELECT customers_group_pricing from " . TABLE_CUSTOMERS . " WHERE customers_id = " . (int)$_SESSION['customer_id'];
$chk_group = $db->Execute($chk_group_sql);
// final check for display of Free Options
[/B]      if ([B]$chk_group->fields['customers_group_pricing'] == 2 || ([/B]$this->ck_freeoptions_total or $this->ck_freeoptions_weight or $this->ck_freeoptions_items[B])[/B]) {
        $this->enabled = true;
      } else {
        $this->enabled = false;
      }
[B]// eof: give free shipping if Customer is in customers_group_pricing 2
[/B]
      if ($this->enabled) {

Now anyone with Orders of >= $250.00 get Free Shipping and anyone in Group 2 always gets a Free Shipping Option ...

I'm very grateful.

Thank you :cool:

Thanks for the update that this was able to work for you ...

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