Hi
First many thanks to all involved in this fantastic module especially Philip and Pixxi.
I am trying to hide the royal mail shipping options when the free shipping options kick in, for example I give free shipping when an order has more than 3 items, so there is not point in displaying the RM1stlargeletter which I normally use, try I a may I have had no success in this yet and have searched through this long post be can't find how (thats not to say it isn't here and I've mised it:dontgetit). Any suggestions or pointers would be really appreciated, failing that I guess I am just going to have to roll up my sleves and start digging into the code to try work out a method but I was hoping someone could save me many hours of debugging:lamo:
Steven

Kands, The two Zen Cart free shipping modules are quite distinct in their operation (as you've discovered). The FreeShipping inhibits all other shipping methods, the Free Options does not.
Linda addressed this recently here:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=69669&page=2

for US sites, which with a bit of editing will hopefully do the trick for you.

Rgds,

Hi Chuckl
Thanks for your reply I tried Kim's solution and modified it to suit however it removes all the shipping options but I still want to be able to offer things like store pickup and special delivery next day
Steven

Great mod and got it working great to handle the weights, but my customers are offered a choice of choose the right weight for Large Letter or Packet.

Most customers will of course choose the cheapest option, so I wondered if there is a way to direct customers to choose the most appropriate option for their chosen product/s? Most of my products are books which could be Large Letter or packet depending on the book?

AJ73:

Most customers will of course choose the cheapest option, so I wondered if there is a way to direct customers to choose the most appropriate option for their chosen product/s? Most of my products are books which could be Large Letter or packet depending on the book?

Hi AJ73,

I'm no expert on this mod but I have found that a large percentage of books will not qualify for large letter even though they are within the weight allowed, because they are over 25mm in thickness.

I have a many products that could be sent via large letter and fit the size but I also have a lot that could but don't fit the size, so my solution was to not offer large letter.

I only offer Small packet, Recorded Signed for, Special delivery and Standard parcels for my UK customers, this seems to work for me.

TFB

Thanks TFB,

I may have to just offer packet, although I do know that most of our books are small enough when packaged for large letter, it's when they buy more than one they are of course packet only.

I think I will have to offer packet, we are a charity anyway so most people wont mind paying that little extra, the perfectionist in me would just like to offer them large letter if that is all they need to pay.

When I used this I weighed each item and depending on the weight I changed the setting of the mod thus making sure the larger items would be sent via packet or large letter as needed.

I have a problem about weight. It looks like lbs has been set up already. When I use royal mail, I do not understand why it charge so high as it is 0.001lbs. :frusty: Could someone help me please? Also is it possible to change using kg not lbs?

Thank you.

http://u-fashion.net/shop4

helloUK:

I have a problem about weight. It looks like lbs has been set up already. When I use royal mail, I do not understand why it charge so high as it is 0.001lbs. :frusty: Could someone help me please? Also is it possible to change using kg not lbs?

Thank you.

http://u-fashion.net/shop4

OK I found the answer to change configuration>shipping and packing 0:0

Thank you

Yes, that catches a lot of people out :smile:

You can change 'lbs' to 'kgs' in includes/languages/your custom language folder/english.php:

 define('TEXT_PRODUCT_WEIGHT_UNIT','kgs');

The default Zen Cart install sets up an automatic added packaging weight of 3 'units'. In your case actually 3kg, since the Royal Mail modules calculate in kg. So the shipping weight of your 0.001'lb' item is calculated at 3.001kg.
Change it in Admin-Configuration-Shipping/Packaging section Package Tare Small to Medium. Default is 0:3, which means 0 percent, 3 units. 10:0 is a better setting for testing.

Zencart does not do any weight conversions, it doesn't care what you call the units, so to change the units you simply need to edit the files, and change lbs. to kg. Easiest way to find out where is to read the tutorial

https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=204

Pixxi:

This is a limitation of the standard cache_data column size in all versions (AFAIK) of zen up to and including zen v1.3.7.

See post 299 (in this thread, above) for an explanation.

See also the bug report here:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=56436http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=56436

The fix is to run this SQL statement on your database via phpMyadmin:

change cache tracking size

TRUNCATE TABLE db_cache;
ALTER TABLE db_cache CHANGE cache_data cache_data mediumblob;

>  
> Or to change to file-based caching in your configure.php files.
 
Cheers!
 
Wanted to add my thanks for this post. To fix my post... :D

Hi,

Just tried using the shipping estimator additional mod that you give. It seemed to break my shipping estimator.

I have a test user with three addresses, two of which are outside the UK. Because i don't have any international delivery option available there are no shipping options available for these two address (not sure if this makes a deference but i thought I'd give the full scenario).

I open the shipping estimator and it shows the shipping for the default address, with an option bar at the top so i can select the additional addresses in my test account.

I select one of the other address and the estimator updates to show no available shipping options. But now I cannot see the option bar so i cannot change back to my old address. I close and open the estimator and still the same.

Without the mod installed i can change from one address to another no problem.

This is with zen cart 1.3.7.

Just thought i'd let you know..

Otherwise, great mod and thanks it is most helpful indeed :)

I NEED HELP Please!
I have installed the Big Royal and the UKZR modules hoping to get to exclude free shipping over £50.00 when the weight is over 30kg; no joy.
I now got a big problem and I dont Know Where it could come from,
The customer billing and shipping address DOES NOT come up in the Invoice, Packing List, in super orders and normal orders, not even in the shop customer account view orders!
I would appreciate very much if you can help!
Thanks

AFAIK it's unlikely that installing the RM mod would cause that - no one else has reported it so far, although you may, of course, be the first ;-)

Have you made any other changes or installed any other mods at the same time?

Do the addresses appear if you:

1. Disable the RM mod in admin?

2. Un-install the RM mod?

Pixxi:

AFAIK it's unlikely that installing the RM mod would cause that - no one else has reported it so far, although you may, of course, be the first ;-)

Have you made any other changes or installed any other mods at the same time?

Do the addresses appear if you:

1. Disable the RM mod in admin?

2. Un-install the RM mod?

I am honored to be the first, :(
All the shipping modules are disabled a part from flat and Zone rate
In the last few days I have installed Big Royal, UKCounties_sql, super orders 2,
I have being modifying live help (top right box) some source code.
I have modified text in the invoice (not any source code)
It seams to me that I have not touched any core files thet query the sql .
I have checked the db orders and name and addresses are all there.
The only place that the address appears ok is in the checkout process.

Can you think of some other think I could have done wrong?
Thanks

And what happens if you:

2. Uninstall the RM mod?

Pixxi:

And what happens if you:

2. Uninstall the RM mod?

How do you do that? You mean delete them from the admin/shipping.
I have un-installed it from sql db but still the same.
I have just done a new order and that invoice address comes up.
So is lost the references to the previous orders?
How can that be?

You remove all the RM mod files from your shop - the opposite to how you installed it ;-)

Can I send you an email? I would like to add a feature to the product price, can I talk to you about it?