[Old] Royal Mail Modules

I have just upgraded to version 2.3.3 but for some reason Eurozone48, internationalstandard and internationaldatapost are not being offered as an option during checkout. The zones definition all appear to be correct so i'm stumped why it might not show. I have set all 3 to be active and ensured all weight/pricing is correct. It may be an issue with my zones but i dont understand why this previously worked. I was going to try and remove the complete module and retry installing it but was not sure what needed deleting from the database so if anyone has ny ideas i would be grateful.

PS:Does anybody know of a complete zones sql download that works with this mod?

After I've had my dinner I shall have a look, knowing which version you upgraded from and which version of ZC you are using would help.

As for the zones SQL they should be in the optional folder, or installed when the module is installed and removed. It's one of the things on a back burner but I could move it forward as long as that idiot Ginetta keeps his/ her mouth shut.

Hi Phil, Any help would be much appreciated. I've reinstalled a few times and now the international standard is showing but it is showing Spain as Zone 12 but it actually zone 8. Maybe a clue to whats going on? The other 2 arent showing still. If you want to take a look at the site let me know and i'll PM you access.

Okay, I don't have a probem getting the international standard to show, BUT, everything is being placed into zone 12 which I'll have to fix.

It is probable that the same kind of bug is responsible for international datapost, and eurozone 48 not showing up. What happened was the world fell over in one of the ZC upgrades where it didn't like _ (that's an underline) in the shipping module name, that was fixed but it looks like there has been some knock on effects. I would guess that it will be fixed tonight, the SQL for the correct rates will then be available 24 hours after that if anyone is interested,

I must obviously go now and fix it.

Philip.

Hi Philip, At least i'm not going totally mad wondering if it was something set up wrong. I'll wait to see if you can sort it before doing anything else. Should the eurozone and datapost standard show up then? There isnt anythin required for it to show other than the customer being located in europe? (If zencart is seeing spain as being located in the rest of the world would that explain why the eurozone48 module is not being offered?)

Shhh, I'm working.

Yes they should show up and they did a few days ago.

as a quick fix

http://exploitingit.co.uk/versions/internationalstandard.txt
http://exploitingit.co.uk/versions/internationaldatapost.txt
http://exploitingit.co.uk/versions/eurozone48.txt

These should all be downloaded and renamed .php instead of .txt
Put them in includes/modules/shipping/ replacing the existing files and the system should work without a remove and install.

Note that Eurozone48 obviously disappears when a USA address is used. And International Standard disappears when a French or Spanish address is used. Datapost should be consistent for all country selections.

Philip.

Philip, You're a genius! I've just uploaded the new files and the 3 options are now appearing when expected. I'm going to do a bit more testing but there will certainly be some beer money donated 2m! Just a quick question about the RM prices update you mentioned previously. Is this chargeable? What exactly is the update?

Cheers again for the quick fix and if any of the 10,000 downloaders are still reading then I think this guy seriously deserves a few donations for the sheer amount of FREE work and more importantly quick support he has put in into this module alone!! Without guys like this we would all still be using a pretty bog standard cr*p version of zen!

Progress Report.

I have decided that since the Royal Mail sold off ParcelForce, I should also split the modules into Royal Mail and Parcelforce.

Having spent most of last night and this morning going through the parcelforce price list, I've found that Eurozone 48 doesn't really exist and that there are two new modules required "Global Priority" and "Economy". No I'll modify that statement, there are services for account holders where Euro 48 exists and non-account holders who then have a selection of three options (account holders only have two options). Also International Standard used to only be for countries outside of europe as the "non-account" holder could use Eurozone48. So basically I have to create new modules, and mark up the modules for account and non-account holders and big royal mail is now very big with 32 options, so I think it's time to split it since people using the post office don't need the additional complexity or overhead of having the shipping option installed (even if disabled then the the modules still load and say "I'm not installed").

So tonight or tomorrow the modules will be split into ParcelForce and RoyalMail, both are currently functional but the ParcelForce will remove all previous data for the first version due to technical reasons e.g. that up until recently International Standard was not available to Europe so there are NULL values in the database that require stripping out.

I would expect 6 or 7 modules in parcelforce and big royal mail to be reduced by 4 modules.

Thank you
Philip.

version 2.3.4
06/04/2009
Minor bug fix to Airmail Small Packets, when uninstalled and error was displayed in admin.
Major change in that parcelforce and all courier modules have now been removed and are to be found under ParcelForce shipping modules.

ParcelForce enquires should now be directed at the thread

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?p=711253

Hi,
Where is the 2.3.4 release and the shipping rates patch please? I just installed 2.3.3 and it sent me here but I can't see anything. I started updating the rates manually, but the international shipping is fairly epic so would appreciate an sql patch if there is one.
Thanks.

2.3.4 is currently awaiting review after having been submitted to the zencart team. but I have placed it here for you:

http://exploitingit.co.uk/versions/big_royalmail_v2.3.4.zip

along with the parcelforce modules are at

http://exploitingit.co.uk/versions/ParcelForce_v2.3.4.zip

when the zc team put them up here, then I will remove them.

Philip

Any idea when the rates update will be posted please? I've been using this mod for a while and it's great, thanks Philip for all your hard work.

Retro

The SQL update is already available for airmail, and uk services.

TPHoare:

Hi,

Has anyone ever solve the problem of silly counties when using zones. In particular I am thinking of London, Cardiff, Edinburgh etc which if we're lucky comes up as London, London etc.

We've always got away without using zones at all in the past but we now send to the Channel Islands where no VAT causes us problems.

Any ideas for this issue as I have the same problem with London etc, and Channel Isles.

? Question, How do people list the Channel Isles ?
As seperate countries or as 'The Channel Isles' and use counties as Guernsey, Jersey etc

This question should be moved to the parcelforce thread which has been placed here:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=124467&highlight=parcelforce

as the "courier" modules have been removed from the big royalmail package.

But as the thread is not yet active (as the zc team have not put up the new packages). What happens when one of the courier / parcel force modules is installed is this:

All the Channel Islands are slotted into a parent Category "Channel Islands", this is then used for the postage calculation. If you install one of the modules like international standard, you'll see in your zone definition "instandard:world zone 5" (it might be 6 or 7) which has the chanel islands as a parent and the islands as children. I do not exactly understand the nature of your particular problem, mentioning london etc, but the modules install the islands themselves.

SCRAP THAT.

the file optional/ukzr_optional_county_install-0.0.1.sql puts all the counties and the islands in the correct place and that is sitting inside the big_royalmail zip at the moment. You upload this in "install SQL patches" and then install the modules that assigns the channel islands to a "world zone".

I have downloaded 2.3.4 from the link provided 6 April but cannot see the SQL update for new postal rates - am I being really dense???

If you are then you are not the only one...

I'll be PM'ing you, shortly.

Good news the split modules have now been approved so for the Royal mail the download for 2.3.4 is here

http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=294

for ParcelForce it is here:

http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&cPath=40_51&products_id=1308

will all ParcelForce and courier enquiries now move to the new thread at:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=124467&highlight=parcelforce

ParcelForce will be gettting a lot of work done over the next few weeks, with more services added and the existing ones corrected, and I'd like to keep this forum clear for the modifications that will be happening to the Royal Mail code only. We will be having minimum weights added to the other royal mail modules as well as changing the installation slightly so that it doesn't use as many queries to the database.

Thank you
Philip.