[Old] Royal Mail Modules

You'll find in the define files lines like this:

define('MODULE_SHIPPING_RMAM_EXPIRES', 1238976000);

which is the expiry time in unix time, you can change the number to a date in the future. (but it will be overwritten any time you upgrade and the SQL patch gets around this).

Philip.

Hi Philip,

can you please let me know how to enable international shipping as i have done a test sale but for any country outside the UK i get a msg stating "Not Available At This Time
Sorry, we cannot calculate your shipping at this time.
Please contact us so that we can arrange a quote tailored especially for you." how do i rectify this problem?

Thx

Which airmail modules have you installed and have you made sure that the weight and the price of the shopping cart is underneath the values set int admin.

Thank you.

I ended up manually changing my prices.

In case you wanna do it too - really simple price list, provided by the Royal Mail

ftp://ftp.royalmail.com/Downloads/public/ctf/rm/2009-2010-Pricesdocumentforpublication.pdf

And I work for the UK minimum wage.

This module is amazing! Well done for making it. It is exactly what I need!
I am however experiencing a problem and I can't seem to find the answer in this thread;

I have enabled the 'Royal Mail Standard Parcels' module ver. 2.3.4 I did a test buy for an item that was £2 and weight of 0.5kg, I made sure that in admin modules>shipping the minimum order weight for this shipping module was set to 1.501 and that hide invalid shipping was set to 'true' because I don't want this postage option to be displayed to customers if their order is under 1.501kg.

And this test order is only 0.5, however I still get displayed 'Royal Mail Standard Parcels
Royal Mail Standard Parcels is only available for orders over 1.50 kgs'

I have done the same thing with the 'Royal Mail Standard Parcels (to £100 insurance)' module and this works fine, it doesn't display to customers as an option or as the standard parcel one above does.

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks,

Sushigal :wacko:

Yes go to admin > configuration > shipping and packaging and check the Tare values, that 3 Kg is not being added by zen cart to the shipping weight (it's a default value so happens a lot). Also I'd like to see this (if possible), as there appears to be a difference between 2 modules that should be virtually identical in response.

Thank you
Philip.

Hi, thanks for getting back to me, here's the link to my site if that's what you need to see my problem?

I went to config>shipping/packaging and the only thing that was set to 3 was 'Display no of boxes and Weight status' I changed that to 0 and its not fixed the problem.

Both tare weight fields,

'Package Tare Small to Medium - added percentage:weight'
and

'Package Tare Small to Medium - added percentage:weight'

were both set to 0:0 anyway. If that's what you were referring to?

Many thanks,

Sushigal

Sorry, I think this is actually what you needed, a link to the checkout of the test purchase where this problem with two identical modules is occurring; http://www.thegreatgiftshop.co.uk/zencart/index.php?main_page=checkout_shipping

Sorry for the delay other comittments got in the way. I can't see what you mean as I assume you've currenlty disabled it, but I think I understand having re-read the above a couple of times. What you are saying is that when "hide invalid shipping" is set, and the shopping cart is under the minimum weight for the standard parcels modules, then std parcels is still showing an error message which you would like removed ?

This should be straigtforwards enough, I'll look at the minimum weight code tomorrow morning, but I suspect that I just never turned on Hide invalid shipping for that section.

Thank you
Philip.

As an interim release I have corrected the flaws in Hide Invalid Shipping and the min weight/ standard parcels modules. This makes sure that shipping "errors" (too light, under cost etc...) are not shown to the customer if True is selected for the appropriate module in admin

There is a zip file here:

http://exploitingit.co.uk/versions/rmstdparcels.zip

overwrite the files in includes/modules/shipping/ you do not need to remove and install, you only require to overwrite the files and check that Hide Invalid Shipping is set to True.

Sorry about all the bold italics etc... otherwise people will just go and install the modules even if they aren't using standard parcles.

Philip.

Hey, no problem. Well its not an error message, it just shows up as: 'Royal Mail Standard Parcels
Royal Mail Standard Parcels is only available for orders over 1.50 kgs'

If you can find out why its still showing up then that would be great.

Thanks

ah, i didnt see your reply above. Thanks so much. I'm away for the weekend now but will try doing all the above on monday.

Many thanks

Okay, it's classifies as a "Shipping Error Message" by zen cart, so it's just different words, but the new zip work and will be incorporated into the next release.

Philip.

Thnak you Philip. I followed your instructions and that has fixed the problem.

Thank you very much,

Sushigal

Hello i am having a small problem with the royal mail module,is there a sql for all the countys in the UK i need to add and also i dont seem to find ukzr.php that i have been reading about on this forum thans again for your help

Hi, ukzr is a courier module and so has been split to the parcelforce modules.

Inside the zip file is a SQL patch that you install in Admin> tools > Install SQL patches the patch is called

optional/ukzr_optional_county_install-0.0.1.sql

The ParcelForce module is in mysignature below.

Thank you
Philip.

Thank you philip i have checked my big_royal_mail_2-3-3\big_royalmail_v2.3.3\optional folder all i have is 3 php files no sql thanks for your help

Yes I know, that's what I said. ukzr and the SQL is now in ParcelForce which is here:

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

not in the big royal mail package any more.

thank you