Estimate Shipping on Product Page

Hello all, I've found that a lot of customers from my site don't know how to estimate the shipping rates. I've received a lot of emails asking for shipping cost , multiple item shipping stuff like that. I am thinking about putting the estimate shipping on the product page, in this way:

Estimated Shipping Cost

Shipping Cost
* after adding this item to Shopping Cart*

Current Shipping Cost $0.00

Shipping Weight
* after adding this item to Shopping Cart* 12.01kg(s)

Current Shipping Weight 2.01kg(s)

Total Items in Cart 1

So you only pay an extra $quote_after - $0.00 for multiple-item shippingDo you think it is possible?
Would the professional ZEN geeks give we newbies some advice?

Thanks a lot :smartass:

I add some nice text that reads in red:
Add to cart for Shipping Estimate

when nothing is in the cart ...

And once something is in the cart it changes to the Shipping Estimator button ... :smartass:

Hi everyone

Does anyone know of an estimate shipping add-on that can go on each product page? Esentially we would like something that asks for the postcode and it then takes the product weight and returns a shipping estimate.

If there isn't one are there any takes on writing a mod for this?

Thanks

I haven't seen any mods for that yet.

Thanks - I thought that was the case.

You could customize the product _info page to have access to the Shipping Estimator ...

While this would give the total shipping, it is handy to have that follow you along as you are shopping ...

We have basically done that already. However what we would prefer is an estimate shipping not based on the cart contents but rather on the individual product. This way as a lot of our sales are single product sales a client can just go "estimate shipping" on the product page and the esrimator picks up the product weight - asks for the shipping details and gives a response. On leaving the estimator it maturally dumps the data other than the shipping details. Saves putting it in the cart and then doing an estimate shipping.

I am also after something like. This way the customer knows exactly what the shipping will cost - before they add to cart, then go to the check out screen.

... What if they have something in their cart already? An estimate for one item by itself will be different than several items in the same box ...

That is the point - We want to avoid adding it to the cart and do it as a one of thing. The result screen just has text on it that goes something like

This is the estimated shipping for this one product. To do multiple items add all the products to your cart and THEN click estimate shipping.

Many people hate adding things to the cart and estimate shopping - to many steps

I think that this would be a great thing for my site too. Any new ideas?

You could customize the product _info page to have access to the Shipping Estimator ...

While this would give the total shipping, it is handy to have that follow you along as you are shopping ...

Could you please let us know how one can customize the product_info page to access the estimator?

I add some nice text that reads in red:
Add to cart for Shipping Estimate

when nothing is in the cart ...

And once something is in the cart it changes to the Shipping Estimator button ..

That would work great for me ... but how could I do that?

Many thanks!

At this time, about the most that can happen is add the button/link when there is something in the cart as the shipping estimator only quotes what is in the cart and not what you are thinking about adding to the cart ...

I have not seen any add ons, off the top of my head, that would send a quote for a specific product ...

You would need to customize your templates and overrides for the product _info page ...
/includes/templates/templates_default/templates/tpl_product_info_display.php

and copy to:
/includes/templates/your_template_dir/templates/tpl_product_info_display.php

Yes I could not find any add-on that quote individually either. Until one becomes available, I followed your advice (posted on http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=60441), ie add a text that reads: Add to cart for Shipping Estimate. I also included a note in the estimator that reads: Note that shipping costs are estimated based on the aggregate contents of the shopping cart rather than individual products.

add the button/link when there is something in the cart

I suppose I'd need to insert something in the product_info page layout, but I do not know php. Could you possibly give me some good pointers as to how I can do this?

Thanks much!