Zones Table Rate Shipping Module

When you say the Max Weight is on no ... what do you mean?

Your Table Rates go to 250 lbs or whatever units you are using ... that means the Max Weight needs to be up to 250 or more or it cannot work ...

Yes, it works now. Thank you. For some reason the weight limit in Shop>Config seemed to have been set for a non numerate amt 'No limit'. This doesn't work - thanks for pointing it out to me. It needs to be a figure. I changed it and it works fine.

Is there any way tos et this up to work for, say, 8 zones?

1 Save all of your current settings in the Shipping Module to something like NotePad ...

2 REMOVE the shipping module - you will lose all of your settings so be sure you saved them SEE: #1

3 Make all of your Zones that you need

4 INSTALL the shipping module and reconfigure it for each Zone ...

Hi, I've set up 4 shipping zones to work with for now. 2 to the UK and 2 to the channel islands. Each destination has 1 priorty service and 1 standard service

Enable Table Method
True

Table Method
weight

Tax Class
Taxable Goods

Tax Basis
Shipping

Sort Order
1

Shipping Zone 1
UK Next Day

Zone 1 Shipping Table
.5:2.95,.75:3.95,1:4.95,1.5:5.95,2:7.95,4:16.00

Zone 1 Handling Fee
0

Shipping Zone 2
UK 2 Day Courier

Zone 2 Shipping Table
2:4.95,4:5.95,6:6.95,8:7.95,30:8.95

Zone 2 Handling Fee
0

Shipping Zone 3
Channel Islands 1/2 Day Priority

Zone 3 Shipping Table
.1:2.50,.5:4.50,1:6.75,2:8.95,10:18.50

Zone 3 Handling Fee
0

Shipping Zone 4
Channel Islands 3/5 Day Standard

Zone 4 Shipping Table
.5:2.50,.75:3.50,1:4.50,2:5.75,3:6.50,4:7.50,6:8.50,30:9.50

Zone 4 Handling Fee
0

When I process an order based on a UK shipping address only the UK 2 Day Courier (zone 2) is shown. The UK Next Day option does not appear. Also the shipping price shows up as £7.55 which is incorrect as it should be £4.95 for a 0.2kg weighted item.

When I change the delivery address to Gurnesy (channel Islands) again only the Channel Islands 3/5 Day Standard (zone 4) appears but this tiem the correct postage of £2.50 is being charged

Does any one have any idea's as to what is happening. The tare weight is set as zero but I'm wondering if I'm missing something here?

Thanks
Tony

TonyB6:

Hi, I've set up 4 shipping zones to work with for now. 2 to the UK and 2 to the channel islands. Each destination has 1 priorty service and 1 standard service

Enable Table Method
True

Table Method
weight

Tax Class
Taxable Goods

Tax Basis
Shipping

Sort Order
1

Shipping Zone 1
UK Next Day

Zone 1 Shipping Table
.5:2.95,.75:3.95,1:4.95,1.5:5.95,2:7.95,4:16.00

Zone 1 Handling Fee
0

Shipping Zone 2
UK 2 Day Courier

Zone 2 Shipping Table
2:4.95,4:5.95,6:6.95,8:7.95,30:8.95

Zone 2 Handling Fee
0

Shipping Zone 3
Channel Islands 1/2 Day Priority

Zone 3 Shipping Table
.1:2.50,.5:4.50,1:6.75,2:8.95,10:18.50

Zone 3 Handling Fee
0

Shipping Zone 4
Channel Islands 3/5 Day Standard

Zone 4 Shipping Table
.5:2.50,.75:3.50,1:4.50,2:5.75,3:6.50,4:7.50,6:8.50,30:9.50

Zone 4 Handling Fee
0

When I process an order based on a UK shipping address only the UK 2 Day Courier (zone 2) is shown. The UK Next Day option does not appear. Also the shipping price shows up as £7.55 which is incorrect as it should be £4.95 for a 0.2kg weighted item.

When I change the delivery address to Gurnesy (channel Islands) again only the Channel Islands 3/5 Day Standard (zone 4) appears but this time the correct postage of £2.50 is being charged

Does any one have any idea's as to what is happening. The tare weight is set as zero but I'm wondering if I'm missing something here?

Thanks
Tony

OK, I've worked out what the pricing error was but I still cant work out why its only electing to show one shipping zone when two are available. Looking at the above config and considering my problems I can now say

If I remove zone 2 (UK 2 Day Courier) and select it to none then zone 1 then (UK Next Day) appears to the customer.

If I re-add the UK 2 Day Courier zone but move this to zone 1 while maintaining zone 2 as UK Next Day then only zone 2 apprears to teh customer and zone one is no longer displayed as per the original error.

It seems to me that the system is not seeing the first options but defaulting to the second UK or Channel Island option

Zone 1 - UK Next Day (Does not see)
Zone 2 - UK 2 Day Courier (Defaults to)
Zone 3 - Channel Islands 1/2 Day Priority (Does not see)
Zone 4 - Channel Islands 3/5 Day Standard (Defaults to)

even if you have

Zone 1 - UK 2 Day Courier (Does not see)
Zone 2 - Channel Islands 1/2 Day Priority (Does not see)
Zone 3 - Channel Islands 3/5 Day Standard (Defaults to)
Zone 4 - UK Next Day (Defaults to)

Ideas please?

I'm having a similar problem. I want to have two zones available for each state, one that is for a commercial address and one for a residential address. Only one zone, residential, shows after a user selects his state. Any advice?

Thanks,

Peter

Is there a way to set it up so that only orders on International shipping of orders over 20lbs tell the customer to contact the shop owner?

:( is there anyone can help me....
how many zones that allowed for Zones Table shipping modules..cause i add more than 1500 zones, and the error log cache message like this.

[27-Apr-2010 19:48:49] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 25165824 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 14969608 bytes) in C:\AppServ\www\store\sufun\modules.php(286) : eval()'d code on line 1

I had the module running under Zen Cart 1.3.8a. Everything worked perfect. Today I've installed 1.3.9d from scratch. Defined 8 zones (status green). Then installed the module.

But the status of the module is orange. And only 3 zones are available for configuration. I think I did it correct but for making sure, I've deleted the module. Then deleted the two php files, uploaded again and reinstalled. But status still orange and still only 3 zones. I checked the whole forum thread but this was the only solution I could find.

Please help

Cheers
Ralph

plaz,

To have Zonetable provide more than one shipping option in a geographic area you need to "clone" it, which means to make a copy of both of the zonetable.php files, both renaming each, and making text edits in each.

I've attached ones that I made, make sure you put each file in the correct directory (as indicated in the filename -- you must rename both files to zonetableCourier.php for this example).

plaz:

I'm having a similar problem. I want to have two zones available for each state, one that is for a commercial address and one for a residential address. Only one zone, residential, shows after a user selects his state. Any advice?

Thanks,

Peter

Hello All,

The string needed for zonetable shipping costs takes some time to prepare, and will likely need changes from the post office or other shipper tables (for example to include a fuel surcharge, insurance, or taxes), and then it needs to be updated when the shipping rates change. I have attached a spreadsheet to help with this.

Put your shipping weights in column A and the costs in column B (and update/add whatever changes are needed to these costs).

You can then just copy the string from cell A30 of the spreadsheet into the zonetable zone configuration.

Hi there,

I am using version 1.3.9, for some reason, even though I followed the instructions for installation perfect, this module simply does not show up under my shipping modules. This is the last thing outstanding before we can go live, does anyone know what may have happened?

Barend

When a shipping module does not show up, check that you have installed the components correctly ...

The code for the shipping module goes to:
/includes/modules/shipping

The language file for the shipping module goes to:
/includes/languages/english/modules/shipping

Note: the filenames need fixing

zonetableCourier (goes in Modules).php
is really
/includes/modules/shipping/zonetableCourier.php

zonetableCourier (goes in Languages).php
is really
/includes/languages/english/modules/shipping/zonetableCourier.php

If I had three criteria for shipping — Zone (state/country), Table (price range), and Speed (ground, next day, etc.) — would I be able to clone this module for that purpose?

In other words, have ZoneTableGround only available for Zone 1 customers and have its own Table Rate schedule, ZoneTable2DayAir for Zone 2 customers only, etc. Is that doable?

Hi! I've noticed through reading this thread that this is an effective shipping module that works for a lot of folks, but it's not working for me.

Forgive me in advance, I am dealing with someone else's zen cart build and am relatively unfamiliar with the inner workings of zen cart in general.

I'm running v1.3.8a with zone table v1.1. Other add-ons I've added are Fast and Easy Checkout v1.8 and CSS/JS Loader. To my knowledge those are the only supplemental modules/plugins.

Within the admin shipping module edit area, when I have Zone Table Rate selected (green) with a sort order of zero, everything else disabled and removed, 2 strange things are happening. I'm getting this text at the top of the admin page highlighted in yellow:

Warning Shipping Configuration errors!
Warning: 0 weight is configured for Free Shipping and Free Shipping Module is not enabled

This doesn't make sense to me as I have literally removed all .php files in the /includes/modules/shipping directory to avoid any confusion. Yes, a free shipping module used to reside there.

The other strange thing is that the zone table shipping option does not show up on the checkout page at all. All it says under the shipping field is: "Not Available At This Time
Sorry, we are not shipping to your region at this time.
Please contact us for alternate arrangements."

I know it's a lot, but if someone could point me in the right direction, or even the right thread, it would be greatly appreciated.
:D

Edit the setting in Configuration ... Shipping/Packaging ... and turn off the 0 weight means Free shipping ...

Thanks, Ajeh.

Now the admin error is gone, but I'm still getting the message in the shopping cart as mentioned before. And if I try to push through to checkout, it asks me in a red error message to "Please Select Shipping method", when there was no list to pick from.

Strange.

Thanks, Ajeh.