Flat Rate for Multiple Zones

Here is my second shipping module contribution.

Like the Multiple Zones Table Rate module, this module allows you to set flat rate for multiple shipping zones.

this sounds like what I'm looking for, but wanted to ask if this should be uploaded in the custom file or to be overwriten on the original file?
Thanks
Linda

ljsoroka:

this sounds like what I'm looking for, but wanted to ask if this should be uploaded in the custom file or to be overwriten on the original file?
Thanks
Linda

It does not overwrite any file. Just upload and install in the admin control panel.

surf7.net:

It does not overwrite any file. Just upload and install in the admin control panel.

Thanks for your help but could you possibly explain how this works? If I wanted to ship a product to other locations out of my province, each province would have a different rate of shipping. I'd like to assign a flat rate according to what province they are recieving the package. Each package is basically the same size, shape and weight.
How could I use this flate rate shipping on each area?
I'm new to zen so still attempting to understand the workings of it.

I can't use the Canada Post connection because I'm on a sharred hosting and they won't open the port I need to connect to the Canada Post website.

Thanks for your help in this, I do appreciate it.

Linda Soroka

You may be able to correct me on this but I think after looking some things over I might be better using the zone rates? that way I may be able to adjust the shipping charge according to the zones I set up?

Thanks for anyone's help sometimes it just takes a newbe some time to wrap the brain around it all lol

Blessings
Linda

ljsoroka:

Thanks for your help but could you possibly explain how this works? If I wanted to ship a product to other locations out of my province, each province would have a different rate of shipping. I'd like to assign a flat rate according to what province they are recieving the package. Each package is basically the same size, shape and weight.
How could I use this flate rate shipping on each area?
I'm new to zen so still attempting to understand the workings of it.

I can't use the Canada Post connection because I'm on a sharred hosting and they won't open the port I need to connect to the Canada Post website.

Thanks for your help in this, I do appreciate it.

Linda Soroka

Before you install this shipping module, you must define your Zones Definitions first.

Go to Locations / Taxes > Zone Definitions. Then click insert button to add new zone. Then select the zone and click details button. Finally insert the country and it's respective zone (province/state) there.

ljsoroka:

You may be able to correct me on this but I think after looking some things over I might be better using the zone rates? that way I may be able to adjust the shipping charge according to the zones I set up?

Thanks for anyone's help sometimes it just takes a newbe some time to wrap the brain around it all lol

Blessings
Linda

Zone rates does not allow you to specify different shipping rate for 2 or more zones in the same country.

surf7.net:

Before you install this shipping module, you must define your Zones Definitions first.

Go to Locations / Taxes > Zone Definitions. Then click insert button to add new zone. Then select the zone and click details button. Finally insert the country and it's respective zone (province/state) there.

Again, thanks for your help and quick response :)

OK from what I understand and I guess I'm looking for confirmation lol
I want to ship a flat rate to the continental usa and to canada.

What I've done is set the zones for the usa into four parts as the map seperates them, being, western states, midwest states, southern states, and northeast states and then in the zone definitions I placed each of the states one at a time that are in that sector.

for Canada I created three shipping zones, Western Canada, Central Canada, and Eastern Canada, then in the zone def. placed the provences that are in those sectors one by one.

this is all in the same area, Zone Definitions / Taxes, payment and shipping.
I have for the taxes the pst zone the gst zone and the hst zone.

so if I understand correctly, this will allow the cart to charge taxes and shipping to the canadian provences according to zones and then charge shipping only to the usa states?

I hope I'm doing this right
Thanks
Linda

ljsoroka:

OK from what I understand and I guess I'm looking for confirmation lol
I want to ship a flat rate to the continental usa and to canada.

What I've done is set the zones for the usa into four parts as the map seperates them, being, western states, midwest states, southern states, and northeast states and then in the zone definitions I placed each of the states one at a time that are in that sector.

for Canada I created three shipping zones, Western Canada, Central Canada, and Eastern Canada, then in the zone def. placed the provences that are in those sectors one by one.

this is all in the same area, Zone Definitions / Taxes, payment and shipping.
I have for the taxes the pst zone the gst zone and the hst zone.

so if I understand correctly, this will allow the cart to charge taxes and shipping to the canadian provences according to zones and then charge shipping only to the usa states?

I hope I'm doing this right
Thanks
Linda

If I understand correctly, yes. No harm give it a test and see whether it works or not.

I installed this but it is not coming up in my list of shipping modules now. Someone please help:(

Thanks!!
Tracey

When you install an add-on Shipping, Payment or Order Total Module ... there are usually 2 peices to it:

/includes/modules/shipping/something.php
/includes/languages/english/modules/shipping/something.php

/includes/modules/payment/something.php
/includes/languages/english/modules/payment/something.php

/includes/modules/order_total/something.php
/includes/languages/english/modules/order_total/something.php

When it does not show up in the Admin ... then you most likely loaded it into the wrong directories on the server ...

Hi, i've installed this very handy module, duplicated it and all was going well untill i got to zone 9. Then i get the following errors.

Warning: constant() [function.constant]: Couldn't find constant MODULE_SHIPPING_ZONEFLAT_ZONE_9 in /usr/www/users/thissiy/store2/includes/modules/shipping/zoneflat.php on line 49

Warning: constant() [function.constant]: Couldn't find constant MODULE_SHIPPING_ZONEFLAT2_ZONE_9 in /usr/www/users/thissiy/store2/includes/modules/shipping/zoneflat2.php on line 49

If i delete zone 9 , the problem goes away.

Any ideas on what could be causing this? Any suggestions as to how i can fix this would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Never mind,i wrote down my settings then unistalled the module and reinstalled and all seems to be working now.

Thank you for supplying this module! It's exactly what I was looking for.

I've got all the zones defined and everything is looking good, but when I go to checkout only one of the zones is showing up under "Shipping Method".

Any clues?

Nevermind. I didn't know it automatically narrowed down the shipping options based on what the users address was.... Thanks!

Nifty little thing eh? :cool:

OK, so if I just want two zones for shipping. One flat rate for US, one flat rate for International do I really need to 'insert' these one by one as described by SURF7 or is there a way to add all U.S in one shot? and All international in one shot?

I can spend hours adding them one by one.

For the all of the US, meaning All States and DC ... All US Territories and Islands ... All Armed forces ... you can create a Zone with the US and All Zones on the definition ...

For the Rest of the World, you need to build that from everyone else ...

If you do a search on:
rest of the world

there are several posts that have been listed with the SQL for the Rest of the World that might be able to help you ...

NOTE: be sure to backup your database before adding it ...

It's been a while since this plugin or thread was updated but does anyone know how I could modify the code, similar to the way zones.php was modified to allow for a "rest of the world" zone?