Fastway Courier, PostCode based shipping method

I am having a serious mind block here. It all sems simple when I think about it, then I goto do it and it all turns to custard.

If someone would be so kind as to tell me I'm a silly bugger and I should just do!!!!!! THen I can finally get this out of the way.

Heres what I want to do:
We only ship within NZ, North and south islands.
Local shipping with our North Island region is cost per weight
Ballance of north island is another cost per weight
South island is another cost per weight

It seems simple, and I didn't want to mess about with zip codes and the like because I am to lazy to set them all up

We also have some items we are not allowed to ship and must be uplifted.

Any thoughts would be helpful

Regards

Fred

FredZ:

It seems simple, and I didn't want to mess about with zip codes and the like because I am to lazy to set them all up

Unless you're prepared to set up the zones, zone Definitions which relate to the shipping module, how do you think you can apply three shipping rates based upon a customers address?

You'd want your customer to select shipping based upon whatever region you set up within that country (zones).

No shortcut to do this properly.

hehehe, well I had to try. but seriously, today was raining so I could'nt work outside, so I sat down in front of my rusty old PC and rewrote the SQL statements for the "Fastway" module. Blow me if it didn't work a treat. The only thing it doesn't do is add the handling fee, but I guess I will sort that out by the end of tonight.

If anyone out there has all the postcodes for rural delivery for NZ I would like a copy to complete the module. It currently only covers addresses that can be delivered by your postie.

If anyone wants a copy of the fastway module and/or my SQL file along with my documentation, just ask.

Now that I have the site operational, I guess I can now start to customise it instead of it looking like I took it out of the box and used it.

Regards

Fred

FredZ:

hehehe, well I had to try. but seriously, today was raining so I could'nt work outside, so I sat down in front of my rusty old PC and rewrote the SQL statements for the "Fastway" module. Blow me if it didn't work a treat. The only thing it doesn't do is add the handling fee, but I guess I will sort that out by the end of tonight.

If anyone out there has all the postcodes for rural delivery for NZ I would like a copy to complete the module. It currently only covers addresses that can be delivered by your postie.

If anyone wants a copy of the fastway module and/or my SQL file along with my documentation, just ask.

Now that I have the site operational, I guess I can now start to customise it instead of it looking like I took it out of the box and used it.

Regards

Fred

I used 18 zones for NZ which I set up in zones:

New Zealand All- Others XX
New Zealand Auckland City AU
New Zealand Auckland RegionAR
New Zealand Bay of Plenty BP
New Zealand Canturbury CA
New Zealand Gisborne GI
New Zealand Hawkes Bay HB
New Zealand Malborough MA
New Zealand Nelson NE
New Zealand Northland NO
New Zealand Otago OT
New Zealand Southland SO
New Zealand Taranaki TA
New Zealand Tasman TS
New Zealand Waikato WK
New Zealand Wanganui Manawatu WM
New Zealand Wellington WE
New Zealand West Coast WC

Note: that fastaway mod is it available in the dl section? Wouldn't mind trying it myself. Currently using MultiGeoZone, which also works great.

oh yeah, if its the postal codes you need then go here:

http://www.nzpost.co.nz/Cultures/en-NZ/Personal/AddressingAndPostcodes/Postcodes/PostcodeDirectory.htm

I find it easier to break it down by region.

I didn't see the module in the downloads when I just checked, from memory I found it in a link in one of the forums. I didn't (and still don't) know how to setup the zones, so it was easier for me to setup the postcodes in mysql, around 2400 lines.

If you can't find the fastway module just PM me and I will email it to you along with the work I have done on it. From memory it is a module modified from another ecommerce product, and it has all of the Ausi stuff in the database. I am using ZC 1.3.7 and it works.

I looked at the NZPost site. My issue with that is it is all in PDF, and I am not going to wade through those for days on end in an attempt to find what I am looking for. I rang NZ Post in an attempt to get it all in other electronic formats, they wanted $1000. The call ended then. I will continue to search for a copy/paste solution.

Regards

Fred

re post codes..

As its a pdf document (not an image) you can just copy and paste it all into notepad or even retain the table format, paste directly into spreadsheet, etc.

Hi,

Currently setting up my first Zen Cart v1.38a.
I'm in Australia, sell within Australia only. I do not use Australia post as all my items are over the Aus Posts size limits of 20~kg. So i use a courier. Most couriers in Australia charge by weight (actual or cubic weight, whatevers higher) X the rate, the rate varies depending on where the customer lives. Unlike the US the difference in cost to send to your neighbour state vs state on the other side of the country is Huge. Furthermore sending it to rural areas in said state vary in cost greatly also.

I'm after a way to the following:

Customer enters in their Post Code, a drop down list of suburbs that are within that postcode appears, customer chooses suburb. Shipping is calculated by weight * rate (which varies depending on postcode) + flat rate consignment fee.

I've searched and searched, and i have found something similiar called the 'Fastway courier module' however it seems to be for an older version and not exactly what i'm after.

I have a database of all australian postcodes & matching suburbs, so putting all the data in the database shouldn't be too difficult, - actual coding is way above my head though.

We currently are using a third party company to hose our shopping cart, this third party is an australian company and thus have created their own shipping module which does exactly this. You can see it in action at my old site here - https://www.mojodirect.com.au - simply add something to your cart and the following screen you will be able to enter a postcode (eg 3155) a drop down box appears where you select the suburb, and then your delivery cost is automatically calculated.

I'm surprised their aren't more Australians out there after a module like this?
If anyone knows a way of doing this - please guide me in the right direction. Otherwise we might have to pay a pro to create it.

Thanks!

Here an Oscommerce module that is very similiar - http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/2266

And here is the 'Fastway' module i was talking about earlier
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=38389

This may be able to do what i'm after - however the download links aren't working. If anyone has a link to the Fastway module please let me know!
Thanks

newmediastudio.com.au/zencart/fastsway_v1.0.1.zip
this is the link we used.

jetx:

I used 18 zones for NZ which I set up in zones:

New Zealand All- Others XX
New Zealand Auckland City AU
New Zealand Auckland RegionAR
New Zealand Bay of Plenty BP
New Zealand Canturbury CA
New Zealand Gisborne GI
New Zealand Hawkes Bay HB
New Zealand Malborough MA
New Zealand Nelson NE
New Zealand Northland NO
New Zealand Otago OT
New Zealand Southland SO
New Zealand Taranaki TA
New Zealand Tasman TS
New Zealand Waikato WK
New Zealand Wanganui Manawatu WM
New Zealand Wellington WE
New Zealand West Coast WC

Note: that fastaway mod is it available in the dl section? Wouldn't mind trying it myself. Currently using MultiGeoZone, which also works great.
Hi, I want to give multigeozone a try, but don't know where to download it? could you please tell me where I can find this mod. or could you send it to me via email? my address is [email protected] much appreciated!!

jetx:

I used 18 zones for NZ which I set up in zones:

New Zealand All- Others XX
New Zealand Auckland City AU
New Zealand Auckland RegionAR
New Zealand Bay of Plenty BP
New Zealand Canturbury CA
New Zealand Gisborne GI
New Zealand Hawkes Bay HB
New Zealand Malborough MA
New Zealand Nelson NE
New Zealand Northland NO
New Zealand Otago OT
New Zealand Southland SO
New Zealand Taranaki TA
New Zealand Tasman TS
New Zealand Waikato WK
New Zealand Wanganui Manawatu WM
New Zealand Wellington WE
New Zealand West Coast WC

Note: that fastaway mod is it available in the dl section? Wouldn't mind trying it myself. Currently using MultiGeoZone, which also works great.

Not to sure why you would setup 18 zones within NZ simply because Fastway NZ doesn't have that many zones from any single shipping point.

Get a copy of their national shipping schedule from their head office in Napier.

I am currently doing a full rewrite of the postcodes I have because it has all the old postcodes. This won't be available for a while as I work full time and there is a substantial amount of code to go through. Once I have it done I will make it available.

Regards

Fred

I have a txt doc of all the NZ postcodes, converted from a pdf from NZ post. The problem now is I don't know how to incorporate this into the Fastway module. the txt can be downloaded here: http://kuholdings.com/estore/NZ_postcodes.txt

Any ideas?

To much information contained within that document. The shipping module doesn't (and can't) use the street names. So based on that you only need the suburb complete with postcode. Once you have all the suburbs and postcodes together then you need the Fastway trans shipping schedule to add the zones from your particular shipping point.

Regards

Fred

Fred, I am trying to work out how to get this module working for New Zealand now.

What code did you change to make this work and what format do you the sql files in?

I have a copy of the Fastway postal codes and rural areas so will need to reformat them so they work.

Any help appreciated.

John :smile:

I guess this thread has gone dead?

Anyone out there who has a working shipping modules for New Zealand who is willing to share their experience. I am using fastway to deliver our the country but also looking at International.

Cheers
John

Hi John

Sorry for the lengthy delay in responding to this post, but I almost never visit this site any more.

To get the current Fastway Shipping module to work for NZ you have to make some choices simply because of the limitations of the module itself.

Currently you are limited to so many zones. In NZ Fatsways zoning exceeds that number.

So what I did was to get my customer to limit the tickets purchased to Local, North Island & South Island giving me just 3 zones to deal with.

I then changed all the SQL statements by hand to reflect all the post codes and broke them up into their respective zones.

Then set the pricing for the 3 zones within the shipping module inself.

Simple really.

My current SQL statements only have the old post codes, and I am working in changing them over, but current workload is preventing me from doing that.

Note: The SQL statement only has the post code listed once with the respective suburb, no street names. This is because the current module in its current state doesn't reference street names anyway, so there is no point in cluttering your SQL database with them.

Regards

Fred

Thanks for the tips Fred. Am snowed under with work at the moment but will get to this in a couple of weeks. Sounds like a simply solution. :-)

John

FredZ:

Not to sure why you would setup 18 zones within NZ simply because Fastway NZ doesn't have that many zones from any single shipping point.

Get a copy of their national shipping schedule from their head office in Napier.

I am currently doing a full rewrite of the postcodes I have because it has all the old postcodes. This won't be available for a while as I work full time and there is a substantial amount of code to go through. Once I have it done I will make it available.

Regards

Fred

Hi,
Is there a link available to download the fastway NZ script yet?
cheers

Hi everyone

Sorry for the delay in responding to this.

I have exported our NZ fastway table and made it available for download.

You can get it here.

I have added plain text to the head of the file so you may want to read what I have said.

Sorry but it only contains the old postcodes, but as I have said, I have just been to busy the change them over. If someone wants to change them over I will be happy enough to make the new codes available for download.

My direct email is in the file. Please don't all email me about the file, if you look at its structure it is all very plain and clear how it is all setup. I will try to help if you do manage to become very stuck, but it has been a long time since I did this and I haven't done another one since.

I hope it helps those wanting to get it all up and running.

Regards

Fred