Hi Everyone,
In the quest to stop orders over 30.00 GBP from being placed without the
appropriate shipping insurance, I've decided that I need to use a shipping
method that first looks at the subtotal of a cart AND its weight before
showing the options to the customer.
I already have 2 shipping methods (STANDARD and NEXTDAY), both based on
weight, and wondered what's the best way to extend them to include the
subtotal in the calculation.
The checkout page should offer the shipping methods as per the following
simple pseudo code:
If subtotal <= 30.00
show/use uninsured shipping based on cart weight (STANDARD)
show the insured shipping as an option as it doubles up as a next
day delivery (NEXTDAY)
If subtotal 30.00
show/use insured shipping based on cart weight (NEXTDAY) only
endif
The shipmodes value for the country concerned in the ****RY table is
currently "STANDARD NEXTDAY".
I'm thinking I should alter that to "NEWMETHD NEXTDAY" and create a new
"wrapper method" called NEWMETHD that checks the subtotal before chaining
to the STANDARD method (if under 30 GBP) to get the final cost based on the
cart's weight.
I've had a good read of the online docs
and
where an example of chained shipping is given, but I'm still a bit confused
about how to properly apply it to my circumstances. However, Mike does
comment that it's a mostly undocumented feature :(
I think I could just add the first 2 lines below to my shipping.asc and
make the above country table change to make it all work?
NEWMETHD Standard Shipping [subtotal
noformat=1] 0 0 e Nothing in your cart to ship!
NEWMETHD Standard Shipping [subtotal
noformat=1] 1 30 m >>STANDARD
STANDARD Standard Shipping weight 0 0 e Nothing
in your cart to ship!
STANDARD Standard Shipping weight 1 100 0.42
STANDARD Standard Shipping weight 100 150 0.60
<truncated list>
STANDARD Standard Shipping weight 2000 9999999 e Your cart
is too heavy!
Does anyone see any potential problems doing this?
Many thanks
Mark
Eros Shop
vwe internet ltd
P BX 1067
SLUGH
SL1 7YA
UK
Shop - http://www.eros-shop.co.uk
EMail - info (AT) eros-shop (DOT) co.uk
Tel - 0870 284 3369
Fax - 0870 284 4469
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