Zone based shipping

Hey guys.. I'm developing an ecommerce site for our family bathroom company

We currently do deliveries around the north west in our shops van..

What I want to know is how I can setup the shipping zones, so that if an order is under a certain weight and in the local zone, it can be shipped via one courier.. if it's above that weight but still in the local zone, it's shipped via our van, if it's outside of the local zone and is a certain product/weight, it's shipped via another courier.

I image that it's quite fiddly, but I have the patience to start drilling through the PHP if some kind sole with give me a guiding hand.

Many thanks!
Joel

joelio wrote: Hey guys.. I'm developing an ecommerce site for our family bathroom company

We currently do deliveries around the north west in our shops van..

What I want to know is how I can setup the shipping zones, so that if an order is under a certain weight and in the local zone, it can be shipped via one courier.. if it's above that weight but still in the local zone, it's shipped via our van, if it's outside of the local zone and is a certain product/weight, it's shipped via another courier.

I image that it's quite fiddly, but I have the patience to start drilling through the PHP if some kind sole with give me a guiding hand.

Many thanks!
Joel

You need to set your zones up first.

Then goto the zone shipping extension and fill it in like this:

weight:cost,weight:cost

e.g. 5:20.00,10:25.00 etc..

How do you setup the Zones? I had previously uninstalled this module but I am trying it now, and it wont pickup any zones, I have added my Geo Zones, but shipping is always $0.00

tchemis wrote: How do you setup the Zones? I had previously uninstalled this module but I am trying it now, and it wont pickup any zones, I have added my Geo Zones, but shipping is always $0.00

I'm having trouble with this too. I managed to get the default UK one working, but if i add another one.. say 'International' it doesn't show up in the list. 

I'm quite confused about this too.. a little bit of docs wouldn't go amiss.. if someone would be so kind as to write a couple of paragraphs on this.

I just wanted to set up two geo zones - USA and Canda. So I changed UK to Canada and the other one to USA.
This pretty much disabled zones for me until I looked at database and found zone_to_geo_zone table.
As I understand this table lists geo zones and zones (in my case - US states or Canada provinces) or countries (in my case USA and Canada) assigned to each geo zone. There is no interface to do it from Admin.

EDIT: Appearently there is a place to assign countries to geo zones from Admin interface - you have to click on geo zone folder

By default there was only UK, Ireland and one more country (forgot which one, since I deleted it) assigned to 2 unique geo zones.
So I deleted one, and assigned to other two geo zones - country ids of USA and Canada respectively.

Now, when I enable Zone shipping - USA shows up with its rate assigned. Canada is still not there. So have to keep looking why both of them do not show up. My guess is - that only the one that customer filled up as shipping address shows up. Did not test it yet.

EDIT: yes, only geo zone that customer address is in shows up (if customer registered address in USA - only USA geo zone will show up in my case). I guess that is fine - but what is the point of having a selection option - if there is only one geo zone (and thus - one shipping rate) for that country?

Daniel wrote:

joelio wrote: Hey guys.. I'm developing an ecommerce site for our family bathroom company
e.g. 5:20.00,10:25.00 etc..

This some time works some time dont, I guess i am entering the weight wrongly. can you please tell me how the weight is to be entered.

thanks

Sorry this is working fine after I have added the values like this 1:25.00,2:40.00,3:60.00

thanks