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Hi guys,

I want to set up shipping so items are free in the UK but cost a little to ship to Europe and the rest of the world. So when they checkout, they will be given there relevant shipping price to there location in the world.

Eg.. 1 scarf

£0.00 to UK
£1.30 to France
£1.50 to USA

Is there a way of doing this? I know about the geo zone but you cant add shipping pricing to them as far as i can see. If not tis the a mod to make this happen.. Thanks in advance

Assuming you can use a weight-based formula for your shipping charges, you need to set up three Geo Zones:

1. UK
2. France
3. USA

and then input the correct rate formulas for each. For the UK, if everything is free it would be something like "999999:0". For the others, you'd do something like "1:1.30, 2:2.60," etc.

Thanks for that. My shipping is dependant on weight though can this method be used by any other means?

I'm not sure what you're asking. The weight-based module is meant for shipping dependent on weight. Enter rates like I described above:

1:1.30, 2:2.60, 3:3.90, etc.

This would charge £1.30 up to 1 kg, £2.60 for 1-2 kg, £3.90 for 2-3 kg, etc. (Or whatever your weight class is instead of kg.)

Why wouldn't this work for you?

I sell sunglasses and the weight of each sunglass is not the issue.. its the shipping cost itself. Shipping them in the uk doesnt cost much but abroad it costs more for the same weight, so i need a system that is not weight dependent but location dependent. Hope that makes more sense

You still want to use the weight based shipping module.

Simply create a geo zone for every country you post to and enter 99999:£

So, create geo zone France, set shipping to 999999:2.5
Create geo zone spain, set shipping to 99999:3.10
create geo zone Germany, set shipping to 99999:2.95

etc, etc.

a weight of 99999 is essential an unlimited weight which kind of makes it like a flat rate charge to the diffent countries. The advantage of doing it like this is that if you do start to sell anything heavier then the you only need to change the shipping rates - all the countries have already been set up.

Ok thanks so much guys.. getting it now lol

Can i ask, If i create a geo zone called "Europe" and put all European countries in it. Do i put 99999:1.50 to charge them all £1.50?

Thanks again

Raintopia wrote:Can i ask, If i create a geo zone called "Europe" and put all European countries in it. Do i put 99999:1.50 to charge them all £1.50?

Yes, that's correct !

Can I hijack your thread ? I have another shipping Price scenario ...

The articles proposed are lightweight... images like photo's, stickers, posters, ...
Shipping costs therefore are mostly dependant on article size...

Commonly used packing is :
- std envelope
- A4 size envelope
- 30 cm cardboard roll
- 75 cm cardboard roll

My issue here is that several items can fit in the same packing...
The biggest required box in most cases can easily contain a few different items & the weight of the box (roll) would still be more than the items themselves...

This combined with several shipping zones (and obviously cost) is a bit challenging... And since I'm located in Belgium and there is no Bpost module I'm a bit stuck...

Anybody has ideas on how to tackle this one ?

OK, I spent way too much time om this but managed to get something workeable by combining and modifying 2 existing extensions...
It's primitive but it works, that's all I need...
Now I hope they will keep working on the new OpenCart versions...