Shipping Options And Googlebase And XML And Linking Requests
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:57 am
1. I am requesting for shipping, being able to have these 3 shipping options working at the same time:
1.UPS Real Time Rates for certain products
2. Free Shipping for certain products
3. Individual shipping rates for certain products
I sell a lot of products and sometimes each product may have to have a different shipping rate.
If this has been enabled already, I can't get it to work.
Also don't want a list of options showing that they could order the item for free or pay UPS real time rates it has to just show whatever shipping option that was enabled for that product.
And VIP, choose which shipping option right from that new products page in admin.
I know that there are extensions out there to do something like this, but it should be standard and not have to go in to another module to enable the shipping options for a specific product.
2. Google products or google base whatever they call it these days, I know 9/22/11 they are going to be enforcing new rules or standards for the product uploads, has this been lookee in to & will the new google rules be in a update soon for that ?
3. Also when you take the google base url & enter it in to a browser & it makes the xml file, is there anyway to improve this because if there a wrong symbol in the say, product name, like for example "#" you get an error message & the xml file gets rejected by google, so can the googlebase file somehow parse these things where if there is a number sign like "#" it automatically gets deleted, so it can run that xml file & not be rejected by google.
I get these huge data feeds from companies with thousands of prdts & if you don't go through every prdt looking for symbols that xml rejects it takes forever to go through the datafeed to change or take out the symbols but if these symbols can be parsed & changed when the google base file is run, that would be awesome & very efficient !!
4. Also a text box in the new prdt page to link to an external image on another server, cause also these companies that give you these large datafeeds, they have a column with a link to the prdt image on their server, so being able to have this also, would be a great feature.
This is my wish list for the next opencart update or whenever possible, if some of these things have been addressed already, please post the link.
Thanks
1.UPS Real Time Rates for certain products
2. Free Shipping for certain products
3. Individual shipping rates for certain products
I sell a lot of products and sometimes each product may have to have a different shipping rate.
If this has been enabled already, I can't get it to work.
Also don't want a list of options showing that they could order the item for free or pay UPS real time rates it has to just show whatever shipping option that was enabled for that product.
And VIP, choose which shipping option right from that new products page in admin.
I know that there are extensions out there to do something like this, but it should be standard and not have to go in to another module to enable the shipping options for a specific product.
2. Google products or google base whatever they call it these days, I know 9/22/11 they are going to be enforcing new rules or standards for the product uploads, has this been lookee in to & will the new google rules be in a update soon for that ?
3. Also when you take the google base url & enter it in to a browser & it makes the xml file, is there anyway to improve this because if there a wrong symbol in the say, product name, like for example "#" you get an error message & the xml file gets rejected by google, so can the googlebase file somehow parse these things where if there is a number sign like "#" it automatically gets deleted, so it can run that xml file & not be rejected by google.
I get these huge data feeds from companies with thousands of prdts & if you don't go through every prdt looking for symbols that xml rejects it takes forever to go through the datafeed to change or take out the symbols but if these symbols can be parsed & changed when the google base file is run, that would be awesome & very efficient !!
4. Also a text box in the new prdt page to link to an external image on another server, cause also these companies that give you these large datafeeds, they have a column with a link to the prdt image on their server, so being able to have this also, would be a great feature.
This is my wish list for the next opencart update or whenever possible, if some of these things have been addressed already, please post the link.
Thanks