Urgent: Shipping rates

Hi,

I urgently need assistance with this. My shop is setup to have a flat rate of £5 delivery charge for UK GeoZones but the courier my company uses has an extra cost to shipping depending on if they are located in scottish highlands, islands, northern island, southern ireland, isle of man, isle of wight, channel isles of scilly isles which are all charged at £12.

How can I set one flat shipping rate up at £5 and another at £12?

Thanks!!

Ok here goes....

First off you need to rethink your Countries (in System > Localisation > Countries). I have England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Rep of Ireland, Scottish Mainland, Scottish Highlands (and then you can have Isle of Man etc as well). Then when you go into zones you allocate the relevant counties into the relevant country.

Then in GeoZones split these into 2 (one for the £5 areas, and one for the £12 regions).

In flat rate shipping create options to force each geozone into the correct shipping cost.

When someone creates an account/uses guest checkout and selects the correct country the shipping should be correctly allocated.

It has been a while since I set mine up - but that sounds about right. If it isn't doing what it should/doesn't make sense then shout and I'll try and recreate some geozones on my test site.

HTH

Thanks for your reply!

How do you force the flat rate shipping to force a cost to the geozones? im using 1.5.1.3 and theres only an option to do one cost for per geozone not multiples?

Thanks!

Ahh... I see what you mean.

I haven't actually used flat rate shipping - I use weight-based and that creates an option for each geozone which is then selected when the customer checks out.

It might be easiest to use weight based shipping but just configure each geozone to have weight from 0-9999999kg (or something similar) to be the correct cost for shipping:

ie England 999999,5
Highlands 999999,12

Make sense? This affectively makes a flat rate shipping fee for every concievable weight (-ish)

brilliant thank you:)!

Does anyone has an updated list of counties to Cities list for the UK ?