(solved) How do i add diff shipping zones in?

Hi there

Can anyone please help? I'm selling from The Netherlands and want to add three different zones in for shipping, example...

1 - 3 items The Netherlands = blah blah cost
1 - 3 items Europe = blah blah
1 - 3 items worldwide = blah blah

Any ideas please?

Thanks in advance

You can use Item-Based Shipping for rates like that, and give each rate its own geo zone(s), which you set up in System > Localisation > Geo Zones.

The extension includes an "All Other Zones" option, so you can just create a geo zone for the Netherlands and one for Europe.

Thanks Jonathan for the response.

Is there no other way something similar can be done within the OpenCart environment?

Like most people I am working on a shoestring budget

There is no built-in way to set shipping quantities by number of items in the cart. You might be able to get away with setting the weight of each product to 1, then setting up weight brackets in Weight Based Shipping like:

3:5.00, 6:10.00, 9:15.00, etc.

which would charge 5.00 for up to 3 items, 10.00 for 4-6 items, etc.

Thanks Jonathan.

I have loaded the weighting module on and it works out fine.

thanks again

Hi Jonathan,

You were very helpful with this answer to my query before but I have one more thing to run by you if its ok?

I'm currently using the Quantity Based Shipping module and have had a couple of problems with shipping.

I ship items to Inland, Europe, Rest Of The World - so effectively these are my 3 Geo Zones. However I read some advice on here which said to set-up a geo zone for every country that you send out to.

While this makes sense could I just go in to System - Localisation - Geo Zone and create these 3 Geo Zones above and then under each Geo Zone add a country? Is this better than creating a separate Geo Zone for every country?

Thanks for any further advice you can give.

Winter

Are you using my Item-Based Shipping extension? If so, you should just need to create two geo zones:

1. Inland (with whatever areas that covers)
2. Europe (with its associated countries)

You can then use those two checkboxes and the "All Other Zones" checkbox to send to those three areas.

Hi Jonathan,

I'm using the Quantity Based Shipping. So I create the Geo Zone and then by going in and editing that I can add the countries that I want to fall under that zone.

Example - Geo Zone created as European and then within that Geo Zone I effectively create "sub" Geo Zones adding all the countries that I want to fall under this category?

Is that right or not?

Gr,Winter

Yes, that's how you create geo zones, so it sounds like they're set up correctly. I can't say what's wrong with the extension if it's not mine -- I used to have one called Quantity-Based Shipping, but that's now Item-Based Shipping. If that's the one you're using, I recommend upgrading to the latest version.

If it's not, then you should contact the developer of the extension you are using, as it could be a bug in their extension.