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By Nephus on
Ok, I'm completely new with this Drupal thing. I'm sure there's a better place to post this question, but I'll be darned if I can figure out where that is, so bear with me.
Basically, I'm trying to set up an ecommerce site. I've been playing around a bit and have several issues I'm trying to sort out, but the main one revolves around ecommerce shipping. I installed the ecommerce module and have been playing around with it, and so far I'm quite impressed, but in all the tests I've ran, shipping is not calculated.
As I'm going through a dropshipper, I don't have any account with UPS to autocalculate shipping, and there are no options for the weight of the products. To top it off, I have a $2 handling charge per item from the drop shipper, and I really don't want to inflate product prices to include that.
So, what I really need is some basic shipping functionality where I can set estimated prices according to weight, and have the handling surcharge tacked onto that and displayed as a total shipping and handling charge. How on earth do I do that? I have some limited PHP programming experience, and although I'd rather not, I'd be willing to modify some module or another to hack in this functionality. Frankly, Drupal is so complicated that I'm not sure where to start poking.
So, any links to the right place to ask this, some tips on where I should try hacking this into it, or an instruction page or module I overlooked would be greatly appreciated.
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well, managed to get
well, managed to get flexicharge installed, and I'm doing my best to force it to do the $2 surcharge per item, but it's been a while since I've put on the programmer hat.
Still haven't found any leads on the whole ship weight thing.
Search for Basic Shipping
http://drupal.org/node/68363
Or
Basic Shipping for e-commerce?
http://drupal.org/node/70936
I have tried using BASIC SHIPPING and FLEXICHARGE thankx to the persons
BTW if you are not in the US, you have to edit both things:
Store.module - change the `States' to your country's states and areas, so that members can choose States from drop-down menu
Basic.inc - same about the states
*This if you want to set basic shipping as `FLAT RATE' for Region 1 (same country/region) and different rate for outside
Hmm, I think you've pointed
Hmm, I think you've pointed me into the right direction for the shipping, but it's going to be a bit before I get it where I'm happy with it. Since I'm redoing my whole site from scratch, I can just leave off the heavier items until I get weight based shipping sorted out.
I made a custom provider.inc for flexicharge last night, that although a bit hacky, seems to be working beautifully for my $2 handling fee per item. I might post it once I've cleaned up the code a bit.
Keep an eye on flexicharge
Keep an eye on flexicharge patches. There's a recent bug fix.
Also, I'm interested in custom charge providers. I'll be keen to commit the good ones.