Just to clearify, this module by itself will not allow me to add a shipping option to Drupal Commerce, right? Is there anything right now that will allow me to sell shippable items?

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googletorp commented
Status: Active » Fixed

You need to do some integration to commerce_shipping which should be done in a custom module. The aim of this module is to simplify this, as you only need to

* Define your shipping method.
* Create the logic that calculates the shipping price

You can do more than this, but this is what is required to get something functional.

The example module that is created shows how this can be done.

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juc1 commented
Status: Fixed » Active

@ googletorp or anyone

Sorry but I am confused. Do I need to edit the files of this module and then re-upload it as a new module?

thanks

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googletorp commented

@Juc1 you need to create a new module. You could use the example module as a starting point, since it is a working example of how a module creating a shipping module could look like. The module is create as a documentation and to allow anyways to test commerce_shipping without actually having a shipping method defined themselves.

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googletorp commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Marking this as fixed for now.

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juc1 commented

@ googletorp, I don't know how to create a module so I guess I can't use http://drupal.org/project/commerce.

I am just wondering is this a temporary situation, I mean will there eventually be a finished shipping module for Commerce and if so is there any time scale?

Thanks

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googletorp commented

@Juc1 I don't plan for commerce_shipping module to be a install and configure type of module, but instead be and API module like commerce_payment. There could be an endless amount of shipping modules that integrate with this one and provide the kind of functionality that you ask for.

There is nothing stopping developers from doing this right now. One thing that makes this complicated though, is that commerce hasn't quite figure out how to handle physical products (weight and volume), which most certainly would effect shipping prices.

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juc1 commented

@ googletorp, ok the situation is more clear to me now, thanks for your help.

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sorensong commented

Yeah, thanks for the clarification. Very interesting situation with Commerce/physical products! I hope something surfaces soon. :)

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googletorp commented

Since there have been a request for some out of the box shipping option, I have made a simple flat rate shipping method for in dev which works with commerce beta-4. It's still very basic, and wont work well for multiple currencies yet. But will improve it when I have the time.

Flat rate shipping is simple and is probably the best we can do for now out of the box, but it allows non developers to get shipping functionality that can cover simple needs.

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juc1 commented

@googletorp, thank you!

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.