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Shipping Modules / Re: Different shipping options relating to location and weight
« on: April 13, 2020, 06:16:50 PM »Hi Tobynator,Hello Rich - thanks for that info. I am setting up 4 zones for North and South Island and urban and rural for each. I have now set up the zones in the locations - how do I tell the weight based shipping module to use the different zones? If I have the zone South Island Rural (SIR) would I write SIR=1:5.00,2:7.50 and then a semicolon to start the next zones pricing?
I'm in NZ too, so know where you're coming from - we seem to have particularly complex shipping options here with urban & rural, different islands etc. I had to use the weight-based shipping module, as mentioned by Basara. Yours might be different and will depend on number and type of products but to give you an idea, I created two locations in System/Localization/Locations, one for rural, one for urban. Then in Extension/Shipping turn on the "default_weight" module. In there, under Additional Settings, you can specify the pricing for each of those locations based on the unit of weight you've got set for the cart (somewhere under System/Settings). I set mine to Kgs, so under Additional Settings, I have 1:5.00,2:7.50 for urban - this means 1kg is charged $5, 2kgs is $7.50. For Rural I used 1:8.00,2:12.00. Then you specify the weight of each product in Catalog/Products. It might work out OK for your products but in my case I had to "make up" weights so that multiples of the product would still fit into the pricing structure for the cost bracket in Additional Settings (mentioned above). If you have a lot of products, you might need to use Excel first to help get all the pricing & weight options sorted. Cheers, Rich.