Postage fees and setup on e-commerce website

[mboon]

Can anyone shed some light on how this is setup? We are currently using the Zen Cart for selling goods online.

Do we need to speak to someone like Royalmail/Parcel Force and arrange for some code to be added to our site so it automaticly adjusts the postage prices? Or do we have options on the actualy website itself?


Think this is my second post so a hello to all as well :)

[Steve2507]

You decide on the postage you want to charge customers and then add it to your site.

RM will charge depending on weight and size, you have to decide whether or not you pass the entire cost on to the customer.

[masonuk]

I worked for a company before that uses ZenCart and they had a problem with postage at the time(2 years ago now) in that the software would only let one charge be possible. You may need to employ a web developer to code this in for you, if it is still not a part of ZenCart yet. This is not difficult to program and a developer would not charge you too much! :)

[mboon]

I dont think they have updated it :( I had a look yesterday and couldnt find anything to add in other prices, just the base rate :(

We have the chap who set the site up looking today so hopefully that will bring back soem clues

[jimbotri]

Yes you can , Under module/shipping , you need to configure the 'table' method. Can not remember what it is called in the out of the box version as I have reamed mine to Royal Mail.

you can set prices by weight , if you have added weights against all products. or by value.

The syntax is as below.
if the shopping cart value is less than £20 shipping is £3.50,
between that and £50 it is $4.50
then anything over that is free .

20:3.50,50:4.50,10000:0.00


you can break this up as much as you want . You can also add zones but I have not got that fancy yet as we only ship to the UK.

Also we have added a flat rate special delivery option , so you can add multiple methods of shipping.

Search the zencart forum , I get most of my hints from there

Cheers
James