Thanks Dan, I was initially considering some weight calculation scheme along the lines of the Australia Post Postage Calculator at www.austpost.com.au. Then I received an e-mail from Aus-Post; they have a delivery rate calculator "for merchants selling on the Internet", that you need to register for at www.edeliver.com.au. It claims to "integrate with all popular Java-compliant eCommerce merchant packages for example Microsoft, IBM and Netscape". I've gone through the registration and I'm still waiting to see what it involves. To be honest, I foresee that probably being more headache than it's worth and you may have brought me back to a more manageable and straightforward solution. By the way one problem I found with Freetrade was it's State field in the shipping/billing form which includes no means of manually entering a state that isn't in the drop-down selection. I noticed on your site that you've added an "Other" option, however, where does the customer then enter their actual state/province? For this reason I decided to get rid of the drop-down menu altogether and leave as a text field. Anyway, it's good to see someone else using this in Australia. Nick Dan Ross wrote: > Lab:2 wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm currently setting up a store in Australia using Freetrade and before I >> begin I thought I'd ask if anyone else is or has done so? >> >> If so how did they approach the shipping set-up? I'm looking into working >> Australia Post shipping costs into the system but it's looking to be a bit >> of a fiddle. >> >> With thanks, >> >> Nick Lo >> >> By the way the client is already pretty impressed with the system. (they've >> been using Miva Merchant up until now...not much fun!) >> >> ---------------------- >> Lab:2 Design Unit >> URL: www.lab2.com.au >> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> ---------------------- >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Site: http://www.working-dogs.com/freetrade/ >> Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Simply pass the valid feilds onto the ShippingByTotal() function in the > SET_SHIPPING_ALL action. ie. $Country_Code = $shipAddress["CountryCode"]; > ShippingByTotal(etc, $ship_Method, $Country_Code); > and deal with them using the function below. If you change the default method > from Standard & Express to one more you will need a third method. ie. "3". > You can repeat the process for other Countries too. > ie. elseif($Country == "US" || $Country == "MX") and so on. > > > function ShippingByTotal($Total, $Method, $Country) > { > if($Country == "AU") { > if($Method == "1") { > if($Total <= 0.00) { $Shipping = 0.00; } > elseif($Total <= 35.00) { $Shipping = 4.00; } > elseif($Total <= 150.00) { $Shipping = 7.00; } > elseif($Total <= 300.00) { $Shipping = 14.00; } > else { $Shipping = $Total * 0.046; } > } elseif($Method == "2") { > if($Total <= 0.00) { $Shipping = 0.00; } > elseif($Total <= 35.00) { $Shipping = 6.00; } > elseif($Total <= 100.00) { $Shipping = 8.50; } > elseif($Total <= 200.00) { $Shipping = 17.00; } > else { $Shipping = $Total * 0.085; } > } > } else { > if($Method == "1") { > if($Total <= 0.00) { $Shipping = 0.00; } > elseif($Total <= 35.00) { $Shipping = 16.50; } > elseif($Total <= 100.00) { $Shipping = 28.50; } > elseif($Total <= 200.00) { $Shipping = 52.00; } > else { $Shipping = $Total * 0.26; } > } elseif($Method == "2") { > if($Total <= 0.00) { $Shipping = 0.00; } > elseif($Total <= 35.00) { $Shipping = 47.00; } > elseif($Total <= 100.00) { $Shipping = 59.00; } > elseif($Total <= 200.00) { $Shipping = 80.00; } > else { $Shipping = $Total * 0.40; } > } > } > return($Shipping); > } > > easy hay! > > -- > --- Daniel Rama Ross ---- ,-_;\ ------- NATIO Pty. Ltd. -------- > ph (61-3) 9415 99 11 / \ 6 Paterson Street Abbotsford > fax (61-3) 9415 99 22 \_,-._/ Melbourne VIC 3101 Australia > ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- v --- http://www.natio.com.au/ --- ------------------------------------------------------------ To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Site: http://www.working-dogs.com/freetrade/ Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
