evigmostad, do you have problems keeping the prices up to date? Or do you update them on a regular basis? Dave
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 5:35 PM, evigmostad <[email protected]> wrote: > We use 1) based on our boxes and average weight of items that go in > box. So small table (relatively). > > On Dec 30, 11:38 am, BoulderDave <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey guys, > > As we previously all agreed on, it takes about 1.5 seconds, for each > > shipping method you use, to get back results from the shipper. So if > > you have 3 methods (which to me doesn't seem like very many), your > > looking at 4.5 seconds to get prices. > > > > Last week I finally enabled the USPS and Fedex modules on our live > > site to see if we would notice a negative impact with the extra load > > time and within an hour we had two customers call complaining that the > > site was slow (referring to the checkout process), and a much higher > > cart abandonment rate. So I had to disabled the modules and go back > > to using the flat rate table. > > > > Not using some sort of dynamic shipping is not an option (says my > > boss, ha), and obviously the current load time is not an option. > > So, I wanted to see what you all thought about possible alternatives, > > what you would find useful, and perhaps I can build new modules that > > could be a great alternative for anybody needing to get quicker > > shipping rates. > > > > Some ideas I've thought of are: > > 1) Use shipping zones instead of zip codes and load all the rates into > > the database > > 2) Load all the shipping rates for each zip code into a database > > 3) Only request rates for one method at a time (the method the user > > has selected on the form) (I dont really like this idea, but it would > > be much quicker between each request/response obviously) > > > > What do you guys think? > > Thanks everyone > > Dave > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Satchmo users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en. > > -- Dave Brown CEO/Founder Rampframe.com - Action Sports Network -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en.
