| Zone Rates Shipping | Last Update: 10th June, 2005
Article ID: 232 |
- Introduction
- Zone Rates
- Enable Zones Method
- Tax Class
- Sort Order
- Module Weight Unit
- Zone 1 Countries
- Zone 1 Shipping Table
- Zone 1 Handling Fee
Introduction
In Zone Rates shipping, customers that are having an order delieverd to one of the locations specified have the shipping cost calculated according the the table specified. Zone Rates shipping is similar to the
Table Rates shipping method, but will be available to a select group of customers. Also, a choice between using the total weight or total price of the order is not an option, as it was in the Table Rates method. Rather, only the total weight is used in the calculation.
Zone Rates
Figure 1 shows the
Zone Rates listing page under the Admin>Modules>Shipping>Zone Rates>Edit section.
Figure 1. Zone Rates Shipping Module listing page under the Admin>Modules>Shipping>Zone Rates>Edit section.
Enable Zone Rates Shipping
Enable or disable this module with the true/false radio buttons. Note, setting the module to 'False' doesn't uninstall the module -- it only affects whether or not customers will be able to see Zone Rates shipping during checkout.
Tax Class
If selected, this will apply the selected tax class to the shipping cost before being shown to the customer.
Sort Order
The sort order field describes in what order the module will be presented to the customer during checkout. The sorting is done with the lowest number representing the top of the displayed list, except for a value of 0, which is put at the bottom.
Module Weight Unit
If the total weight of the order is being used to do the Table Rate calculation, this field applies the chosen weight type to the above order
Zone 1 Countries
If the customer is having an ordered delivered to one of the countries specified here, Zone Rates shipping will be available as an option during checkout.
Zone 1 Shipping Table
This table will be applied to either the total weight of the order to calculate a final shipping cost. However, there is a limit of 255 characters to this field. The default table of :
3:8.50,7:10.50,99:20.00
Could be expressed in a table form by weight:
Total Order size (weight) Shipping Price
0-3.00 = $8.50
3.01-7.00 = $10.50
7.01 and up Free = $20.00
Zone 1 Handling Fee
This is an extra field to add a separate handling charge to the final shipping cost. The handling fee is the same for the order, regardless of how many products were ordered.
