[support] Ecommerce shipping/delivery rate question

[Saint-Genest Gwenael]

Chris McGinlay wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using ecommerce 5.x-3.4, with D5.3. I have a number of products, each with 
> a unique shipping/delivery charge.
> 
> How do you set up so that (for example) product A costs £5 to deliver and 
> product B costs £8 to deliver etc. 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Chris

Hi !

   To solve this, you can create a custom Shipping charge with
Flexicharge [1]. I think you can have many implementations for
this question.

One example :
 - Enable Flexicharge : this is a default ecommerce module
 - Add a new Flexicharge argument for your products :
    Into ecommerce/contrib/flexicharge/providers/shipping.inc
the function shipping_flexicharge_attributes() is used to define
arguments (like weight). Add a new custom argument like 'customtax' :
  $fields['customtax'] = array(
    '#type' => 'textfield',
    '#title' => t('Custom shipping Tax'),
    '#description' => t('The tax for this product', array()),
    '#default_value' => '',
  );
Now, you can specify for each product a value into this 'customtax'

  - Create a custom Flexicharge method
      Into ecommerce/contrib/flexicharge/providers/ rename
the default file'custom.inc.example' as 'custom.inc'.
The function general_custom_flexicharge_calculate() will be
used to compute total amout for you custom charge. You can implement
(for example) something like :
function general_custom_flexicharge_calculate(&$txn, $misc, $total) {
  switch ($misc->operator) {
    case FLEXICHARGE_CHARGE:
      $customtax_total = 0;
      foreach ((array)$txn->items as $item) {
        $customtax_total +=
$item->flexicharge_methods['shipping']['customtax'];
      }
      return $customtax_total;
   }
}

  - Create a new charge from Drupal admin interface
e-Commerce configuration > Flexicharge


  This is only a skeleton of answer, if this is not clear
i can send you files for this example.

Gwen

[1] An example if available for discount : http://drupal.org/node/135862

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