On 5/8/03 11:20 pm, in article
3f2fca82$0$46011$65c69314@mercury.nildram.net, "RG" <Me@NotTellingYa.com>
wrote:

Have a look at www.oscommerce.com. They have some very clever ways of doing
this. Maybe you could use it "for inspiration"

Andy

I have developed a shopping cart and have hit a bit of a brick wall.
I need to build in some sort of admin for handling shipping costs.
Has anyone ever given this any real thought, only I need to build a simple
system for handling it.
Any feedback is very welcome

TIA
RG

Try doing it in a table method based on total price. You could set different
bands that have different P&P costs and it wouldn't be hard to define the
payments

Khalid

Thanks for your input, it is appreciated.
The problem I have is that I need to build this system with mulitiple
clients in mind, and needless to say, they will all want to calculate it
differnetly.
I need to somehow build an admin facility that keeps everyone happy.
Joe Bloggs Printing Machinery will no doubt want to do it by weight X
location whilst Foo Bar CD's will only want to do it by amount X location

This is going to do my head in me thinks, but thanks for the input.
RG

On 6/8/03 11:34 pm, in article
3f311f60$0$46007$65c69314@mercury.nildram.net, "RG" <Me@NotTellingYa.com>
wrote:

Is it just me or is your clock out or something? You seem to appear at the
top with a post time of 11.34pm, which throw everything out with the order
of threads.

On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 18:16:59 +0000 (UTC), Andy Jacobs
<andy@redcatmedia.net> wrote:

He's got the wrong time zone set:

Which comes up as 00:34:49 BST on the 7th (what you have must be GMT),
and ought to mean he is somewhere in the US.

Adjustable by going to Control Panel/Date & Time/Time Zone.

--
Don Aitken

On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:34:49 -0700, "RG" <Me@NotTellingYa.com> wrote:

DYM Zone, Inclusive_weight & Cost_per_additional_weight_unit?

Channel Islands are OK as you can put them as separate countries
(not UK mainland). But, are you going to be adding Northern Ireland
and "the Scottish islands" as separate countries too? - shipping tends
to cost more there.

OK, except for "special", over-size or very heavy items that will
incur additional shipping charges that could vary depending upon the
destination.

Quite a few possibilities, depending upon your clients. But, if you
are already implementing international shipping, then some may be
worth considering:

What about "Standard", "Next Day", "Saturday", "AM", etc. delivery
options? Including the option to limit available shipping options
depending upon the destination country.

VAT handling on shipping charges for "Delivered Goods" [1], which
can mean that a store selling zero-rated goods should not charge VAT
on (some) shipping charges.

Flat rate charges, which may have to be pro-rata'ed in the case
above.

Tiered shipping charges based on order values, e.g. 0-100GBP=10GBP,
101-200GBP=15GBP, 201+GBP=20GBP.

Additional charges for split deliveries.

Handling charges for orders below a minimum order value.


[1] A very specific U.K. Customs & Excise definition which can apply
to an on-line only business.

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RG wrote:
I haven't checked, but it seems to me that this algo should be provided by
the courier companies, with well defined parameters of course

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Just for the record, I am going to add 2 tables to the database:
Country, Zone
Zone, Weight, Cost.

Then I'm going to add a field to the product table:
Weight
In regards to the packaging, I think a standard cost will be enough for most
carts.


Then do the calculation:
Get the total weight zone cost and add the packaging cost.

How does this sound?
Anything I have missed?

TIA
RG

Thanks for the Time Zone tip,
thats been bugging me for ages now.
RG


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