Minimum order value by zone

[DavidCP]

I wondered if anyone had come up with working scenario similar to this. We wish to put a minimum order value on particular shipping zones, or it could be countries. At the moment the minimum order value seems to be site wide in settings or you can potentially change it so that it is for customer accounts. As you can probably tell this is Brexit related.

For example
UK customers no minimum order value
Ruritania customers £50 minimum order value

Thank you David

[Mike Hughes]

Hi David,

I can think of a few ways of doing this but they all (or almost all) need some customising.

1. Use Javascript or similar to enable the checkout to progress to the next stage based on the shipping zone and order value. Simple enough to do but needs manually setting up and would stop customers who have disabled javascript from being able to order. It would also be quite easy to bypass by someone who knew what they were doing as they could look at the code and manually enter the link to the next stage of checkout.

2. By modifying the perl scripts to do the shipping zone / order value checking. More complicated but would work with or without javascript and be harder to get around. It would have to be re-entered after every Sellerdeck update.

3. An alternative that might work depending on your shipping settings would be to just charge a shipping 'Supplement' on orders under a certain value for the zones in question. For example I use weights as a proxy for value and I could set it up so that UK Customers pay a standard £1.95 shipping but Ruritania customers would pay £21.95 say for orders under £50 and then the postage drops to £1.95 for orders over £50 in value. Not what you asked for but might be an option.

Mike

[DavidCP]

thanks Mike,

Appreciate your reply, 1 and 2 are way beyond me I think. This is what is so frustrating with Brexit, trying to break what works for UK customers to fit in overseas orders which are now much more complicated. I already use Weight and Alternative weight for different zones so I don't have a lot of wiggle room there.