Shipping Classes

[calmncomfy]

I already have 3 UK zone shipping classes for royal Mail 1st, 2nd & Special Delivery.

I just tried to add a courier option too, which only covers the UK mainland, I found the following problems:

1) Online, if the customer reaches the weight where the courier option is cheapest, this automatically flashes up so any customers in NI or channel islands won't know what the cost is to them until they reach the checkout phase. It might alienate them & lose potential orders.

2) Offline, I could only get 3 dropdown shipping options: Courier, 1st class & 2nd Class (Special delivery had disappeared) If I wanted special delivery, I had to complete the offline order then go back & change the shipping option later. this is relevant in case someone in northern Ireland etc. wants a special delivery & wants to know the postage options quickly over the phone.

Does anyone know how to:

1) Let people view all possible shipping option costs in the view basket (so they don't have to go to the checkout to get them)

2) Get all 4 options on the offline ordering dropdown menu.

[Bruce]

Colin,

It will not be possible to show the shipping options on the view cart page, that would involve a major script change. You can however offer all the shipping options by making them a set of radio buttons so all will be visable. This is in the Advanced Users Guide, page 65..

In Actinic, you can access all the HTML used within the checkout. Most of it is within the templates (Act_Order00.html to Act_Order04.html). However, some key elements are within 'Design | Text'. The most important of these is the drop-down list used to offer payment methods to your customers.
To find the relevant section of Design | Text:
1.Go to 'Design | Text', click 'Go to' and go to prompt Phase: -1 and ID: 1951.
You will highlight the following section:

<SELECT NAME='PAYMENT METHOD' ..             <SELECT NAME='PAYMENT METHOD' ..

The highlighted line, and the three lines below it, contains the HTML used to build the payment-method drop-down list in the checkout. To change it to something else (in this case a list of radio buttons) you will need to do the following:
1)In the first line, delete <SELECT NAME='PAYMENTMETHOD' SIZE='1'>
2)In the second line, replace <OPTION VALUE='%s'>%s with
<INPUT TYPE='RADIO' NAME='PAYMENTMETHOD' VALUE='%s'>%s<BR>
3)In the third line, delete </SELECT>
4)In the fourth line replace <OPTION SELECTED VALUE='%s'>%s with
<INPUT TYPE='RADIO' NAME='PAYMENTMETHOD' VALUE='%s' CHECKED>%s<BR>