Special shipping case

Hi!

I have questions regarding my shipping plugins.

1. Question:
My shipping costs depend on weight only. So I have activated the eshop weight plugin and entered all Prices für all geozones which works fine. My special case: my shop should ship without insurance/tracking if the total goods price is BELOW 100 Euros, and always with insurace/tracking ABOVE.

How can I do this?

For weight shipping there is only a "Min Total" option. Do I need to set €100 there so the plugin is disabled above this amount and install a second weight plugin which get's the job after the first plugin is disabled? The sequence when the plugins are used is depending on the order id?

Another solution would be a new eshop_weight2 plugin with "max Total" which is active then over €100. In the plugin I found:

Replacing this and the corresponding XML entry for the min total paramter should do the job, or am i wrong?

2. Question:
I'm doing all the processing locally on my PC, so the only thing I get is the admins e-mail order notification with all needed data. Is there a way to include an id  (or something else) which represents the shipping costs so my software can choose the correct shipping type when getting the label from DHL? For example:
For Germany the shipping costs are as following: 1|1000;3.11|2000;4.54|5000;7.82|10000;10.92|20000:19.33|31500;24.37
So when shipping 5kg, the price is €7.82 ... and the id in my e-mail should be something like "1-2" (geozone 1, position 2). which could be inserted by [SHIPPING_TYPE_ID] or similar.
I think I must program this but may be there is an internal variable I can choose for?

Best regards,
Christoph
 

Hello Christoph,

Thank you for submitting the question here. I read your questions and default shipping plugins does not support all of that features. If you want to use them for your special case, I think you need to customize to the default weight shipping plugins / duplicated shipping plugins to meet your requirement.

Sincerely, Giang

Hi Giang,

Yes, you are right. I'm currently creating a more common and very flexible shipping plugin ("eshop_flexible") with rates with much more options:

Geozone_id|MinWeight|MaxWeight|MinTotal|MaxTotal|MaxLength|MaxWidth|MaxHeight|Cost|Shipping_id|LangKey

So every line represents one shipping rate.
An entry like "1|0|1000|0|100|300|0|0|3.11|9902|ESHOP_SHIPPING_LARGE_LETTER" will be a hit for "Geozone 1, weight from 0-1000g, 0-100 €, maximum length of 300mm" and return €3.11 shipping costs together with "my shipping id" for large letters in Germany 9902 and the language key. The shipping_id is then placed in my admin notify e-mail ("[SHIPPING_SHIPPING_ID]") so my local software can easily choose the correct label form DHL.

The first hit is choosen so the order in the rates area is important.
But this plugin is extremely flexible - so that plugin can be the only one for my shop.

If it is finished I can place it here - may be there are so others with the need of such a shipping plugin.

Best regards,
Christoph

Hello Christoph,

Thank you so much for that. I think it will be useful for some cases and some customers. It's great if you can sharing and explain detail about the plugin once you completed it.

Sincerely, Giang