[ic] Newbie, how to make FREE shipping default initial selection?

[Ed LaFrance]

At 01:12 AM 03/10/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>I've spent hours pouring over the (few) docs, and the extensive mailing
>list archives, but haven't quite found the answer.
>I want the usual shipping options to still show up in the pull down (UPS
>ground, 2 day, 1 day), but I also want FREE to show up as well, And on
>top of that, make that the default selection for anyone in the US.
>When I login as a customer and go to SUPPORT, Account Maintenance, the
>pull down list all four choices, but has the default as UPS Ground, even
>though I set the shipping default to FREE in the config.

This is probably due to UPS Ground having been previously saved as the 
default shipmode for that account in userdb. Did you try changing the 
shipmode to FREE on the account maintenance page, saving the change 
(clicking Update), then logging out / logging in?

>  At least from
>that page I can select FREE as an option, however:
>As soon as I go to make a purchase and click check out, the list that
>shows up for checkout.html page only lists the three choices (not FREE),
>what happened to the selection I had made before?
>The second problem is if a user doesn't want to login, then I want the
>default shipping option to be FREE shipping, but that is empty unless
>you put in an address and then hit recalculate, or if you don't do that,
>then there is no shipping calculation (kind of what I want, but a bit
>kludgy way for it to work out).

You may want to verify that you have this in your catalog.cfg

ValuesDefault   country      __SHIP_DEFAULT_COUNTRY__
ValuesDefault   mv_shipmode  __SHIP_DEFAULT_MODE__

and that SHIP_DEFAULT_COUNTRY and SHIP_DEFAULT_MODE are set to US and FREE, 
respectively.

- Ed L.

>It seems as though these should be easy to address, but I've played
>around with catalog.cfg, products/country.txt products/shipping.asc
>pages/ord/checkout.html all to no avail.
>Keep in mind I'm a systems person, not a programmer. What can I do to
>address these two issues? There's zero budget for any consulting.
>Any help is appreciated thanks.
>I'm running Interchange 4.8.3-1 not using any SQL db's, just the
>included files. I used the foundation demo as the template (with none
>for products/tools/etc).
>Thanks,
>-Art
>
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