[ic] Extending a UPS Zone File above 150

[ACforSale Inc Sales Team]

> Here's the problem:
> I want to be able to extend our UPS Internal Lookup file past the 
> 150lbs mark, I have the data and have entered (up to 300lbs) into the 
> csv file, but when I check out goods above the 150 mark this shipping 
> option does not appear, (it works perfectly for orders up to 150lbs). 
> I have another quick fix shipping option that works on formulas for 
> weights above 150lbs and it shows in these cases, but I would prefer 
> to use the zone files.
>
> I would like the settings to allow for shipping weights up to 1000lbs 
> although we rarely ship above 600lbs on an individual order.
>
> Is there a limitation somewhere in IC that restricts the Internal UPS 
> lookup from going above 150 lbs and if so can it be over-ridden?
>
> Or is there a way of calculating shipping for each item in a cart 
> separately and then showing the total cost?
>
> Using IC 4.9.3. on cPanel (so accessing much of IC can be limited)

    First of all make sure you have read/write access to shipping.asc
and the associated rate table file. This may not be the case for a
cPanel hosted site.

    If I'm not mistaken all you need to do is modify the limit value in
shipping.asc here is just a snip-it not the whole thing:

upsg    UPS Ground      weight  0       150     u Ground

Change the 150 to something higher... 600 I guess, and
then make sure you have every pound 150 - 600 covered in the rate table.
Or at least an entry for every weight you'll need a match for. That I
think would be the Interchange part But does/would UPS, or whatever
carrier,  provide such a rate table ?

Jon
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Thanks Jon
I've used the UI Interface to setup the values for shipping but with
cPanel I can't read (or even view) shipping.asc but when I do changes to
shipping via the UI the shipping.asc file is updated so I'm assuming (a
dangerous thing I know) that the correct values are put into place.

BTW the rate values I'm using are a compilation of UPS and common
carrier rates as we decide on the carrier depending on shipping weights
and destinations and our tables are reasonably accurate.

If the above is the case could there be anywhere else that the 150 limit
is set that I can get at, remembering the limits of cPanel?

If anyone has an idea please let me know as at the moment I'm going to
try using a separate lookup with 151-300 and see if that works (the
logic being 150 lines rather than the number 1-150

Gerry