[ic] Bug with shipping + total cost?

[New Media E.M.S.]

At 09:28 AM 5/25/2004, you wrote:

>Hi,
>I have discovered something I think might be a bug?
>
>
>My Setup:
>===
>I have a few different shipmodes in the shipping.asc file, and depending 
>on what country a customer selects certain shipmodes (+ correct prices) 
>are displayed on the basket page on a drop down list for customer to 
>choose from.
>
>Only shipping country and shipping method are chosen on our basket page. 
>The idea being the customer can see a simple heads up of how much 
>everything costs before being confronted with crazy checkout form.
>
>
>A hypothetical example:
>
>country.txt
>--
>ACountry    ups,fedex
>--
>
>shipping.asc
>--
>ups    UPS             weight  0       0       e No items in basket
>ups    UPS             weight  1       1999    f 10.00
>ups    UPS             weight  2000    9999999 e Use Fedex instead
>fedex  Fedex           weight  0       0       e No items in basket
>fedex  Fedex           weight  1       9999999 f 20.00
>--
>
>Note: Ignore all tab separation and formatting, its just an example and 
>the db's work here.
>===
>
>
>
>The (Possible) Bug:
>===
>For example, the weight criterion was out of bounds for the first shipmode 
>(3000), i would like it to display only the second shipmode and the price 
>for that country (e.g Fedex: 20.00) on the basket page.
>
>This works fine.
>
>But:
>The [total-cost] tag returns the calculation of (subtotal+vat+shipping), 
>but for some reason it assumes shipping to be 0.00, i assume because it 
>looks at the first shipmode in the country db (ups) and sees 'e' (error), 
>instead of the only option available that has no error (Fedex: 20.00).
>
>So the calculation should be (subtotal+vat+20.00) instead of 
>(subtotal+vat+0.00), i think?
>
>Subsequently, going to the checkout page calculates the order total 
>correctly, but I was really wanting the basket page to do the price 
>calculation.
>===
>
>Any hints?
>Cheers.
>
>Sandy.

You could add some to display a message about this to the user:

[if type=!explicit compare="[shipping noformat=1]"]
         <font color=red>Please click 'Recalculate' to see your
         total with shipping charges added in.</font>
[/if]


... or something like this. Or if you want to get more ambitious you could 
add a calc at the top of the page to evaluate all shipmodes and apply the 
first one that produces an non-zero result.


- Ed


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