[ic] Oversized shipping surcharge

kerry at basicq.com kerry at basicq.com
Fri Jan 8 21:00:31 UTC 2010


> On Friday 08 January 2010 6:53:13 am kerry at basicq.com wrote:
>> would like to be able to id the items that I know fall into, and have an
>> extra surcharge placed on them like the 7.50 currently is. I have it
>> setup
>> now as an option which works ok, except I have to enter as a value
>> greater
>> than amount needed because of the way I have my discount on all items
>> setup.
>
> An adder in shipping.asc is a good idea, but would require modification to
> every shipping method. The way I've done this before is to use SpecialSub
> shipping_callout. This feature allows you to build a GlobalSub that takes
> the existing shipping amount, checks the cart for applicable items, then
> adds the fee. Whatever customizations you need will automatically apply to
> every shipping method. You can use the $mode variable below to customize
> the
> behavior for certain modes if needed. For example (untested catalog.cfg
> addition):
>
> ###################################################################
> # A perly true value in 'products.oversized' field adds UPS fee.
> AutoModifier oversized
>
> Variable UPS_OVERSIZED_FEE 7.50
>
> Sub custom_shipping <<EOS
> sub {
>     my ($final, $mode, $opt, $o) = @_;
>
>     my $oversized_qty = 0;
>     for my $item (@$Items) {
>         $oversized_qty += $item->{quantity} if $item->{oversized};
>     }
>     $final += $oversized_qty * $Variable->{UPS_OVERSIZED_FEE};
>
>     return $final;
> }
> EOS
>
> SpecialSub shipping_callout custom_shipping
> ###################################################################
>
Would this add the say $7.50 in your example to the already in use
shipping I am using? And would it add it to that amount in checkout?

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> Daniel Browning
> End Point Corporation
> http://www.endpoint.com/
>
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