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Fri, 04/17/2009 - 09:37
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Hi,

I'm looking for the ultimate shipping quotes solution (who ain't) Eye-wink.

I looked at several existing posibilities, and even created a few project specific ones based on taxonomies and customer country. (no, too hardcoded to release, sorry.)

The uc_tablequotes module comes close: http://drupal.org/project/uc_tablequote, but lacks any region based calculation.

Dispite my horror of anything related to Joomla, I'm amazed by Virtuemarts shipping quotes capabilities.
Have a look here: http://tutorials.ausweb.com.au/web/Tutorials/Joomla-FAQ/Add-shipping-rat... (video)
and here: http://www.virtuemart.com/documentation/User_Manual/Shipping_Modules.htm...

This is in my opinion as hot as it gets (not the interface, the functionality), and would be a perfect solution for calculating shipping quotes in Ubercart.

I'm posting this here to see if there are more people interested, please share your thoughts on this!

Cheers,

Kees

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Mon, 04/20/2009 - 11:40
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Re: Ultimate shipping quotes solution

Wow that is pretty nice

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Tue, 05/12/2009 - 06:29
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Re: Re: Ultimate shipping quotes solution

subscribing. thanks.

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Tue, 05/12/2009 - 10:49
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Re: Ultimate shipping quotes solution

I have actually found flat rate provides all the options I need to replicate the shipping options provided by Amazon in the UK. Looking at the Joomla link above this seems to offer less options than are available with flat rate.

The only tedious bit is selecting the countries each rate applies to and remembering to add a new country when installing a cif file.

David

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Sat, 08/29/2009 - 13:24
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Shipping methods/services by product

For a partial solution, I have created the Ubercart Product Quote module at http://drupal.org/project/uc_product_quote that allows one to specify which services/methods are available on a per product basis. I am looking for help testing and integration with other shipping quote modules.

Cheers,

Jon Antoine
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Fri, 11/20/2009 - 10:47
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Re: Ultimate shipping quotes solution

subscribing.

IMHO this can be done with the combination of "Conditional actions" (admin/store/ca) and flatrate/Shipping quote settings (admin/store/settings/quotes/methods/flatrate):

A new predicate could have these conditions (for example):
- Check an order's total weight (example: 4lbs or less)
AND
- Check an order's shipping country (US, Canada etc.)

and so on, and so on.

With this I've made my Shipping rates:
- Order is less than €20,- and goes to Austria = 5,- Euro shipping cost
- Order is over €20,- and goes to Austria = 0,- Euro shipping cost
Also made this for EU and International shipping.

Is this flexible enought?

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Tue, 11/24/2009 - 03:26
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cyaneo wrote: ....Is this
cyaneo wrote:

....Is this flexible enought?

It is flexible but very tedious. Should be able to be put in a table format.

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Wed, 12/02/2009 - 08:01
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Re: cyaneo wrote: ....Is this

Ah - ok, you're right.

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Fri, 06/18/2010 - 05:15
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Shipping quota module additions

Actually this builds upon available shipping quotes modules (called "shipper") and adds an extra layer which gives you the option of additions on calculated shipping quotes.

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