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Ups product dimensions and dropships

Submitted by alien73 on Wed, 08/13/2008 - 18:17
alien73

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Depending on what type of shop your setting up the UPS product dimensions fields can narrow down the price dead on, but if your a dropship company selling 1000's of products, knowing the product box dimensions is just not going to happen.

It would be nice to see a checkbox in ubercart admin to turn this feature on or off.

For now you can simply comment it out.

Line # 89 in ubercart/shipping/uc_ups.module

//if ($form_values['ups']['pkg_type'] == '02' && (empty($form_values['length']) || empty($form_values['width']) || empty($form_values['height']))) {
//form_set_error('base][dimensions', t('Dimensions are required for custom packaging.'));
   //}

Note: you will still have to add customer supplied package for UPS when you add your products... Now UPS will show the right prices without the guess work.

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permalink #1 Thu, 08/14/2008 - 14:13
Lyle

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I thought for sure that UPS required dimensions for any customer supplied packages. I'm sure it threw errors when I was testing it. I checked, and I don't think there are any default values sneaking in if there aren't any numbers entered in the form. Did they change their policy on me without me knowing?

permalink #2 Thu, 08/14/2008 - 16:47
alien73

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 Joined: 11/10/2007
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Were using UPS on our oscommerce site without product dimensions.. It just pin points the costs down to the cent but not needed.

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