I've taken that Australia Post module that was created and made the updates suggested and it seems to be working. What I'm not happy with at the moment is the whole tax situation. Because Ubercart doesn't really work well with GST, I might add in another calculation that removes GST from the shipping. I'm almost 100% that Australia Post would return back a shipping cost including GST. I'm first trying to decide how to handle GST, so I can make a decision on what to do with GST in the Australia Post module. Anyway, when I get home, I will post it here so you can at least start having a look at it. I will make any updates you find, though I won't take credit for any of the code because it was all done by someone else. Though, as you said above, that person seems to have disappeared for awhile, and I need the module, so I'm willing to fix any bugs that come up.

Cheers,
Steph

Sorry guys. I was on holidays in Norway.

I've posted an update in the other thread: http://www.ubercart.org/comment/10071/Re-Awesome-work-Daniel

I'd appreciate any suggestions and improvements. Feel free to improve the code yourselves. I'm not a programmer by trade.

Maybe once a few people have tested it we can put it in the contributions area.

LOL @ Daniel, mate, you have nothing to say sorry for...
I am really impressed with your work mate, thanks so much for sharing....

Ivan, just follow the post Daniel sent...

Will download & test it. We used Virtuemart for another job, and had some custom work done on that, so will see if it needs to be adapted for this.

Let's keep this discussion going, great work all....!

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Good point Daniel, yup, VM uses:

Is there any point of having a minimum weight threshold, rather than just defining 50grams?. I don't know how Ubercart handles things like "subscription" type downloads, and I guess, since we are all keen to sell physical products, that's not really a concern.

Will setup and play when I get home...

Hope your holiday was good Daniel!

Have been playing with your Auspost module Daniel, it seems to work REALLY well, great work.

Am trying to fix a few more bugs (the Singapore & New Zealand select zone bug, and Australia only GST), and a few more things, but so far, looking good.

Thanks again mate, will keep playing =)

Aaah, brilliant Daniel...

The GST bit is annoying me a bit (IE, don't add GST to the total if the user is from another country), but this is another matter....

BTW, I really like your error checking. i tried to break/fool it, ie by getting price reference for a local delivery, then modifying my location to the UK & reviewing my order (glad to see this works sweet =)

Daniel, if I can offer you any design, in any way, please let me know, to say thanks for this. I am also going to Japan for a well earnt break in two weeks time (time to also meet some toy company reps =), so, when I get back, I'll PM u for your address, so I can send a little thank you as well =)

All the best mate!

I haven't played too much with the module, but I haven't had any issues so far. I originally started using your other module and made a couple updates myself, but have now gone back to the one you did because you had all the updates I put in.

GST has really been a sticking point for me for all my Australian projects. I think there does have to be an option to remove the GST from the shipping. I believe that AusPost does return the entire amount including GST. Luckily for the current project I'm working on, they don't want GST included in the price, so the tax system of Ubercart works fine, but for another project, I really have to figure out a good way of dealing with GST. How are you guys dealing with it? I am trying to come up with a module that allows the price in the database to be without tax so that it will work with any discount modules, etc. But, everywhere else the tax should show in the price, and then in the checkout, as a line item, it should just show the GST already included in the price. I keep getting stuck no matter what direction I look to get it to work. I am reaching a point where it looks like I'll have to go and almost completely copy parts of the current tax module into a new module to allow the tax to be calculated, but not actually added (again) to the price, but also be able to set using workflow ng when the tax should be shown or subtracted from the amount.

Anyway, any ideas, suggestions, etc?

Cheers,
Steph

Looking forward to it Daniel. it certainly is a hurdle...

I'm using the last posted AusPost module and it seems to be working ok, though the store hasn't gone live yet, so it hasn't been tested to heavily.

GST is still a sticking point for me. In reading other posts it seems like the only way to make it work 100% how it should be, core has to be modified and I'm not sure that's something the Ubercart team wants to do. The system just isn't built so that prices can be shown including tax and that the tax just shows as a value showing the tax included. I think there are a couple people who have looked at this and have modified core to be able to do it. Luckily with the store I'm using, they want to calculate the tax as it is done in the US, with the prices being without tax, and the tax being included in the end. That makes it easy for the tax to only be included if the person is in Australia, but if someone comes to me and wants the GST to show as included in the price, I'm going to be in trouble, haha.

Cheers,
Steph