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I just tried to use this module on a site using fedex and flat rate shipping modules. It will give me the flat rate price but gets an error on the fedex quote.

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I'm trying to integrate your module into a client's site (first drupal/ubercart site so please forgive my ignorance in advance!) and the flat rate quote returns 0.00 (the base flat-rate price for the method), so it's not picking up on the product's flat-rate shipping price and returns an unspecified error for the UPS quote...

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!

Im getting the same thing. Fedex and UPS not working. I figured out that the flat rate shipping uses the base rate entered on the /admin/store/settings/quotes/methods/flatrate page. If you set base rate to 0 and use a custom price on the product page it ignores the custom price and puts 0. Hopefully this can be worked out soon so i can finally launch my site. lol

First off, make sure the UPS works with the Combine Shipping DISABLED. If the UPS isn't working without combine shipping, it isn't going to work with it. (Getting UPS, USPS, FedEx, etc. working in the first place can sometimes be rather "fun"...)

As far as the flat rate goes, if you want to specify the flat rate at the product level, make sure the "/admin/store/settings/quotes/methods/flatrate" Flatrate method is set to 0.00 for both the base price & the default price.

(Base price = starting price for all flatrate, if the Base is 5.00 and you tell a product to have a 10.00 flat fee, the total at checkout will be 15.00)
(Default Price = If the default price is 10.00, all products will inherit the flatrate shipping cost of 10.00 unless it is changed at the product level)
If you already knew this, sorry... You mentioned drupal / ubercart being a new experience...

I'm also assuming you went into the "Shipping Method" field for product content type and specified the key names for the flat rate options you have enabled? It gives I think two default flat rates out of the box... I usually just delete those and create two of my own called:

Free Shipping
Flat Rate Shipping

Those make a more sense to me than the default ones.

Both shipping methods did work before enabling your contributed module. I had just literally got the client's UPS API key certified for production use, actually (that was fun...).

The flatrate method's base rate and default rates are both set to 0.00 with the product that I'm currently testing having a flatrate shipping value of 75.00. With the module disabled, it returns $75.00 as expected, however with the flatrate test product and a "standard" UPS product in the cart, the following is returned:

Flat Rate Shipping: $0.00

There were problems getting a shipping quote. Please verify the delivery and product information and try again. If this does not resolve the issue, please call in to complete your order.

No worries, I'm an old developer but I'm pretty new to the drupal/ubercart way of things so I'm taking the self-inflicted role of newbie for this case. Sometimes it's the little mundane things that cause all of the problems, so I definitely do not mind rehashing that a few times in order to make sure this isn't the case!

Shipping method cck field has been amended following your input, but the behavior persists. I've tried a few combinations of the key|value settings and also reset everything following the README info, with no luck.

I had a friend of mine look through the environment with me and everything looks good, however he mentioned that we may have a module conflict somewhere and I'm not even sure where to begin on that little adventure.

Can you think of anything else that would possibly cause this behavior with the quotes? I will continue to go through the module code to see if I can figure something out on my end.

Thanks for your help!

One thing that "might" be an issue is to have more than one shipping option for UPS. I know the module will work with UPS & Flatrate because I have a live production site running them both... However, the ONLY UPS shipment option I have enabled is "UPS Ground". I don't give an option for next day air, 3 day etc. Can you try doing just UPS Ground and see if it will take? I'm curious from a troubleshooting standpoint as that is one thing that we (myself and the programmer) never tested when creating the module. (Not sure if this is an issue with FedEx yet...)

Also, are you having any issues with putting only a flatrate product into the cart and it not pulling the rate specified at the product? joshpodcast let me in on his site and sure enough, you can set the flat rate of the product to $10.00 but when you checkout, it is $0.00 (the default rate) Just wanting to see if you confirm this.

I can vouch for the flatrate issue here as well. My flatrate test product is set to 75.00 for flatrate with a base and default rate of 0.00 for that method "Flat Rate Shipping - Promotion". When the quote is generated on the first page of checkout, the value of $0.00 is added to the order for that method. This happens with "any flatrate" and "Flat Rate Shipping - Promotion" in every combination that I've tried as values for the cck field.

It also seems like it fails to grab a UPS quote regardless of options in the method. I'm not sure what I'm missing here but I will continue pushing through until I find the cause of the issue.

Thanks!

Ive spent a lot of time trying to figure this out and im still having the issues mentioned above.. Im trying to get a hold of the developer now and pay to have this fixed. When and if its fixed I will give it back to the community so everyone will be able to use this since I think this could help a lot of people out.

For those of you having issues with the flatrate not pulling the quote from the product page, please try the updated uc_combine_shipping-1.0 version and test it out. The flatrate, UPS and FedEx appear to be working now.

I just updated to the dev version and its working! Thank you!

The dev patch worked for me as well. Thanks for your help, sir!

I uploaded a new copy of the 1.0 release which should address the issues noticed from changes made in updating to UC 2.6.

shipping is not being added to the total on the review order page when i have this module eneabled.

Please help

I have the following below, enabled uc_combine, selected all to remove user selection from checkout and add all shipping quotes.

Case Shipment (if select case attribute) Should be combined with options below
Ontario and Quebec FREE (Over $60)
All other Provinces FREE (Over $100)
Ontario and Quebec Flat Rate (Less than $60)
All other Provinces Flat Rate (Less than $100)

Tested above without uc_combine and it works but gives user options to select.

Problem #1 - It is only showing case shipment total.

Problem #2 - I have another selection that I do not want to be combined (Pick Up $0.00) that the user should be able to select and removes all options above.

Please help not sure what how to configure properly for Problem #1 and totally clueless for Problem #2

Thanks for your help!

DGrey,

I'm assuming that you have some custom conditional actions setup for the "Over $60, over $100 etc." flat rates?

#1) What are your flat rate methods?
#2) What are the conditions / condition groups for each rate method?
#3) Which "Shipping Method" do you have enabled for the product content type? I am guessing at this point you should ONLY have "any flat rate method" enabled for what you are trying to do.

DGrey,

If you are not using any other shipping methods (IE Canada Post, UPS, FedEx etc.) then you don't really need the Combine Shipping module to accomplish what you are trying to do. In a sandbox, I was able to create three different flat rate methods, "Flat Rate", "Free" and "Customer Pickup". Using some conditional actions on each I was able to do what you were trying to do. The ONLY problem I ran into, was the inability to weight the "Customer Pickup". For some reason, it would always put it at the top, regardless of weighting the conditional action for it... : ( I haven't messed with flat rates much but I am very surprised there isn't a way to weight the order of how they show up to the customer...

Hope that helps and if you are curious on my conditional actions, let me know and I'll try to explain what I did.

This is a really useful module. I'm thinking of using this as a solution to separate shipments / preorders.
We sells magazines/books and event tickets. We'd like people who are buying an event ticket to also buy a book.
Event tickets ship a couple of weeks before the show but the book would be dispatched as soon as possible. With the combined shipping module the event ticket shipping is charged as an additional cost to the book solving that problem.

The only issue I have now is that you can only select 1 shipping method for a product with combined shipping. This causes a problem when you have different shipping rates for (in our case) UK and the Rest of the World.

I can change the cck field to be a multiple selection but this doesnt really work, it allows you to select them but it doesnt get honored as I suppose it's never been though of as an option. Any clues on how to implement this, I'm digging in the code now...

Philsward,
I have a site configured with 2 product types. For one of them I have the flat shipping rates applied. But I have the problem with flat rates and UPS shipping rates. When I try to checkout the item which only uses the flat rates, in the review page it shows zero shipping cost. When I try to checkout a cart with items which works with UPS and FLAT RATE, in the review it shows ok.
I have Ubercart 6.x-2.6 and the UC_Combine_Shipping downloaded today. What could be wrong? I haven't modify any CA (there is any condition to the shipping CA).
Thanks,
Rodrigo

davidarthur,

What are you using for your shipping methods? I am guessing flat rate? As far as the "choose rate" goes, you "should" be able to setup some conditional actions that will do what you are trying to accomplish. In doing some testing with DGrey's issue of having some "over x amount for these two areas, free, over y amount everywhere else free" etc, I was able to use some conditional actions to do what he was needing done. It took some playing, but worked out pretty slick.

I think in your situation, you will want to set the CCK Shipping Method field to "Any Flat Rate", then setup four flat rate items: Ticket Shipping UK, Book Shipping UK, Ticket Shipping World, Book Shipping World. Set the conditional action to charge the UK price if it's in the UK and the "world" price if it's outside the UK.

Kinda rough, but off the top of my head it sounds pretty good : )

rprieto,

The issue you are having was part of a known issue introduced with Ubercart 2.7. Are you running Ubercart 2.6 or 2.7? (It should have worked fine with 2.6...)

Anywho, try the updated UC Combine Shipping 1.3 and see if that fixes it. Let me know if it still isn't working...

I'm having a slight issue using combine shipping. First off, we are using 2 flat rates: $0.00 for free shipping on certain products which we are calling Free Shipping, and various amounts for other products which we are calling Flat Rate Shipping). When choosing Flat Rate Shipping for a product, the shipping show properly on the initial checkout page. However, on the "Review Order" page, 2 line items show up for shipping (Flat Rate Shipping and Shipping Total). This in itself is not too bad, albeit a little redundant. The problem is both line items are being added into the subtotal. The final total is added up correctly, but it's a little confusing to users. I am using the most current version of uc_combine_shipping (1.3) and Ubercart 2.4, but I've tested it on 2.6 and 2.7 as well with the same results. If I disable uc_combine_shipping and manually choosing the Flat Rate option, this doesn't occur. Any ideas what might be going on? Thanks.

Are there any plans to port combine shipping to Ubercart 3?

There is a functioning version for Drupal 7, however it was tweaked by the company sponsoring it, to accommodate their needs. It isn't as universal as the D6 version, but works... I have the update, just haven't had time to get it uploaded.

Over the summer of 2012, I expect to migrate some of my D6 websites to D7 and UC3. If you want the same functionality of D6, I suggest waiting until then. Otherwise, you can try out the D7 version to see if it suits your needs. These will ultimately have two different version numbers (i.e. 1.x -> 2.x) because of the difference in how they work.

Stay tuned and I'll try to get the D7 version up this week.

Thanks for the fast reply

I'm glad work is still being done on this module to move it into D7 / UC3

I was originally using D7 when I ran into the show stopping problem of not being able to combine shipping w/ UC3

The solution I went with was downgrading to D6 & UC2. I must say the UC combine shipping module saved the project

However, I would prefer to do the project w/ D7 to avoid an update in a few months, and essentially avoid additional costs for the client. The only thing stopping me from D7 is this one issue

If you are able to upload the D7 version it would be much appreciated. Otherwise, I'm ok with waiting till summer 2012, but would like to avoid this if possible

Thanks for spearheading this useful module

Cheers

I contacted the developer who is working on the D7 UC3 release and his recommendation at this point is to hold out on releasing a D7 version because UC3 is "constantly changing". He said he was able to get it working with an old dev version, but things have been changing so much that he is reluctant to post anything yet. He would like to wait until UC3 has a stable release (which according to the UC maintainers, won't be until the required modules release stable i.e. views, rules etc.) before releasing a production version of UC Combine Shipping

@redcam, what are your thoughts on this? Do you still want a D7 version, knowing that updating UC3 might break the combine shipping? Or are you still good with waiting until (hopefully the latest of) this summer?

Hey philsward,

Thanks for looking into this. It seems the best option at the moment is to use D6 UC2 until something more stable is out.

Hopefully by summer things will be worked out. Until then im going to continue using D6

Thanks again

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Phil, first off thanks for your reply before and sorry for the delay in replying...

Your solution to setup up conditional shipping methods can handle most scenarios.

I'm currently hitting a scenario where combined shipping can't work and I cant see a solution other than changing the way this module works.
Example:

A Book has 2 shipping methods. 1 price for local and 1 price for international. These are selected by shipping country... and the node cck field is set to any shipping method, only 1 option would ever need to be presented to the user.
A Ticket has 2 shipping methods available to everyone, 1 for insured delivery and 1 cheaper option for uninsured delivery of tickets. The user will always have the choice of 2 options.

If the user has a book and a ticket in their basket on the checkout page they'll get the option of choosing the book shipping price, or the 2 ticket shipping prices. 3 radio buttons.
Combined shipping is grouping anything with Any shipping method together into 1 radio button group when in reality it should have separate radio button groups for each of the products.

Does this make sense? I hope i've explained clearly enough. I'm looking at the code to see a way of implementing this but you may have some suggestions that might help or be interested in developing this...

BTW have you though about taking this module to drupal.org so we can work from git and have a better versioning system?

Many Thanks,
David

@davidarthur
From what I can tell, you "should" be able to do everything you are needing to do, through conditional actions. While I personally am not a big fan of conditional actions (seems like they take forever to setup right) I think this method is going to be the best choice in what you are trying to do. I setup some mock conditional actions once, I don't remember if it was for your situation or someone else's and was able to show/hide the shipping methods based on different criteria. It took me a little while to get it right, but It does work.

Have you already tried this approach?

I'm using conditional actions to show/hide international delivery options but in this instance we really do want the user to choose themselves whether or not they want insured or uninsured tickets. The problem is that when giving them this choice, they also get a 3rd radio option for the book delivery type (be it local, or international) because its shipping is set to Any and cannot be bound to one type in cck... because the pricing varies by destination. Does that make sense? It's difficult to explain