shipping plug in ?

I have the same problem. I have not found a way to do this. All I did was increase my shipping amounts enough to hopefully cover extra boxes. I have enough extra built in to the shipping to cover those times when I don't charge enough.

Yes, that line adds up all the weights and creates a subweight.

Not gonna work though. What your talking about it taking multiple trips to the shipper for each package. First, its going to take forever even for just 5 items....like 15-20seconds forever just to get the shipping numbers. Secondly, its not really how most folks ship. Most companies are putting as many things into one box as they can.....for economical reasons.

Why are you trying to do this? Perhaps that would help us understand what your trying to do.

It looks like I will have to find a way to do this buy learning how to code VB script and ASP pages. I ordered 2 books on coding ASP and VB script. I also found I had tools in frontpage that will let be code vb script. Time will tell. Untill then I will have to keep to selling the smaller stuff.

LW

wscharen wrote: Lonewolf, Problem is that I have purchased the UPS plug-in and there is no way to get it back out of the code without starting over (this is what I have been told).

You don't have to start completely over. Just one page. If you replace the shipping2.asp/aspx with a brand new version from a brand new salescart web,viola, real-time shipping is removed. It takes about 5 seconds to do that.

Modifying the code so that you get a shipping cost per item "separately" and then adding them up is not a difficult programming problem. However, this is the real problem. Each trip to FedEx, UPS, or USPS physically takes anywhere from 2-7 seconds on average. It takes real time, to bottle up a trans, XML it to UPS, have UPS unbundle it, approve it, rate it, and respond. I'm sure even with one trip, you can see that on some occassions getting the shipping rate may happen nearly instantly and other times take what seems like a good 10 seconds. Now multiple that time by 10 products to 10 different locations and you have a major time problem. So your talking about a technical limitation of time with pulling shipping rates the way you describe. The only feasible way I can imagine this could work reasonably is after the customer querys the shipping engine is for the computer checkout to tell them to go take a coffee break and come back and hopefully by then, we should know what the shipping is going to cost.

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If you look at shipping2.asp, the call to the shipping plugin is a simple include. If you programmatically modify the subweight before each call to that routine, and call it once for each item, you will get what you want 'cept you will need to go back through the array and add up all of the shipping to be one big gigantic shipping cost.

The cost of shipping 5 items, each with a weight of 2lbs from 5 different locations is going to be so expensive compared to a total weight of 10 lbs from one location. Its hard to believe that a customer would pay the kind of shipping cost your going to come up with like this ???

I tried what you said below but it didn't work. If anything it made things worse. Now I am getting blank orders. Thanks for trying.   


You don't have to start completely over. Just one page. If you replace the shipping2.asp/aspx with a brand new version from a brand new salescart web,viola, real-time shipping is removed. It takes about 5 seconds to do that.