Frank C.

Thank you, Noodleman. I had posted awhile ago that I use to be able to select a state from a drop down list but since the problems began I was unable to do that anymore. Now that you fixed the zones issue I noticed that I can once again select the states from a list, so I know for a fact you fixed yet another issue since the blow up. I know for a fact that I had Illinois in the store setup and I don't know how it would have been missing. But its good that you setup the shopping cart to use our store state until the customer fills in their info. Since the freight is not based on a customers ship to address, within the Continental US, it works. Thank you again for your efforts. Frank

I noticed looking at your module that a zone was not selected, which I am sure is correct given the fact that that info is being populated by the given module. Will I decided to select the US and then the shopping cart no longer saw your module as a shipping option, so it appears that it may have something to do with the zones and CubeCart not liking the United States zone. I don't remember where you said you had to enter a zone numeric equivalent at, could that have something to do with this? I tested the order as if a person entered their address info and the freight popped up. I remember you saying earlier that having a difference between logging in and not logging in. Well I don't know what you would call what I did but I never logged in I just entered the fake customer data prior to checking out. I thought a user would be considered logged in or registered only if you completed the transaction. Before you were able to see the freight before filling out the customer info, since the freight is calculated the same regardless of where the customer is ordering from within the continental US. I think that is a good idea and would prevent potential customers from abandoning the shopping cart after they have entered all their info only to be discouraged by the now populated shipping charges. Or the potential customer may even proceed on with the order under the assumption that the shipping was free only to be surprised to find out, after filling out their info, that it is not which may very well cause them to abandon the shopping cart and leave thinking we tried to sneak one in on them. Frank

Noodleman, I just tried using enabling only the flat rate module in the manage plugin section and with only that module enabled I receive the error once again that the shopping cart does not see any available shipping options. We also tried it on two different computers with the same results. I also noticed in the drop down showing the freight of zero it says "Per Product Shipping Service". I don't know where it is pulling that info from but I thought it should reflect the module being used. Regardless what module is being used, as defined under the product, it still shows the same description. That may very well be because if the three modules are not working properly we are getting that description etc. I also tried it with the by weight and item with the same results. I even tried enabling the three modules along with your module, like you had earlier when I asked you if I should uncheck the three modules, but it still didn't work. I wondering if it doesn't have something to do with my web hosting company. Its frustrating because we really found and fix what I felt were the root causes of my previous issues. We got to be running out of things to fix. Frank

Noodleman, you won't believe this but I walked away from this project for the day once we resolved this issue today. I waited until this evening around 9PM CST US and I was showing off our site and had someone go to the Medisoft and TotalMD software offerings and add one at a time to the shopping cart, because they are flat rate, and they got a zero for freight again. We tried it using both Google Chrome and Firefox with the same result. Again it was all working for us earlier today and without any changes being made because i wasn't even around for the rest of the day it now stopped working again. I even went in and tried to by weight and I still get a zero for shipping. I also went into CubeCart and checked all the settings just to make sure and everything looks to be happy there. I don't get it. Thanks Frank

I am using Firefox as my browser does that matter? Do I have to be using Chrome or Internet Explorer?

Greetings again, Noodleman, I spoke too soon. I thought everything was working well because I tested each of the modules without using your plugin and each worked as they should. Once I activated your module I thought everything was working fine because all the products i worked on over the past couple of days all used the flat rate module through your plug in. When I tried editing another product type that ships using the by weight module, I could not save the changes. It acts like it saved but when you save and reload or save and go back in to take a look, it reverts back to flat rate or use the default billing radial button. So I can save flat rate or use shipping default but not the by weight or by item. To further clarify I found that only the flat rate and use the default shipping options in your module work because they are both utilize the same flat rate module. If I try to change the default shipping method to either of the by weight or by item, from within your module, it won't save my selection. Again when it comes to the product setup, I can only choose flat rate or use shipping default, which again within your module is the flat rate shipping module. I need your assistance ASAP so I can get our website up and running ASAP. Thanks again.

Update!!!!!!!!! I had to walk away from this yesterday because I was going brain dead. I picked it up again today and I finally figured it out. There was more editing required beyond those presented by Noodleman, but I finally figured it out and all appears to be working right now using the three newly created modules and the module by Noodleman to link them all to the products for different shipping options per product. Noodleman I have a question about the purchase of your "Link products". I visited your website and saw the module available for $19.00, is that US dollars, and can I purchase it from your website because it is cheaper that going through the marketplace of CubeCart? Thanks to all for your assistance with my recent projects. I am trying to get our website up and running for online purchases and it is taking a lot of work and patience to work my way through setting up freight options, credit card processing, and product modification and setup. Thanks again, Frank

Another update. I looked at all of the newly cloned All In One Shipping data tables and they all look great. What I mean is the data tables, structure, settings etc. all look the same and when I run the utilities for checking them, defrag, analyze etc. I don't receive any error messages. The name of the new data tables are as follows: CubeCart_shipping_zones_Flat_Rate (which is case sensitive to the name of the existing data table) CubeCart_shipping_rates_Flat_Rate (which is case sensitive to the name of the existing data table) CubeCart_shipping_zones_By_Weight (which is case sensitive to the name of the existing data table) CubeCart_shipping_rates_By_Weight (which is case sensitive to the name of the existing data table) CubeCart_shipping_zones_By_Number_of_Items (which is case sensitive to the name of the existing data table) CubeCart_shipping_rates_By_Number_of_Items (which is case sensitive to the name of the existing data table) I can also see data that I input from within Cube Cart to each of the data tables. So that all looks good. It appears that problem with with the search and replace edits to the files within the given module. I HOPE I FOUND ALL THE FILES ETC TO PERFORM THE SEARCH AND REPLACE ON. The only files I found to edit were the "shipping.class.php " and "index.inc.php" files. I also edited the "config.xml" file to change the name "All_In_One_Shipping" to <name><![CDATA[Flat_Rate]]></name> <name><![CDATA[By_Weight]]></name> <name><![CDATA[By_Number_of_Items]]></name> The search and replace edits to the shipping.class.php are as follows: FOR THE FLAT RATE: $this->_all_zones = $this->_db->select ('CubeCart_shipping_zones_Flat_Rate', false, false, 'sort_order, id'); $this->_all_rates = $this->_db->select ('CubeCart_shipping_rates_Flat_Rate', false, false, 'zone_id, id'); $this->_debug_lines = array(); } FOR THE BY WEIGHT $this->_all_zones = $this->_db->select ('CubeCart_shipping_zones_By_Weight', false, false, 'sort_order, id'); $this->_all_rates = $this->_db->select ('CubeCart_shipping_rates_By_Weight', false, false, 'zone_id, id'); $this->_debug_lines = array(); } FOR THE BY_NUMBER_OF_ITEMS $this->_all_zones = $this->_db->select ('CubeCart_shipping_zones_By_Number_of_Items', false, false, 'sort_order, id'); $this->_all_rates = $this->_db->select ('CubeCart_shipping_rates_By_Number_of_Items', false, false, 'zone_id, id'); $this->_debug_lines = array(); } I performed the same find and replace routine on the Index.inc.php show I did not show the details like above but the data table entries were the same as above. Hope this helps to expedite your diagnostics of why the three newly created modules are not working in Cube Cart. Thank you, Frank

Update, when I removed the three cloned and renamed plugins the Link to products now sees the All in One Shipping module. So now it looks like I need Noodleman to guide me through the correct way of cloning etc. so I can have multiple All In One Shipping plug ins to accommodate my flat rate, per item and by weight plugins. Frank

I got a copy of the " Link products to specific shipping services - PLUGIN" back again but nothing is working still. Frank

Noodleman I think part of the issue maybe that when I clicked on the documentation tab of the download it tells me the instructions are contained in the module under the install guide which I did not find the first time I did this install and I still cant find it. Frank

I even deleted the "Link to product" and recopied the plugin and I still cannot save the changes so that info must be stored someplace else. I could really use some help here Noodleman. Frank When I removed and copied the Link to product module the " Link products to specific shipping services - PLUGIN" did not come back with it. Woops.

I just noticed that I cannot change and save the default shipping service under the "Link products" module. It is stuck on one of the three modules that are not working by themselves, so I'm thinking that may have something to do with presenting zero's at checkout. I going over the three copies modules, everything looks good. I can save settings, rates, and zones independent of each other and everything in the config files match the database and is case sensitive etc. I had to have missed something in the copy and pasteing I hear you bsmither, that is why I am hopeing Noodleman.to help me out. Frank

I did a bit of research and testing. First off I uploaded the original "All In One Shipping" module and had it be the only module activated and when I went to check out the freight amount was there. Then I deactivated the "All In One Shipping" module and only activated the " Link products to specific shipping services - PLUGIN" and the " Link products to specific shipping services - SHIPPING MODULE " modules by Noodleman, when I went to check out the shipping amount was once again $0.00. I then reactivate the "All In One Shipping" module and deactivated the "Link products" modules and the freight amount once again re-appeared. I then tested each of the three modules (Flat_Rate, By_Weight, and By_Item) that I copied from the "All In One Shipping" and none of them work with or without the "Link products" module. So for some reason none of the three copied modules work and the "Link products" module does not bring over the information from the "All In One Shipping" module. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Frank

Noodleman I should clarify that 95% of my shipping is done via dropship from our vendors, so I would like for the freight to be generic in nature so if a client selects FedEx and my vendor ships UPS, there would be no confusion or concern by our clients that they had a bait and switch on the shipping. So the shipping will be setup to match what we are charged to ship a given order. Hope that makes sense. I am having issue with your product and the three cloned shipping modules. Your module did create a new tab under the products so I can pick and choose which shipping service I want to link to a given product, pretty cool. It all looked good until I tried to setup the Zones. It would not save and gave me errors. Eventually I re-enabled the original Shipping module, which had the default Shipping zones and rates,along with the three new cloned modules. I was then able to save the zones as if the original is required to configure the zones. Well I thought all was good because before I was unable to save all the settings in each of the three modules independent of each other. Once the original module was added back into the mix I was able to add the zones to each of the three cloned modules which then showed up under the other modules as zero's. To clarify, the three modules now show three zones with only one amount related to a given module while the zones for the other two modules shows zero's. To clarify the three modules are called Flat rate, By Weight, By Item. if I look at the zones in the Flat Rate module the is $20 shows up under Flat rate while the By Weight and By Item are zero's If I look under the other modules they show the respective amounts under there given zone with the other two zones being zero. So it looked like things were working until I tried using a fake order. When ordering the freight is zero with no ability to change it and when filling out the customer data, when selecting the state, before it use to popup with a list of states but now there is no list. I then noticed that under your module, I was unable to select and save the zone. I can select the United States, but when I save it ignores the save. I was doing this in an attempt to diagnose what was going on. Do you have any idea's as to what I am missing here? Thank you Frank

I think I have it figured out. I was over thinking the issue and once I had a better look at things it appears that I have it working for now. I will have to do some further testing and I will reach back out to you if I need your help. Thank you Bsmither and Noodleman. Frank

An update, It appears that I did clone the modules and edited the shipping.class.php because now I can save individual info in the rate section but when I try to save anything to the zone section it tells me that it cannot be updated. Frank

I just realized that I don't think I cloned the CC shipping rates and zones correctly. Instructions on how to do so would be greatly appreciated as well. Frank

Got it Bsmither, I made the changes you suggested and now my modules show the way I intended. Per Noodleman's instruction I did duplicate the CubeCart shipping rate and zone databases along with editing a file called Shipping.class.php to reflect the names of the newly created databases but it does not reflect my changes. I probably edited the wrong file. When I make a change in any one of the modules it still reflects the changes in all three. Frank

I am not finding the location of the CubeCart_shipping_zones folder. And when you say clone, do you mean copy or is there a utility with a clone command? Frank

Greetings, I appreciate your offer to extend the trail period and I will take you up on your offer to provide me with an extended time key. Given the fact that you know more about what I am trying to accomplish in shipping, I would appreciate your direction as how to accomplish this. I am not bound to the All In One Shipping plugin by any means. Frank

Noodleman I downloaded your plugin for its seven day trial. I read this post which mentioned "You can then create multiple versions of the same modules", I also downloaded and installed the "All in One Shipping" plugin. I then made three copies of the same plugin renaming to Flat Rate, By Weight, By number of items. When I go into the admin manage plugins they are all the same name and it does not appear that I can rename them for easy identification. Is there a way to do that? Thank you

Great, I am revamping our website to make it easier for customers to order from us. We sell services, xray film, software, and other misc products. As I stated earlier I already plugged in the 7 day trial to use the " Link CubeCart Products to Specific Shipping Services / Modules £25.99" which will give me until Monday to figure out how it works. The software sales can ship using a flat rate calculated per order not per item. The xray film has weight to each box of 100ct and there are 5 boxes per case. Those would have to be calculated by weight. I requested of our vendor to provide us with a per box and per case weights for the various film sizes so that we can plug that info into the product details. Rather that go on with what I tried etc. I will just differ to your experience to offer what you feel is a best case scenario of how to setup our shipping per item so that one item can ship flat rate, and another can ship by weight on the total order not multiplying by item which could inflate the shipping. From what I see about the plug in needs to have listed shipping providers like FedEx, USPS, and UPS. I was hoping to be able to setup our own shippers and then we could configure them the way we want and not have to download and install shipping plug ins like All In One Shipping USPS Shipping Service Name, because it only allows you to select installed shipping plugins. I hope I am making sense here. Frank