Default or Sort Shipping Options - Please help

[Ms Holly]

So I've worked out how to remove the automatic sort of product options (thanks Estelle) but what I can't work out what I need to do to order them in a way that I want - $8 Flat Rate First, $0 Pick Up (free shipping) second. Or at a mimimum has Flat Rate Shipping as the default (like I can choose ad default with payment options)

I tried renaming the options but they still come up with the free shipping first and the other shipping options after. I don't really need all the extra options that the one mod I have seen offers in terms of shipping. I just need to be able to sort my shipping options so that customers don't just breeze through and forget to pick the correct shipping option - is there any other options?

I've seen that most of the questions on the forum about this are unanswered does that mean there isn't an answer.

If you want to take a look at what I am talking about the website is

www.birthingstyle.com.au

Your help is most appreciated.

[bsmither]

Here's what I see in the code (/includes/content/cart.inc.php near line 814 // calculate shipping):

* all the enabled shipping modules are retrieved from the database in an unspecified, or default, order.

* in CC 4.4.3 (maybe other versions), the shipping choices are sorted lowest cost to highest cost.

One could probably stop the sorting by cost. One could sort the query results by the folder name.

But as the list of shipping choices comes from the database, the list is in the chronological order in which they were first enabled. So, if you want to hack about the Modules table in the database, you can get to a place where you can re-enable the shipping choices in the necessary chronological order that you want them to appear in the list.